Cranes in the sky
Ballet in the sky! It is hardly Shanghai but then again these cranes are not building (yet) they are helping to lower bits and pieces from multiple high-rises assessed unsafe as after the ferocious earthquake in Feb 2011
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Christchurch - a city that is really pumping!
A different sort of beauty to the previous post; pure muscle and pumping power, dozens of such vehicles, keep a significant our city portion of pumpin', whether water, waste water or sewage.
Christchurch - Still Beautiful in so many ways!
Elmwood Park In Heaton Street on the Metrostar bus route
Creating core service patterns for Christchurch bus services
Whiteleigh Ave. near Tower Junction. In a local authority supported bus system where the two cars in the foreground are turning would become a permanent bus only/bus queue jumper lane (the traffic island reduced accordingly) with an inside cycle lane. The footpath would be moved three metres sideways and a new left turning lane for cars would be cut into the over generous grass berm. Bus passengers here are waiting - as hundreds of thousands on this route do each year - for a Council committed to bus services! But should the Metro seek to create a fully integrated system first and then look for the blockages Council so needs to address? NZ in Tranzit gets right to the core of 21st century public transport ! I believe Metro and company are doing a revamp of city bus services. Actually from what I gather they are downsizing services due to reduced income [consequence of the earthquake] and to a Government committed to "cost efficiency" in public and school transport [...
Using our nodal in Opawa?
The house on the left here is for sale. About time. I have mentally being buying it for about three or four years. This area is a neck of roading between Opawa Road and the Brougham Expressway, the traffic lights of which are clearly visible. It has large islands of grass and full grown trees, which should not be lost. Seen in its less sylvan guise, a smoggy morning, the photo below shows morning traffic. This is looking in the same direction as above but this photo is taken from back about 100. metres. Note trucks crossing on expressway, a very busy road likely to get more so with the opening of the Souther Motorway extension. Or here seen below, from another angle, with a not uncommon queueing - often the stalled tail back from vehicles waiting on Ensors Road to cross Brougham Street Expressway stretches back through the very middle of this roundabout on Opawa Road, next block back. It is also a very tight roundabout, not conducive to smooth flow. ...
Key Government downgrades small city bus service funding
Saturday morning in Raglan - backpackers, younger teenagers and children, and elderly - the sort of comprehensive quality public transport social services in smaller centres likely to be shafted by the Key Government's public transport policies. Photo; NZ in Tranzit 2010 NZ Transport Agency has told regionally operated bus systems outside the main centres the Government funding contribution towards their social services will not increase for three years. Needless to say with inflation and escalation in oil costs this represents not so much as a levelling out of funding as a significant cutback in Government support for smaller cities. A recent article in The Southland Times; " Council's dream of better bus service kneecapped as funds cut" quotes the Invercargill City Council senior traffic management officer Eddie Cook as saying - " The NZ Transport Agency's decision not to increase funding to the council meant if the number ...