Tuesday 5pm gather and 5.30 start at Smash Palace
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I don’t know if I’m on my own or not, but the decision by Simeon Brown to raise the speed limits absolutely seems to defy logic. It panders to the baggy arse “yeh let me speed” philosophy which has had a fair go in our culture. Including by me in the past. It’s head- backwards type thinking, from a Minister who now has the Health portfolio where the results of speeding and road crashes will be mopped up.
This week we have Simon Kingham coming to speak about transport planning, and hopefully, covering the stupidity of the policy changes by former Minister Brown. Simon was the Chief Science advisor at Ministry of Transport and has a special focus on health and wellbeing and urban design.
Simon’s research primarily focuses on the impact of the urban environment on health and wellbeing, with a particular focus on transport, community and streetscape. His research is generally applied and carried out with end users with a strong community engagement focus.
For 6.5 years from 2018 to mid 2024, he was also seconded two days a week to the Ministry of Transport as their Chief Science Advisor, where he advised the Ministry on the evidence base of government policy
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