Posts by Sacha
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Hard News: Lowering the Stakes, in reply to Moz,
Applaud your reasoning. :)
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Hard News: Lowering the Stakes, in reply to Keir Leslie,
the world doesn’t revolve around the maintenance of the highest possible speed of cars
Sacrilege to the ears of traffic engineers. It's a root belief that must be firmly overturned to solve many transport problems.
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Transportblog fisks the AT study gently.
A couple of quick thoughts spring to mind about these intersections, on Quay St/Lower Albert is it cyclists travelling through the intersection while the pedestrian phase is running? On Tamaki Dr are the numbers high due to pack cycling? At Tamaki Dr/Paterson Ave there was clear trend of cyclists running red lights towards the city in the mornings and away from the city in the afternoons. On both the Quay St/Lower Albert and Tamaki Dr/Solent St intersections the red light running by cyclists was almost exclusively by those going westbound. Why are westbound cyclists more likely to run reds at the intersections (perhaps at the Solent St intersection it is to do with the cycle lane on the footpath being clogged up with traffic signals?
However as I said, there were really just four intersections that were studied and I doubt they give a fair representation about how most cyclists at intersections behave. By releasing the information as it has I wonder if AT have done more harm than just letting the issue blow over. The information and how it has been reported in the Herald and other sites is only helping to create an us vs them attitude between different modes which is exactly the opposite of what needs to be happening.
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Hard News: Lowering the Stakes, in reply to George Darroch,
not a good look for Auckland Council
Auckland Transport
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Hard News: Lowering the Stakes, in reply to Jon Briggs,
have left a ridge in the road about where a bike would normally be.
Sounds highly relevant - trucks wreck roads unless maintenance frequencies are shortened. This government's directing of expenditure away from local road maintenance into building more highways has left major roads with sub-standard surfaces. Mr Tangiia was also an inexperienced cyclist who may not have looked for hazards like that.
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Hard News: Lowering the Stakes, in reply to Deborah,
We need to stop having this bizarre idea that we should design roads that only work if people behave perfectly.
Yes. Our transport authorities spend considerably more money reworking roads to be more forgiving of driver error than doing the same for cyclists.
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Hard News: Holiday Music: Pop TV Lives, in reply to JacksonP,
Amazing documentary on New Order’s iconic Blue Monday
Wow. Thank you.
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Hard News: Friday Music: Whine Festival, in reply to Sol K,
Bassment Jaxx, Goldie, Chemical Bros in the super top. My brain exploded
not surprised
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Hard News: Friday Music: Whine Festival, in reply to Gareth Davidson,
Meanwhile in Sudan
#teeworthy
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Capture: Coast to Coast, in reply to Hebe,
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