Each year my family spends Christmas/New Year with my parents. The whole family gets together and all except one of us has to travel a long way. And it’s worth it as we all come together for the celebrations. 🙂
Travel Planning Goes Walkabout
Many years ago my family started Continue reading
I’m feeling chuffed.
Let me tell you why.
Last year, my local parliament began an Inquiry into Vulnerable Road Users. ‘Vulnerable road users’ are us when we aren’t inside the steel of a car, van or truck – such as when we are walking, riding a bicycle or motorbike.
The parliamentary committee called for ‘public submissions’. That means that anyone can send their views in.
How to you travel around each day to do the things you do?
Do you drive a car? Get a lift with someone? Catch a bus, train, tram or ferry? Ride a bike? Walk? (Here’s something to think about: unless you can’t actually walk, we all walk for at least part of our journeys.)
Why do you choose to travel the way you do? Continue reading
Recently completed residential units in Kingston, ACT, Australia. (I could have chosen some even newer and more boring ones in the same suburb, but these were handy.)
Image by Gillian King, CC BY-NC-SA
In my last post I wrote about the current and emerging complicated and complex challenges for urban planning and development and how collaboration can address these challenges – and get good outcomes.
If you were planning a new urban development – or a new home – what would be your goals for addressing these challenges?
Think about it for a moment.
If you were living or working in – or Continue reading
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To quote a well-known advertising campaign, Oh what a feeling!
But in my case that feeling didn’t come from buying – and using – a particular car.
Quite the opposite.
It came from NOT using my car.
Or, rather, it came from realising Continue reading