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2 years

We're still arguing about whether we even need trains. Meanwhile, the Swiss have trains with family cars - complete with a slide.

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Jumping on the bandwagon... For every 10 likes this gets, I will ask ChatGPT to make this neighborhood more bike-friendly.

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How much space in our city is occupied by cars? More than you imagined...

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This photo is being used on social media to argue protected bike lanes are dangerous for drivers. In reality, it shows how infrastructure protects vulnerable road users and also, just ahead - what happens when there is no barrier (a car in the bike lane). We need more of this!

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"But, I need a truck..."

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We are paying people to buy EVs. We want every new car to be an EV by the next decade. But have we thought about what that really means for cities and people?

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The Toyota Carolla is the canary in the coal mine for what's happening on our streets. What used to be a compact efficient passenger vehicle has morphed into a heavy, bloated SUV.

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Visiting family in the US. This is what running in the suburbs looks like.

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1 year

The Netherlands is trolling the rest of the world with its infrastructure.

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2 years

And here are some more kid-friendly train cars.

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3 years

Robin Williams, cyclist. When Robin died, he had a collection of over 100 bikes.

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1 year

Sorry cyclists, space is at a premium. We just don't have room for bike lanes.

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8 months

The home treadmill is a hallmark of the way we’ve ruined our cities, making them so boring, anti-social, disconnected and unsafe that it’s just as good to run in one place staring at a wall.

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If you’re not yet hearing everyone talk about Bioswales, it’s time to start talking about them. They’re one of the easiest, cheapest and most effective things we can do to reduce flooding in the city.

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8 months

If you wouldn’t put it in the middle of the road, don’t put it in the middle of the footpath.

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We give 16 and 17-year-olds, people we think are too immature to vote or sign a contract, a license to drive a fast-moving, 2-ton metal box anywhere, anytime. Make it make sense.

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Imagine an agency building thousands and thousands of desperately needed homes, but a new government calls this underperforming, slashes the agency's budget and wipes out nearly all planned buildings for the next five years... You can't make this stuff up!

Kāinga Ora chief's exit: New chair at odds with Christopher Luxon over performance

Its boss has made "an enormous difference" despite the prime minister's claim the agency is underperforming, the new chair says.

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1 year

This isn’t a bike lane. It’s a door zone with a bike symbol painted in it. And it’s far too common.

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8 months

Can I be any clearer about how much safer 30km/h roads are in New Zealand?

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Bike Fact: 2x Tour de France winner Gino Bartali used at least 40 'training rides' to transport covertly printed counterfeit identity documents in his bike’s frame and handlebars b/t Florence and Assisi for Jewish people facing deportation to concentration camps during WWII.

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@parismarx It's crazy that these tech CEOs gloat, acting like the meteoric rise in stock price based on speculation isn't a bubble but their hard work - like they have never seen this happen before... over and over again.

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They’re not elite athletes. They’re not wealthy socialites. They’re not middle aged men in Lycra. They’re parents taking kids to daycare. They’re children going to school. They’re humans going to work. They’re not cyclists. They”re people on bikes…like you and me.

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2 years

I see @_chloeswarbrick 's argument to pedestrianise Queens street and raise it. Daylight the Waihorotiu stream and make Queens street the coolest place in the Southern Hemisphere. (painting by Chris Dew)

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How do you move 40,000 people quickly, efficiently, cheaply, with virtually no emissions and without a single, crash, injury or death? Hint: it’s not cars.

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I think this may be the best that ChatGPT can do...

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Why are we so fixated on just subsidising the purchase of electric vehicles? Why not let people get a massive rebate on an e-bike or e-scooter or even better, when they buy a transit pass?

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2 years

A guy w/ this Facebook profile picture told me to get a real bike, because ebikes are “cheating”…

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Twice a day, a specially designed $1.4 million machine moves a barrier over a lane on the Auckland Harbour Bridge. But sure, adding a bike lane is too much trouble.

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2 years

As the cruise ships return, it’s worth noting a single cruise ship burns 150 tonnes of fuel per day, equivalent to 1M cars. There are 323 active cruise ships in the world, producing the daily emissions of 323,000,000 cars, but with a total capacity of just 581,200 cars.

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This is the Auckland Harbour Bridge. This isn't an illusion or photoshop. In 1974, in the face of rising petrol prices Waka Kotahi (NZTA) opened two lanes to pedestrians and cyclists. We did it then. We can do it now.

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Weird to constantly see a party that is overwhelmingly white (90%), middle aged (median 49), heterosexual (84%) males (66%) accusing everyone else of being racist.

