Blogs / April 2015
May 2015 | March 2015-
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Draft Wellington Cycling Framework passes council
- Sustainable Wellington Transport
- Debate of the cycling framework occurred at the full council meeting this morning.
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Walkscore
- Sustainable Wellington Transport
- It’s been a while since I looked at WalkScore and there is now an app for Android and IOS.
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Wellington Cycling Framework and Priorities
- Sustainable Wellington Transport
- Since my post yesterday regarding the cycling framework, there has been a fair bit of discussion around project priorities and, specifically, what this means for the Island Bay Cycleway.
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Island Bay, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, New Zealand/Aotearoa (OpenStreetMap)
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Metlink brings you City Safari
- Sustainable Wellington Transport
- I saw a poster up on my bus this morning reminding me of Metlink City Safari, which runs on 17 May 2015.
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Commemoration vs Celebration
- The Wellingtonista
- Over the last week, Wellington has been the focus of an Anzac Day like no other.
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WCC Cycling Framework
- Sustainable Wellington Transport
- The upcoming WCC full council meeting has one major agenda point, the Wellington Cycling Framework.
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Snapper Sprat failures
- Sustainable Wellington Transport
- It took a while for this issue to register even though I’d been watching it happen personally.
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Dan at the head of the FishHead
- The Wellingtonista
- How time flies! Five years since we hit the launch party, FishHead magazine is going from strength to strength, no doubt because they’ve been smart enough to solicit a bunch of Wellingtonista contributors (I wrote in the very first issue, current ‘istas Tom Beard and Tom Goulter and gone fishin’ Hadyn Green are all regular columnists).
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Slides and a podcast: my MMBA 505 lecture and Access Granted, episode 45
- Jack Yan
- As promised to the MMBA 505 class at Victoria University of Wellington last night, here are my slides.
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Wellington ANZAC services
- Sustainable Wellington Transport
- Metlink has published timetables for the weekend service, including the centenary parade tomorrow.
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Review: Triumphs and other alternatives
- The Wellingtonista
- The lights go up on a mostly bare stage.
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Cenotaph photos
- Sustainable Wellington Transport
- For this set of photos, I was out walking with my son.
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Biking for a better city.
- Sustainable Wellington Transport
- Gregory: One of the consistent points that we try to make on the Sustainable Wellington Transport blog is that we’re concerned with accessibility and mobility.
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There can be only one, unless you forget to register your design: the Range Rover Evoque and the copycat Landwind X7
- Jack Yan
- The stunning original: the Range Rover Evoque.
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Musings on making friends with mobiles
- Jack Yan
- I see Google has messaged me in Webmaster Tools about some sites of ours that aren’t mobile-friendly.
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Sale of St Christopher’s- Open Letter to Presbyterian Council
- Sarah Free
- To the Moderator, Presbyterian Council, I have now attended two community meetings in regard to the proposed sale of the church and hall at 27 Ventnor Street, Seatoun, and write to you now in my capacity as an Eastern Ward Councillor to express my concern at what I have heard about the process.
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New mode for Phantom?
- Sustainable Wellington Transport
- Spotted this guy changing out posters on Courtnay Place this morning as my bus was pulling away. It’s better to see a cargo bike being parked up on the footpath than the van that usually does the job.
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Traveller impressions of Porirua
- Sustainable Wellington Transport
- My French is incredibly rusty, but I did manage to get a strong sense out of this French travellers’ blog post before looking up a translation.
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Porirua, Wellington Region, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Pukeahu pictures
- Sustainable Wellington Transport
- I had to walk the dog this morning, so I took another trip through Pukeahu as it was being set up for the opening.
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Opening public places
- Sustainable Wellington Transport
- There are a few new and redeveloped spaces that are either newly opened or about to open.
