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The following posts are filed under: Streets & Roads.
Walk[drive] a mile in someone else’s shoes[tyres]
In Episode 2 of The Traffic Jam, the car-disliking Bryan Crump eyeballs his prejudices and walks a mile in some strange shoes. They’re the steel-cap boots of someone for whom the van or ute feels as essential as a limb: a tradie.
Read More“Three bedrooms, one bathroom, close to amenities, kids live longer”
Imagine if you could look at real estate ads and see this. In a suburban borough of London, it’s real: healthy streets changes (appallingly controversial at the time) are benefiting real people.
Read Moree-Scooters, dockless bikes: safety under siege!
Have YOU been passed at speed by someone on a scooter or an Onzo bike? Are you worried about the LATEST INVASION threatening children, the old people, and law-abiding citizenry going about their business on footpaths?
Read MoreOpen Streets? Neat!
When was the last time you got to experience Wellington streets truly open to the people? Graduation parade? Cuba Dupa? Thorndon Fair? THIS SUNDAY we’ve got a one-off chance to experience the magic of moving about our glorious city without the metal boxes that are normally king of the kerbs.
Read MoreRoad Rage – Part 2
In the second part of her rhapsody on road rage, guest poster Becs Tetley talks balancing out the bullying behaviour…
Read MoreRoad Rage – Part 1
Guest poster Becs Tetley is bothered by bullishness on the roads and wonders if we could all just cool it in our cars.
Read MoreStarting to get it right: Island Bay and the South
The Island Bay Cycleway’s influence on Wellington transport thinking, and public discourse, is really significant. (It helped give birth to Talk Wellington!) In an issue space that’s been rife with reckons, civic activation, politicising, good intentions, cockups and conspiracies, it’s an otter relief to know it’s really coming right.
Read MoreBack to reality: school dropoff
Four days since the school holidays ended, and already they’re a distant memory. Back in the morning battles of the school dropoff, guest poster Ben wonders again if there isn’t a better way…
Read MoreOn(zO) yer bike! Yikes!
With Freddie Mercury’s voice singing “I want to ride my bicycle” in her head, TW’s project manager Kate goes for a spin. Or does she?
Read MoreThe Kingdom of the Machines
If you could ask an alien looking down at Wellington from outer space (via a translator, obviously), “which things here are in charge of this place?” what do you think they’d answer?
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