It's hardly a secret that I love Melbourne. I generally consider it a well-planned city. It's certainly a town planning success compared to my former homes; planning often seems pretty much non-existent on the Gold Coast, Brisbane is hardly a shining light either, and Wellington is infamous for its narrow one-way streets. But like every city, ( Read more... )

After the interlude of my previous entry and a week or so of inactivity, I’d now like to return to this series, focusing on the potential for serious and substantial rail transport revitalisation in New Zealand. My first two entries focused on the upper and lower North Island. This entry shall look at the South Island, with Christchurch and ( Read more... )

Welcome back to the 2008 Shit Boring Entry Series, addressing the urgent need to fundamentally rethink transport planning, with specific focus upon New Zealand. Yesterday's entry introduced the series and discussed the potential of rail transport in the upper North Island. Today's entry shall bring those considerations to the lower North Island, ( Read more... )

I imagine this series of entries is going to be of interest to just about nobody (oh yeah, nothing like that sort of introduction to hook people!). It has evolved out of a procrastination exercise over the last couple of weeks to stop me from going absolutely insane with university work. I think it's a bit of a shame that the topic of ( Read more... )