Category: walking and cycling
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The term ahead for the Waitakere Ranges Local Board
I have the privilege of being re elected as chair of the Waitakere Ranges Local Board and Michelle Clayton is the deputy chair. This is an excerpt from my speech to this term’s inaugural local board meeting.
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The politics of opposition to cycleways
Politicians thinking that opposition to walking and cycling measures is popular may have dramatically misread the public’s mood.
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The Glen Eden Cycleway
This is my personal take on local interest in the Glen Eden Cycleway recently created on part of Captain Scott Road. Cycleways have been in the news lately. They seem to provoke considerable dissent wherever they are implemented. If they are stand alone new infrastructure then opposition is muted. But Auckland in particular is so…
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The Climate Commission report and Auckland Council’s cycleways funding
The Climate Commission has released for consultation its draft report setting out what it thinks needs to happen for the country to be carbon neutral by 2050. Its vision statement sets out how it wishes New Zealand to develop and includes this passage: It is an Aotearoa where cities and towns are created around people…
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Auckland Council’s emergency budget
The Emergency Budget consultation is now under way. Auckland Council’s budget consultation documents suggest there is no business as usual option for Auckland Council. And they are correct. But I am worried that the draft focusses entirely on financial matters and ignores the community and environmental repercussions of what is clearly an austerity budget. The…