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"[ C hris] Bishop’s primary responsibility, other than completing Steven Joyce’s highway from Warkworth to Whangarei, is reforming the ...

O VER SUMMER ONE ALWAYS gets a few ideas. Some good, some questionable . Some that just seem obvious once they've occurred to you.  Here...

"Oops." Luxon-led policy-making takes a tumble I t's a rule in politics. The devils is not always in the details. It's of...

L eadership aspirant Chris Bishop headed to Auckland recently to tell us of the grand plans he will very kindly allow us to build. But befor...

New Zealand got its road-building ideas explicitly from American pre- and post-war ideas that highways were "the way of the future,...

"T he Prime Minister was elected on the basis that his previous career as CEO meant he had a much greater business acumen than Labour...

"[A] very large number of voters have a great deal in common with those raised-in-the-faith Catholics who genuflect reflexively before...

T e Huia is the occasional train between a Hamilton suburb and an Auckland one . Today the future of Te Huia is being decided by people ...

"R esidents of U.S. urban areas can reach far more jobs in a 20-minute auto drive than a 60-minute trip [by public transport]. The late...

"O ne of the first modes of rail travel to face a long-term decline was streetcars [aka trams, or light rail]. Streetcar route-miles pe...

"I t’s hard to believe someone thought that adding artificial blockages to roads would free people from their vehicle-addiction. As if ...

"I' ve wanted to write for a while about [so-called] 'induced demand,' the specious argument that expanded roads just fill ...

  " EXCI'SE. n.s. [ accijs , Dutch; excisum , Latin.] A hateful tax levied upon commodities, and adjudged not by the common judges...

"R ailway travelling is at best a compromise. The quite conceivable ideal of locomotive convenience, so far as travellers are concerned...

"T he primary problem with current cities is that they are extremely car-centric. We don't realise this because it's just every...

"B uild it and they will come," you will hear from self-appointed anti-car transport experts like Green MP Julianne Genter and the...

"I can’t help but think that Vision Zero is really more about inconveniencing auto drivers than increasing safety. Just three policies...

Late last week the government announced its new plan to spend billions of dollars on the light rail to Auckland airport it had promised to ...

"A s products of the split between man’s soul and body, there are two kinds of teachers of the Morality of Death: the mystics of spirit...

Let's Get Wellington Moving is more about the opposite, explains  The UnCivil Servant in this guest post . In a city, and a country, in...