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The following posts are filed under: cycling.
“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 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 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 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 MoreOh, oh, Onzo! Will you whisk me across Welly?
We’re excited about a new bike-sharing service in town!
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 MoreBurst my bubble
Guest author Lizzy H loves the bubble she get around in. But she also wonders: are our bubbles making us less human?
Read MoreOff to a good fresh start: Newtown Connections
Conversations about more bikeable streets in Newtown, Berhampore and Mt Cook suffered from being in the “fallout zone” of the Island Bay cycleway conversations. Four years later, Wellington City Council is having another go. This time, they’re asking people well before there’s anything tangible on the table. Guest poster Baz gives his take on the first…
Read MoreMaking streets better: starting with good kōrero
It was 2014 the last time the council asked people about cycling in Newtown and Berhampore, since when “the c word” has barely been heard there. But they’re asking again, now, til Tuesday 5pm, and you should leap in there because things have changed, folks. They’re doing it right!
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