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The machine on the left costs $15,000,000 to build, and takes $3,000 to capture the annual carbon from a single car. The machine on the right costs $100 to build and takes $0 to capture the annual carbon from a single car.

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Question: "How's that Te Huia train no one uses doing?" Answer: Smashing it! Ridership surpassed the official (2018) NZTA daily average ridership target within 3 months of operation and is now almost double the target.

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1 year

Cars don't shop. People shop.

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The political discourse around transport in New Zealand right now...

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Imagine seeing this and still thinking ‘nah, let’s just do more pavement.’

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Painted bike gutters that pin people on bikes between the door zone and fast-moving traffic are designed to kill.

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A tale of two cities: Sydney: Builds an at-grade 12km light rail line in about 4 years (2015-2019). Ridership exceeds 80,000 passengers per day. Auckland: Proposes at-grade light rail in 2015. Changes to a tunnel in 2022. Proposes even more tunnels in 2023. Builds nothing.

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@BrentToderian Treatment for the insanity.

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2 years

Denmark is spending EUR 245 million to build 45 bike superhighways connecting the entire country, eliminating 1 million car trips and reducing 40,000 sick days. We spent EUR 750 million on Transmission Gully...

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Why does it matter that more cars than ever on the road are SUVs and trucks? It's not just emissions. It's about what drivers can and cannot see. This is an average 1.05m 5-year. Completely invisible to drrivers of one the best-selling trucks in the world.

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8 months

Merry Christmas!

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1 year

The problem with National’s transportation plan in one graphic.

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The current state of New Zealand transport policy.

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2 years

The economics of cars vs. buses. Yet, so many people still pick the car.

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8 months

New Zealand’s best urban planning journalist is @simonbwilson . “Cycleways are the cheapest transport infrastructure and they often have good business cases. You’d think politicians who trumpet their “fiscal responsibility” would call for more of them.”

Simon Wilson: The Toyota Corolla principle of planning

OPINION: After the ferry cancellation, how will we plan better infrastructure?

www.nzherald.co.nz

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8 months

Show me a road that gives kids as much joy and independence as a protected cycleway or bike path and I will 'calm down' about abandoning walking and cycling infrastructure funding.

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1 year

E-bikes & e-scooters will do more for the planet (and cities) than electric cars ever will. 6x more e-bikes/e-scooters have been imported into NZ since 2014 than electric cars. Imagine how many people could be zipping around on e-bikes if subsidised.

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Great, can't wait to save $20.05 a week on taxes. If only the cost of taking the ferry hadn't gone up by $30 per week when they axed 1/2 price fares. Actual annual savings: -$520

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I still can’t get over the fact tap water bottled in Paeroa is shipped more than 11,000km to the US grocery chain Trader Joe’s. What an enormous waste of resources.

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4 years

@MotherJones Cops dressed in fatigues, carrying assault rifles and puncturing car tires with hunting knives. Nothing to worry about here folks...

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8 months

No road or motorway in New Zealand will ever inspire the kind of pride, awe and admiration as the Lightpath. But with our current government, it would never even be considered.

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5 months

1,000s of people walk, scoot and cycle over the Wynyard Crossing Bridge every week. But due to a fault, it’s closed until next year. However, it’s, being kept open vertically so a handful of expensive yachts can come and go anytime. Another benefit for the few over the many.

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2 years

Cycling is 1% of all trips in NZ. But this year, 6% of traffic fatalities are cyclists. We need more protected bike lanes ... now.

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1 year

Kimpton: “I’m a dad with four boys. I cannot imagine living without cars. My wife’s got one and I’ve got one. You just could not do it, you couldn’t function as a family. That’s the reality of our society.” NO! That’s the reality of our infrastructure.🤬

The man who says he'll fix Auckland Transport in just 18 months

The new boss of Auckland Transport has high hopes and a very short timeframe.

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2 years

Oh the things that can be done by bike, when cars are out of the way.

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1 year

Despite all the cars, 50% of trips taken on Dominion Rd are by bus. If ever there was a place that light rail made sense, this is it.

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@quicksilver99 It might have been a while since you last visited rural Delaware. The chicken farms and corn fields have been replaced by endless cul-de-sac suburbs.

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Reminder: more roads = more driving = more congestion. We've known it for 70 years.

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1 year

At just 1,020 metres, it would take the average person commuting by bike less than 5 minutes to cross and under 3 minutes with an ebike. Any argument that it’s much to bike or people wouldn’t use a dedicated bike lane, is flat wrong.

