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.
The Wellington Phoenix have secured their third home win of the new Isuzu UTE A-League season to rise up a congested ladder. The Phoenix have beaten Central Coast Mariners 3-1 in their Nixmas match at Sky Stadium thanks to goals... The post Isuzu UTE A-League Round 9 Match Review appeared first on Wellington Phoenix.
Plane Sense has been to the High Court from the 17-19 November 2025 and a judgement will be issued in the New Year. The case focused on whether the process used to introduce the flight path system aka Divergent Missed Approach Protection System (DMAPs) on 1 December 2022 was lawful. The hearing examined the decision-makingContinue reading "Plane Sense has been to the High Court"
Waka Kotahi- New Zealand Transport Agency has undertaken a very short public consultation on the proposed major Wellington transport project aka – a second Mt Victoria tunnel, a second Terrace tunnel and all the associated works https://nzta.
Club Rugby wishes everyone a merry Christmas and a happy New Year. This is probably our last article of the year, so after this we will see you on the other side! A few bits and pieces as the year winds down and the summer season kicks in. +++++ In the last tournament of the...
