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roelandschks.bsky.social
Auckland suburbanite and former urbanite. got an old school blog thing. https://wrongsideofmycar.blogspot.com/
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Look at this motorway gantry sign: you can now answer two questions about our traffic rules: - left hand traffic or right hand traffic? - keep [left/right] unless passing, or pick any lane?

submitted 36 days ago • 1 comment

New blog post, wherein we wonder if you can be both an urbanist and a parent. Is that possible, or do you have to choose? (and yes, we’re stretching the definition of ‘suitable for kids’ quite a bit here) wrongsideofmycar.blogspot.com/2025/04/city...

submitted 37 days ago • 1 comment

“21th day of railway strikes this year [in Belgium]” It is April. That is on average more than one day per week. www.vrt.be/vrtnws/nl/20...

submitted 43 days ago • 2 comments

I think this video by @nerd4cities.bsky.social captures pretty well the vibes in Auckland… somewhere around 2017. We used to have a certain level of forward momentum. Better things to look forward to. How times change.

submitted 48 days ago • 1 comment

Opportunities in Auckland

submitted 54 days ago • 2 comments

Some say it is difficult to still expand our motorway network, but in reality we are leaving an entire foreshore on the table. (now is the chance, the wider area is in such steep decline it is actually losing population)

submitted 57 days ago • 0 comments

Is it just me or are we just hideously bad at traffic light phasing? Case in point: what is the use of 60 second green phases for Victoria Street here? There's room for, what, 8 cars to queue between there and Queen Street? So, everyone else has to wait another 40 seconds to see nothing moving.

submitted 58 days ago • 0 comments