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The answer to a pedestrian and cyclist crossing over the Waitematā Harbour is simple - take just ONE of the 8 lanes. We don’t need extra clip-ons, new bridges, tunnels, gondolas, etc. Just one lane…

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1 year

All the public transport underway right now in Auckland.

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10 months

The empty bus argument is so silly. Cars are empty 95% percent of the time, and local roads are unused for most of the day. But, no one says we should get rid of them.

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10 months

Some councillors are obsessed with saying “no one is using the buses” “we need cut bus services the buses are empty”. This image was my bus home today & this morning I missed my first two buses as they were full. @AklTransport have shown councillors the data showing patronage is

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People visit the Netherlands and come back home impressed, but also angry. They want to know why they don’t have safe places for their kids to walk and cycle, why they don’t have efficient public transit, why the air is dirty and streets are so loud. We can do so much better.

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Person commenting on the cost of my cargo e-bike, which we use for groceries, kid hauling and most errands. As they drive away in their $60k Ute, to their paid parking space, burning $3/litre petrol after just paying off their last visit to the repair shop for WOF issues.

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In Japan, a 7-day NZD 375 rail pass will get you unlimited rides on any train to any place (including high speed rail). In NZ, a $229 ticket gets you from Auckland to Wellington once. We can do better!

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@RigaDimd Ha. That’s exactly what I was thinking. ChatGPT just can’t replicate our best biking cities.

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This 8-second video shows everything you need to know about transportation in Amsterdam. ✅ Trains ✅ Lots of bikes ✅ Microcars ✅ Car parking off the main bike-prioritised road. A better city doesn't mean you can't have a car. It means there is space for other modes too.

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If a 15-minute city is imprisonment, a 1-hour city is the death penalty.

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In Copenhagen, even the trains have bike lanes.

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6 months

The difference in cover images between the 2021 and 2024 Government Policy Statement on land transport tells you just how limited this government's view of what constitutes transport really is. Just a highway of utes...

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I don’t need supersonic trains in a vacuum tube. I don’t need a car that drives itself. I don’t need a flying vehicle. I just want a safe place to bike, a nice place to walk and frequent public transport.

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Turns out the graphic for the new harbour crossing scenarios was accidentally cropped. There's a Scenario 6: - Use two lanes to prioritise buses - Take a lane for bikes - Implement a CBD congestion charge Check out how it compares!

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The government plans up to 50,000 annual roadside drug tests at a huge cost. Yet drugs are a minor factor in road deaths/injuries. Meanwhile, they want to increase speeds—one of the biggest contributing factors to road fatalities and injuries. The new Road to Zero...sense.

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We can’t engineer our way out of climate change. Pipes and drains will never hold back the rains of the future.

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2 years

Fewer than 10 pedestrians have ever been killed by people on shared e-scooters worldwide, yet they are heavily regulated - speed limited, age restricted and geofenced. On the other hand, nearly 2,000 pedestrians and cyclists will be killed today alone, by people driving cars.

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The death of a pedestrian should be acknowledged - even when it’s an inconvenient truth. In 2018 a Giltrap employee hit and killed a someone crossing Great North Rd, in 2021 Giltrap claimed there had been no deaths on the road, to fight improvements.

How misinformation has been used to fight road improvements

Statements by automotive-oriented groups that Great North Road in Auckland was safe despite heavy traffic volumes are untrue

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Simeon Brown doesn't seem to understand cities aren't just places to drive from home to work. They are the cultural lifeblood of our society, where ideas pass from person to person on the streets and in parks and cafes. They aren't just a place to exchange money from metal boxes.

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"We painted all these new bike lanes and no one uses them. I just don't get it."

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Don’t be greedy cyclists! We gave you a little triangle and a beg button connected to nothing on an expressway and you still want better infrastructure?

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"Why aren't you cyclists using the bike lane?!" Two blocks of our local "shared path." I guess the 'sharing' part is with poles and trees.

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2 years

There are enough lane kms of road in NZ to make a road from the top of the country to the bottom - with at least 120 lanes. There are enough lane kms of cycleway in NZ to make a cycleway from Auckland to Rotorua - with 1 lane.

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The Auckland Regional Fuel Tax is gone as of today. The 30% of the revenue was for road safety improvements, which were expected to reduce road deaths and serious injuries by 488. Can you really do something better than that with your 11 cents?

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Road deaths in New Zealand have decreased by over 12% from 2020 and almost 26% from 2022, with driver deaths down 32%, so far this year. What do we think will happen if speeds increase now, after reductions starting in 2020?

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One of the best images to emerge from the flooding.

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