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On the frontlines of tactical urbanism: lighter, quicker, cheaper with Steven Burgess
“We shape our streets, and thereafter they shape us” – but then we can shape them back. And it needn’t be a huge, expensive, fraught undertaking. Tactical urbanism guru Steven Burgess has been in Aotearoa-NZ, rattling a few cages and opening eyes, and guest poster Braden went along.
Read MoreBustastrophe, budgets, and the Big Picture: Let’s Get Wellington Moving and beyond
As bustastrophes and motorway crashes continue, and public transport officials tell people “don’t use *our network* if you need to be somewhere on time”, Let’s Get Wellington looms like an approaching space-ship. What’s up and what’s going to happen?
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 MoreLet’s Get Wellington Moving: “Please, NZ, help us fund Wellington’s transport fat pants”
“Please give us lots of tax money to fund our transport works” Wellington councils are apparently asking Cabinet today. They will have their fingers crossed that Ministers won’t ask awkward questions like “will this package actually achieve what it should?” because the answer doesn’t seem like it’ll be healthy.
Read MoreRegional fuel taxes
Wellington’s councillors recently asked the government for permission to use a regional fuel tax to help pay for our transport infrastructure improvements. Guest author Taximan muses on the true costs of transport, and on the odds our leaders would spend more money well.
Read More“Of course it’s worth it, they’ve said we’ll save 25 minutes at peak”
Travel times are at the heart of transport business cases. Business cases are how bureaucrats decide what’s worth spending your money on and what’s not (before politics), and we invest billions of public dollars every year on transport according to business cases. You’d hope they’ve got fundamentally sensible calculations of benefit to the nation… but do they?
Harriet Gale of Greater Auckland points out some big questions regarding how we do our sums.
Money makes us do stuff, money lets us do stuff…
We all know the Wellington region needs more cash for public transport, plus discouragement from driving that clogs the roads (we said it loudly too). But how do we get it? One tool is congestion charging. Auckland’s thinking hard about it – is it a tool our region should use too? Auckland’s Harriet Gale has some…
Read More“We want progressive!” says Wellington
The public feedback from Let’s Get Wellington Moving is now released. For those hoping for a more progressive direction for Wellington City’s transport, it sounds pretty good… a few initial thoughts while we read the report!
Read MoreWellington train brain strain
“You don’t know what you’ve got til it’s gone”: Tuesday’s peak-hour train outage gave Wellingtonians another opportunity to appreciate our trains – and gets guest author Head of the Fish pondering the unhelpful ways the region runs trains
Read MoreThe elephant of hard choices
This year’s window has closed for having our say on Let’s Get Wellington Moving. Guest author Roger Boulter calls out the elephant in the room that’s now going to get bigger.
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