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The following posts are filed under: Streets & Roads.
The Low Cost of Ending the High Cost of Free Parking
Worldwide, what would you say is the single biggest thing that gets in the way of making streets better for people? Surely it’s cost? Maybe poor public engagement? Nope – it’s street parking. And it’s really, really hard to change. Stephen Davis of City Beautiful outlines how we’ve enshrined sacred cow status around storing your…
Read MoreSafe Cycling in the CBD
Talk Wellington was passing the time on Facebook (I mean, who doesn’t?) and came across a thread on Vic Deals…
Read MoreTax into Transport: the next three years’ National Land Transport funding
On Friday the Transport Minister announced the 2018-21 funding from the National Land Transport Fund. It’s a big deal because it’s the tax money that funds how we get around. The press release is the usual stuff, but here’s what they say Wellington’s going to get…
Read MoreMy Favourite Commute: Ground Level Guangzhou
For the first in a new series, Talk Wellington’s Project Manager reminisces…
Read MorePointed questions
Let’s Get Wellington Moving will be some of the biggest changes to Wellington city’s transport since the Urban Motorway was built in the 1960s. LGWM’s “recommended package for investment” (stuff to build) was due out in May. While we wait, progressive transport coalition Congestion Free Wellington has ten questions for the LGWM team.
Read MoreIt’s our right: Healthy Streets opens our eyes
You know that feeling when something gives you a completely new perspective on familiar things? And all of a sudden you start saying “Wow that makes so much sense” and “why don’t we do it like that?” Some genuinely revolutionary ideas came to New Zealand this month and we hope they’ll make waves.
Read MoreDriving Me Crazy
Catching the bus now feels more stressful and less useful. Guest poster Helena Bailey is back – and she’s fuming. Why, after “improvements”, is it now harder to get home from the city at night?
Read MoreFine parking, or parking fine?
Going to Wellington city centre in the weekend, and determined to take the car? Soon you’ll be paying – but TBH we all should have been, for years now.
Read MoreFriday Poem – The Final Lap
Wellingtonian Tim Jones drives south through the Wairarapa – and writes an evocative poem.
Read MoreTalking transport in Te Upoko o te Ika: Monday 30 Jul
Our regular round up of the week’s goings on with getting around.
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