Tags

Feeds / Congestion Free Wellington blog

This feed is published by Congestion Free Wellington.

This feed is read by this Whakaoko subscription

Added on 18 Apr 2020. Last read 1 month ago.

To subscribe to this feed, enter the following location into your feed reader.

This feed currently contains the following newsitems (total count 9):

    • Congestion Free Wellington Proposes A Strategy For Let’s Get Wellington Moving
      • 2018 has gone by without the Let’s Get Wellington Moving (LGWM) Recommended Programme of Investment being made public. It now seems as though it will be finalised in February or March 2019 and released to the public in March or April. Since it hasn’t been released, there are still opportunities to influence it. On 13 December 2018, Patrick Morgan and Russell Tregonning of Congestion Free Wellington made this presentation to the Wellington City Council Strategy Committee: A Strategy for LGWM. (PDF download link) We believe this strategy should have the following aim and intent: Aim: Promote a more liveable Wellington city, responsive to climate disruption by reducing reliance on the private car. Intent: Safe, attractive cycling & walking facilities; High-capacity, all-electric rapid mass public transport. In 2019, we’ll be keeping the pressure on LGWM to ensure that the package it releases meets the project’s own objectives, and is in line with the Congestion Free Wellington Declaration.    

    • Transportation 2040: Vancouver’s Blueprint for Sustainable Transport, with lessons for Wellington
      • Public Presentation: Wednesday 4 July, 6:30-7:30pm Sustainability Trust, 2 Forresters Lane, Te Aro (off Tory St) Hosted by Congestion-Free Wellington Wellington is facing major transport and land-use choices as we decide on the Let’s Get Wellington Moving process. Will we choose a compact, low-carbon city supported by world-class public transport, walking and cycling? Or will we choose tunnels, flyovers and sprawl? How have other cities made progress? Learn more in this public presentation from Dale Bracewell, Vancouver’s transport manager. Transportation 2040 is Vancouver’s high-level vision for all modes of transport, with specific mobility and safety goals. Vancouver achieved its interim target of 50 percent of all daily trips by sustainable modes, and is on track to achieve two-thirds of all daily trips by walking, cycling and public transport in 2040. The presentation will include lessons from Dale’s experiences applied to Wellington.

    • Presentations from Public Meeting
      • The Congestion-Free Wellington public meeting on 27 August included presentations from Russell Tregonning on Climate and Health; and Paula Warren on Balanced Transport Investment. Slides from their presentations are available at the links below (pdf). Transport choices are health and climate choices What would a balanced transport investment package look like?

    • Public Meeting: For a More Liveable City
      • When: Monday 28 August, doors open 5:30pm, 6:00pm start, 7:30pm close Where: Wellington Central Library, Mezzanine Floor Meeting Room All welcome to hear how sustainable transport design for Wellington benefits everyone—walkers, cyclists, public transport users, and drivers—reducing traffic volumes, lowering carbon emissions, and making a healthier city. Doors open 5:30pm, meeting will start at 6:00pm sharp. The following speakers have been confirmed. Roger Blakeley: Introduction — LGWM’s principles and objectives Paula Warren: The sustainable transport hierarchy and why LGWM’s outcomes should embody it Barry Mein (LGWM): LGWM’s progress towards meeting its objectives Russell Tregonning: Transport, climate change and public health: transport choices are health choices See the Facebook Event.

    • Congestion-Free Wellington welcomes release of LGWM working papers
      • News release from CFW. The LGWM project has released papers from its work on developing and evaluating possible future transport scenarios. Congestion-Free Wellington welcomes the release of this information. John Rankin, a spokesman for Congestion Free Wellington, says it’s easier to engage with people when you understand how they have reached the conclusions they are presenting. But CFW notes that the information released is most interesting for what it doesn’t say. “There is no mention at all of climate change; it’s business as usual transport planning,” says Rankin. New Zealand is a signatory to the Paris Climate Agreement, so we might expect scenario assessment to have considered the impact on future greenhouse gas emissions from transport. “What comes out of LGWM will shape Wellington transport’s greenhouse gas profile for a generation,” Rankin said. There is also no mention of the scenarios’ impacts on people’s health. “People who walk and cycle live longer, healthier lives,” Rankin said. “Emissions from burning fossil fuels, especially diesel, cause physical harm and our health system picks up the cost.” “It’s time we stopped externalising the costs of our transport decisions,” says Rankin. The papers also show that the LGWM team believes urban motorways and cars are enablers of economic growth. “We would like to see the evidence on which this conclusion is based,” Rankin says. Congestion destroys the quality of urban life. High quality, clean public transport, like light rail, and safe walking and cycling, encourage people to leave their cars at home, promote urban regeneration, and make cities better, more productive places to live. “This is good for the economy, good for the environment, and good for everyone,” said Rankin. Contact: John Rankin, tel 021 726 546 congestionfreewellington.org.nz @cfwelly Congestion Free Wellington advocates for a more liveable city. The coalition includes Cycle Aware Wellington, FIT: Fair Intelligent Transport, Living Streets Aotearoa, Save the Basin, and Trams-Action. Links: Long-list scenario development Assessment and ranking of the long-listed scenarios Information about each long-listed scenario

