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The following posts are filed under: safety.
Natural experiments, and traffic
You’d think that restricting road space for general traffic will automatically make streets more congested. But does it? Natural experiments are worth a look…
Read MoreReshaping Streets: that’s a big fat YES please
Good street change is stupidly hard in NZ, partly thanks to some weird little fossils in legislation. “Reshaping Streets” will fix those, making it a bit easier to improve our streets! But, surprise (sigh) it needs your help to get over the line…
Read MoreMeet the Women Who Ride at Night
How do we make Wellington’s nights safer for all? The women who ride at night remind us that questions of liveability can’t just stop when the sun goes down.
Read MoreReshaping streets for transport justice: webinar with Oakland, CA
Because people in councils and consultancies are generally employed, white, middle-class, the solutions they suggest for cities are often “elite projections” and won’t really do the good – unless they (*we) take special care. Oakland has a great pivot story, which is still going… so tune in to learn!
Read MoreLess death please and thank you: Thorndon Quay/Hutt Road submissions in quick!
All the upgrade focus is arbitrarily cut off at Ngauranga, but the Hutt Road and Thorndon Quay stretch is still a heavily used route by those in the Northern suburbs and satellites. Let’s make sure it’s great!
Read MoreRoad To Zero: submission guide LAST CHANCE TODAY WEDNESDAY!
Quick! The best ten minutes you’ll spend today – less death in our times!
Read MoreRethinking Safety
It’s Road Safety Week! As we continue to grapple with our attitudes to our objectively terrible road death rate (not to mention e-scooters, kids’ cycling, high-vis, unsafe cars, speed limits etc), what “road safety” and “road danger” is real, and what’s just a myth?
Read More“Community desires” and the vital dullness of process
Imagine a well-intentioned initiative to make your local main street safer. Fast forward through a messy process, and now a local group’s taking Council to court over it all. What’s going on – and more importantly, would this happen to something good but messy in your suburb?
Read MoreThe Traffic Jam: Operation Human Shield
RNZ Nights host and transport geek, Bryan Crump, has reanimated his blog The Traffic Jam, in the run-up to the local body elections. In this post, Bryan marks the new name for Wellington’s main cycling lobby group with a look at its latest strategy.
Read MoreDriving force
July 15th bears down on us: the most sweeping set of changes to Wellington public transport since ages ago. The Hutt’s had a taster and for the rest of the region, the countdown continues. In this bus-focussed special, Talk Wellington’s been reading the news with a critical eye…
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