well, I do love being able to hang my laundry on the clothesline while dishevelled in my underwear, but this is a massive privilege and certainly not a NIMBY hill on which I’d ever die..

This is cool! I didn’t know that Ōtepoti had urbanerds meetups as well (had ignorantly assumed ours were just a quirky Pōneke feature). This is awesome to see!

I know this post is satire, for two reasons:

1) it insinuates that our current government might make a savvy car-deprioritising decision if provided evidence

2) it implies that experts armed with transport data & research haven’t been screaming this at National the whole entire time

I don't think the Venn diagram of Trump voters and Hands Off protestors has much overlap.

Any American who saw his incoherent blathering leading up to the election and concluded "this is my guy" probably won't be out picketing this soon into his term—no matter how brutally it's going.

alas, we learn from history that we learn absolutely nothing from history.

it's such a breath of fresh air (and aptly named too, then, I suppose)!

my master's research project is on the integration of active modes with public transport to unlock mode shift away from private-car use—so there will indeed be much unpacking of this holy trinity!

so much potential there, for sure.

really awesome work producing this so quickly.

also, as an aspiring transport planner, I appreciate you putting the concept of Level of Stress on my radar—clearly something about which I should've already known!

Never forget, the electric car is here to save the car industry, not the planet.

no question. to say it’s prime real estate is such an understatement.

the number of additional people who could not only be housed more generally but also be within easy walking of Mt Vic greenbelt, waterfront, Basin Reserve, and—most importantly—KC Cafe is painful to dream on.