Blogs / August 2010
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I wanna be a Shweeb Dweeb
- Wellington Region Cycleways
- Yet another cool idea at the design intersection of bikes and public transport.
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Are you disappointed by the National Cycleway?
- Wellington Region Cycleways
- Last November I predicted we’d soon be seeing the then new logo for the New Zealand Cycle Trail on signs up and down the country.
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Helene Ritchie writes
- Eye of the Fish
- Johnsonville Neglected by Council.
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Sail carts, land yachts and recumbent trikes
- Wellington Region Cycleways
- On old maps of Asia, where as medieval cartographers would draw sea monsters in the oceans, they would sometimes draw Mongol sail carts in the middle of the steppe.
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Andy Foster writes
- Eye of the Fish
- “There’s been a lot of angst from some people in Johnsonville about Plan Changes 72 and 73.
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Patrol
- Hutt Chick
- wasn’t quite sure what to expect when I arrived at the police station. The others were waiting. I got into the waiting patrol car, and buckled up. I was going out on community patrol in Naenae. Community patrols work alongside police to build safer communities, providing an extra set of eyes and ears. We drove a random route but to some set areas, through schools, up alleyways behind businesses, making sure the streets were safe and providing a visual deterrent for tagging and other crime.
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Whither Johnsonville
- Eye of the Fish
- There’s some big news from the Council this week, as they debate whether or not to adopt District Plan Change 72 and 73.
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The Syntax of Public Transport
- Eye of the Fish
- Following on from previous discussions on all things transport and urban, I’ve had a play round and tried to depict some of the issues that are striking the city planners and traffic engineers – as well as causing wrangles between Mayor Kerry and Sir Bob Jones.
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Environmental assistance for buildings
- Hutt Chick
- Eco Design advice is now available for those building residential housing in Lower Hutt.
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Lower Hutt, Wellington, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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The Syntax of Wellington Political Space
- Eye of the Fish
- A quick post today to briefly introduce the subject that seems to have got some people excited: that the WCC has hired Space Syntax to map out conditions in Wellington’s CBD.
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Wellington is a cycling city
- Wellington Region Cycleways
- An early drizzly weekday morning in Wellington and there are still hundreds of people riding on the waterfront: There is some suggestion to make the cyclists go along Jervois Quay instead of the waterfront.
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Ideas for Wellington #2 thru #11
- Wellington Region Cycleways
- I pinched a map from this page on the Greens website.
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bryan pepperell interviewed on Scoop
- Bryan Pepperell - Back To The Future
- See the interview with text on www.scoop.co.nz
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A Do Nothing for Cyclists Mayor?
- Wellington Region Cycleways
- With the new trains coming the Greater Wellington Regional Council is reviewing its policies for bikes on trains.
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Rare duck seen in Waiwhetu Stream
- Hutt Chick
- A rare Brown teal (Anas chlorotis), or pateke, was recently spotted on Waiwhetu stream which had flown in from Zealandia in Karori.
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Karori, Wellington, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Mayor Kerry speaks
- Eye of the Fish
- In response to a recent posting here on Eye of the Fish, and possibly in response to my slightly provocative comment that …. “It is increasingly difficult to write about design in a city which pays only lip service to it,” I’m pleasantly surprised that Mayor Kerry Prendergast has taken the time to add a comment to the posting. In case people have missed it, and because it is, after all, from the Mayor, I think it deserves a little more prominence and so, here it is:
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Wellington roads need tolls for cars
- Wellington Region Cycleways
- It seems the NZTA is to waste another $29 million dollars on State Highway 1 between Aotea Quay and the SH1/SH2 split, which is barely more than 3 kilometres.
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