The Wrong Side of my Car

The blog that wants to go obsolete

3 years later, pedestrians (and cyclists) did not gain right of passage across Cook Street

Who remembers this diagram?

That was 3 years ago. In this post I wrote:

there’s only so much you can do before the automobiles strike back.

Ah yes. That was eerily prescient. The cycling team got the chop, and this project (and many others) languished. See also the Greater Auckland post. This stuff has real consequences.

Meanwhile, ever more apartments come up in this area. Sugartree finished, and would anyone be surprised if I told you those businesses on the ground floor died?

Oh, and also the fancy new waterfront opened, you can walk there, first you —

Oh wait.

—cross Cook Street. Rrrright.

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