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When Road Cycling is Illegal
- Sustainable Wellington Transport
- Following my recent post on fixing cyclist infrastructure, I received a reply that questioned the rationale of pushing cyclists into pedestrian space: @sustwelltrans Lets make roads that work for all vehicles - Arras underpass should have bikes ok - leave #footpaths for #pedetrians — Ellen Blake (@Windynell) April 05, 2015 Since I didn’t know how or why cyclist restrictions happen, I emailed WCC to ask. Cyclists can use all roads except for motorways, lanes reserved for Buses Only, pedestrian malls, and some tunnels. Cyclists are banned from these places due to safety concerns which derive from conflicts very high volumes of other users who have been formally given exclusive priority. Cyclists may use all normal Bus Lanes, but not Bus Only lanes. Motorways in Wellington City area are: State Highway 1 from the Karo/Willis intersection to Ngauranga State Highway 1 from Johnsonville to Porirua Bus Only lanes are: Throndon Quay southbound centre lane into Lambton Interchange Lambton Quay from Bunny St to Whitmore St (Lambton Interchange site) Lambton Quay southbound from Brandon St to Featherston St Hunter St-Customhouse Quay-Willis St southbound from Featherston St to Manners St Manners St from Willis St to Cuba St both directions Pedestrian Malls are: Cuba St from Ghuznee St to Manners St Tunnels where cyclists are banned are: Arras Tunnel (State Highway 1) Mt Victoria Tunnel road lanes (State Highway 1) Hataitai Bus Tunnel. I’m sure that there are plenty of points that could be contested within that list, but I’ll only touch on a couple. For the road tunnels, the conditions of the road are identical to normal urban roads, with the exception of ventilation and lighting. It’s not clear how or why the Arras and Mt Victoria tunnels would create an actual safety risk beyond that of normal urban cycling. If there is some exceptional risk, wouldn’t it be better to educate the motorists that cause the risk? The decisions are the responsibility of the appropriate Road Controlling Authority. For all urban roads Wellington City Council is the RCA, for the entire state highway network it is the New Zealand Transport Agency. The timing of decisions result from safety and management reviews on an as required basis. Both tunnels are part of SH1 and fall under NZTA’s authority. I’ve just sent an OIA request for justification of the exclusion. They have until May 15 to respond.
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Porirua, Wellington Region, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Review: The showgirl
- The Wellingtonista
- A NZ written disco noir set in Harlem, 1979.
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Making Use of Canal Reserve
- Sustainable Wellington Transport
- I’ve been thinking about Canal Reserve a lot recently.
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It’s taken me a long time to blog about sheep
- Jack Yan
- Living in New Zealand, of course PETA’s latest graphic (on the right) is going to get a few of us commenting.
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Seminar: Increasing walking and cycling in NZ cities
- Sustainable Wellington Transport
- New Zealand Centre for Sustainable Cities has a seminar coming up on Thursday April 16th.
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Farewell, Manhattan: switching to the Cooler Master Storm Quick Fire TK Cherry MX Brown
- Jack Yan
- The Cooler Master Storm Quick Fire TK, with white case.
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Mana/Newlands Smartcard Expiry
- Sustainable Wellington Transport
- This service note from Metlink caught my eye today: If you have a Mana/Newlands smartcard that was purchased in 2006 it will expire this year and will no longer be able to be used.
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Reusing Te Papa’s collections images, by the numbers
- Te Papa's blog
- In June last year we began making high-resolution images available for download, for collection items where copyright (or cultural rights) would allow us. We went live with 14,000 images under a Creative Commons licence, and 17,000 under No Known Copyright Restrictions statement. You can find out a bit more about what those statements means on... Read more »
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Te Papa, 55, Cable Street, Te Aro, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6011, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Wellington’s Changing Bus Culture
- Sustainable Wellington Transport
- The DomPost is currently running an editorial on Wellington’s bus service.
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Easy Bits: Unique Eastbourne Destination Names
- Sustainable Wellington Transport
- If you scan through the list of routes around the region, you’ll find a few names pop up over and over again.
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Recreating the sounds of Māori at Gallipoli
- Te Papa's blog
- In what is probably a first for an exhibition like this Gallipoli: The scale of our war (opening April 18) has its very own soundtrack and score to enhance the visitor experience. In this blog Te Papa researcher Amber Aranui talks about recreating the sounds of Māori at Gallipoli. For the part of the exhibition that...
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Positive changes
- Sustainable Wellington Transport
- When the Arras Tunnel opened to vehicles, the media was quick to pick up on cyclists going through.
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Did Facebook really mean it when it apologized to the drag community for freezing their accounts?
- Jack Yan
- I’m getting quite used to the hypocrisy behind the likes of Google and Facebook.
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Keeping The Footpath Clear
- Sustainable Wellington Transport
- Wellington residents were delivered a copy of Our Wellington within the last week and we were disappointed to see this bit contained within.
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Know Your Network: Should I ever buy a bus pass?
- Sustainable Wellington Transport
- Per-trip costs vs bus passes Every time there’s a fare change on the bus network, I run a calculation on bus passes.
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Review: Tiny Deaths
- The Wellingtonista
- A series of 11 monologues about love and sex written by Uther Dean.
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