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The following posts are filed under: healthy streets.
Summer, sun, socialising – speeding?
Summer! With loads more people outdoors, it’s more obvious how local streets are performing for their communities. Here’s some tips for local citizens to seize the opportunity for some productive local conversation about driving speeds.
Read MoreClimate Change Commission Draft Budget Submission Guide (Done in 3 mins!) Due 28th
It’s time again to speak up: tell the leaders to do right by our future – cos if we don’t, they won’t.
Read MoreThe Traffic Jam Episode 7: Absolutely Positively Newtown (and Berhampore)
Beloved voice of Radio NZ Nights, Bryan Crump, looks forward to the next steps now that 935 people have submitted on the Newtown Connections (aka WCC having a better go at safe cycling in the southern suburbs).
Read MoreRevitalisation in Porirua: people, land, and movement
The much-anticipated announcement came this week: a significant investment by government will refurbish and revitalise the extensive state housing areas in Porirua. We’re hoping those in charge will bring the kind of progressive mindset that’s historically driven Porirua’s better places to live.
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 MoreThe 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 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.
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