June 2011
5000+ →
“5000+ is asking for ideas to help redesign and renew inner Adelaide as a more cosmopolitan centre – a place where all kinds of people of will want to work, play, visit and live prosperous lives.”
Queenslandersign →
Queensland Design website launched last night at the Premier’s Design Awards
April 2011 | Map of Underground Metro Subway... →
elizabethphungphotos:
Bicycle sharing program in Hangzhou is the largest in the world with over 50,000 cycles, 2,050 stations, and average daily ridership of 240,000.
Exclusive Photos of the next part of the Hight... →
(via An App That Organizes Your City by Travel Time - Transportation - GOOD)
Queensland Cycle Strategy (PDF, 730.2 KB)
– Queensland Cycle Strategy (Department of Transport and Main Roads)
Planning Guidelines for Walking and Cycling →
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South-East Queensland’s transport system is strained to breaking point,...
– “Public transport one-dimensional
The report said while TransLink was focused on public transport - trains, buses and ferries - it did not take into account ‘active’ transport elements such as walking and cycling.
“Failing to include active transport elements means that the...
irishboyinlondon:
Jan Gehl - Livable Cities. I have city envy! A place that recognises that “people want to be with people” and can work that ethos into policy and deliver it! Jan Gehl has done such good work forwarding the cause for human scale and liveable spaces!
twilightfades:
I want to live in a pedestrian-centered city!
Britons unmoved by pro-cycling campaigns →
irishboyinlondon:
Photograph: Toby Melville/Reuters
The Guardian report on the findings of a new study entitled “Understanding Walking & Cycling” produced collaboration between Lancaster University, the University of Leeds and Oxford Brookes University. Worth reading if initially dispiriting (some extracts below)!
The debate is ongoing continually - segregated cycle lanes or mixed...
May 2011