    • Wellington needs smarter road pricing
      • News release from Congestion Free Wellington 7 June 2017 Wellington needs smarter road pricing, say transport advocates Transport advocates are calling on the Government to introduce road pricing in Wellington. John Rankin, a spokesman for Congestion Free Wellington, says smarter road pricing is an essential tool in addressing traffic snarls at rush hour. “Drivers already pay indirectly to use roads, but with smarter road pricing such as tolls at peak times, it’s possible to reduce congestion.” He says road pricing works in London, Singapore and Stockholm, with revenue helping to fund high-quality public transport. “Giving people more transport choices such as light rail and bike lanes makes it easier for those people who have to drive, such as tradies.” “Peak time congestion charges can encourage people to leave their cars at home, but attractive alternatives must be made available. Otherwise, road pricing is unfair to people who have no choice but to drive during the peaks.” “Auckland is negotiating with the Government for a fair share of transport funding. We say Wellington also needs to make a strong case to the Government for a congestion-free transport network.” “With better transport choices and less congestion, everyone can get around more easily.” Contacts: John Rankin, tel 021 726 546 Tim Jones, tel 027 359 0293 congestionfreewellington.org.nz @cfwelly Congestion Free Wellington advocates for a more liveable city. The coalition includes Cycle Aware Wellington, FIT: Fair Intelligent Transport, Living Streets Aotearoa, Save the Basin, and Trams-Action. Smarter Transport Pricing project gets under way in Auckland https://www.beehive.govt.nz/release/smarter-transport-pricing-project-gets-underway-auckland Auckland reference https://www.greaterauckland.org.nz/2017/06/05/next-steps-towards-smarter-transport-pricing/

    • Why congestion-free Wellington
      • Last night, Congestion-Free Wellington held its first public meeting, which unanimously supported the following statement. LGWM (Let’s get Wellington moving) is a once-in-a-generation opportunity to shape the city’s future form. The problem is that the demand for road space exceeds supply; if we do nothing, congestion will continue to get worse. The root cause is that the least efficient users of road space, single occupancy vehicles, have captured most of the supply. In response, we can do 3 things: we can add road supply, we can use road space more efficiently, or we can manage down demand. LGWM rightly says that we need multi-modal intervention, but in its suggested interventions, the lion’s share of the money goes to adding road supply. Light rail, the most space-efficient people mover for a city our size, isn’t even on the list (light rail has since been added). The walking and cycling interventions are equally modest, with no mention of options like closing Lambton Quay to private vehicles. And a pre-condition for demand management is that people have attractive alternatives to private vehicle travel. We ask LGWM to put forward bold proposals for public transport, walking and cycling, and managing demand; this can’t happen if most of the money is in the state highway bucket. We want to send LGWM a message: be bold and we will back you; spend most of the money on roads and you miss the opportunity of a lifetime. You can’t keep buying bigger trousers because you are putting on weight. For a congestion-free Wellington, this meeting encourages LGWM to be bold.

    • Congestion Free Wellington Public Meeting
      • The Congestion Free Coalition is holding a public meeting to ask: Where Is Welly Really Moving? The meeting will be held on Thursday 25 May 2017, 6.00-7.30pm in the Mezzanine Meeting Room, Wellington Central Library. The “Let’s Get Welly Moving” official process was supposed to deliver modern, sustainable transport options for Wellington. But it increasingly looks like a smokescreen for “four lanes to the planes”. This public meeting will help us fight against motorway madness and in favour of a liveable capital city that puts people first. It’s been called by a coalition of local groups concerned about the future of Wellington’s transport system. Come along, invite your friends, and let’s make sure the outcome of this process is a liveable capital city with great public transport, streets, walking and cycling.

    • Welcome to Congestion-Free Wellington
      • Why congestion-free? We think Wellington needs to offer more congestion-free travel options to its residents and visitors. a public transport system offering an attractive alternative to cars in the city better walking and cycling so active transport is good for everyone from 8 to 80 measures like congestion pricing to discourage use of private vehicles There will always be congestion, but people will be able to choose congestion-free alternatives. Like gluten-free bread, you don’t have to eat it, but if you want to, the choice is yours. Let’s stop being a city of captive drivers, where many people have no practical choice except to drive their cars.

Updated Feeds

Recently updated feeds from local organisations.