I love a beautiful and well considered bridge!

Foster's Millau viaduct is so beautiful it is as if it floats on the clouds!

Indeed, the designers amongst us imagine them as streamlined and un-cluttered, perhaps with translucent edge zones, no barriers or signs, no streetlights, slender support structures that simply branch out of the ground… Read the rest of this entry »

We’ve already begun discussing issues relevant to the Basin, particularly through blog posts … Read the rest of this entry »

Sure it was ‘only’ an aspirational vision, but way back in 2007, there was this idea that we might become the first carbon neutral capital in the world – big promises to be sure, but just how are we doing… Read the rest of this entry »

We’re keen to evaluate the Basin Reserve, and have produced a Check List of items that we believe it needs to be evaluated against – as should any other possible Basin scheme as well.

We’ll be posting a critique of the official NZTA proposals next week – but first, Read the rest of this entry »

I’m sorry for the slightly profane character of the title to this post, but really, the Dominion Post editorial: Time for roading talk to go up a gear has raised my ire. Read the rest of this entry »

Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done Read the rest of this entry »

While the Wombles spent their lives underground and overground, they never really had to negotiate the politics of overpasses. Read the rest of this entry »