This week we have a representative from the Greater Christchurch Forum and James Caygill from Waka Kotahi talking about transportation and roading options in Canterbury. It is fundamental that we plan many things beyond current local government boundaries. One major issue is transportation. This … [Read more...]
This Week Simon Kingham
I find the current discussion about petrol and diesel engine vehicles versus electric quite boring. When you consider that car manufacturers decided that vehicles should be petrol driven at the start of last century because they had found a massive supply of oil. Now car manufacturers are promoting … [Read more...]
Property Owners Gang up against Council
Every now and then a group of central city property owners stand up and clear their collective throats. This happened again on Saturday in the Press. A group of grim-faced people demanding that their opinions be considered more important than other submitters. Because they are rich. One of this … [Read more...]
Speed Limits – make it 80km
I remember being caught doing 130kph in my vintage when I was in a “Zen and the Art of Motorcycle maintenance” moment in the McKenzie country. The mountains were beckoning. The road was smooth. The car was purring. I’d driven past where we were to turn off. The cold wind was blowing through my body … [Read more...]
This weeks top links 8 November 2022
Complex conversations on complex questions - deliberative democracy in practice An excellent audio - "how the techniques of deliberative, as opposed to participatory democracy can be used to close the gap between public perceptions of major issues and their potential solutions. The discussion was … [Read more...]
The benefits of public expenditure shared by some in the community and not taxed
The benefit which derives to communities from public expenditure is seldom measured. Mostly because most journalists are financially illiterate. Bernard Hickey is a financial analyst who adds items together where seldom others venture. In the case of Transmission Gully, he has conducted some … [Read more...]
Transport Challenges in our City
Why doesn’t New Zealand just make public transport free? | The Spinoff Debates about making public transport free seem particularly hamstrung by a few sometimes understandable and sometimes slightly mean-spirited and inaccurate objections that have a decidedly neoliberal flavour. Here are the top … [Read more...]
Let’s cease the divisive debates on cycleways and focus instead on transportation planning
In the Press recently there was the sort of futile debate which public figures seeking publicity specialise in. Sam McDonald, to back up his central government National party mates, has had another go at funding for cycleways. I have no time for the anti- cycleway debates as they are divisive and … [Read more...]
17 Ways of moving around without fossil fuels
Jess Berentson-Shaw, in Newsroom, wrote in 17 Ways to Get About Without Using Fossil Fuels | Newsroom about cycleways and alternative thinking on transport and the importance of investing in them under the following headings. Our elected reps need to consider them all when applying their minds to … [Read more...]
An enlightened Cycleways debate
What a delight it was to read about business leaders in Auckland welcoming cycleways. https://www.stuff.co.nz/environment/climate-news/127765906/the-business-leaders-who-love-cycleways-and-public-transport. The sort of nonsense we hear too often in Christchurch as yet another business owner … [Read more...]
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