One of the many great local things to light up your pre-election world Every pre-election season it’s easy to feel a bit disempowered, as the Heavy Hitters make grand gestures about how they’ll change our country. It’s worth remembering that whatever the flavour of central government, the most meaningful and tangible changes come locally. Driven...
A temporary exemption in official classifications means we get to have e-scooters in NZ. But that exemption’s expiring and there’s real “baby goes out with bathwater” risk, so pop in your 2c BY 5PM MONDAY 7th! If you want to do this real quick, scroll to …. you guessed, it, our friend the typing cat!...
I spend my days working to build walking, cycling, and public transport infrastructure so I am pretty used to hearing something along the lines of “why bother with this stuff, when EV’s are going to save us from our climate problems?” Usually, I shrug this question off by discussing the many other reasons why we should boost active transport, such as healthier people and reduced congestion on the roads.
Riding e-bikes and scooters is often the most affordable and quickest way to get around Wellington, but the infrastructure has been lagging the growth of these new vehicles.
As NZ grapples with our attitudes to our objectively terrible road death rate (not to mention e-scooters, kids’ cycling, high-vis, speed limits etc), we must ask: what’s real, and what’s in our heads – what myths have we come to believe?
This article answers those questions, shedding an unflinching light on ourselves.
A recent piece on the sudden scuttling of a flagship London project for safer cycling sparked a few thoughts about local opposition to infrastructure for safer cycling – and e-scooting.
Join Te Papa’s curators for a fascinating array of talks on New Zealand’s natural history. The six titles published in the Te Papa Te Taiao Nature Series have been […]
“I want to do something splendid...something heroic or wonderful that won't be forgotten after I'm dead. I don't know what, but I'm on the watch for it and mean to astonish you all someday.” - 'Little Women' by Louisa May Alcott
