Tag: Transport
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Does the NZTA scheme measure up?
We’ve already begun discussing issues relevant to the Basin, particularly through blog posts …
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Peak Oil, Peak Car, and Resilient Cities…
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…
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Video of the Week – Future by Airbus
It has been a busy week here at the Architectural Centre website, but I couldn’t not post this one – so here is a little something for your Friday afternoon entertainment: Sweet!
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More roads? Less pollution – I don’t think so.
It’s no irony that at the moment when John Key is supposedly at a Climate Change Summit in Copenhagen: City of Cyclists, that the government is poised to increase road building – a 4-lane road from Levin to Wellington – via Transmission Gully or otherwise. While Key is fluffing around on the other side of…
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Fashion offensives
Architecture has historically had a difficult relationship with fashion, and, despite the challenges of the Urbis generation, it continues to perpetrate an image of consistent fundamentals, along with its younger siblings: Urban Design and Town Planning.
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Transport Priorities
Kerry Williamson today revealed in the Dom Post the regional councils transport priorities. That is to say those which they are petitioning the Government for assistance with. The top Items, with budgets, are as follows: TOP TRANSPORT PRIORITIES: Western Link Road stage 1 (Waikanae to Paraparaumu), $82 million. State Highway 1 Basin Reserve upgrade and bus lanes improvement,…