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sethbocknek.bsky.social

Master of Urban & Regional Planning student (transport & new urbanism 🚶‍♀️🚴 🚈) •• Les Mills GFI 🚴🏻‍♂️ •• 💈🎵 lifer •• recovering ex-translator (ZH/FR) •• EUC commuter 🛞 📍 🇨🇦→🇨🇳→🇳🇿 Pōneke, Aotearoa

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HOT RESEARCH NEWS! Motonormativity ("car brain") is a bias that stops people making rational judgements about driving en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motonor... Our new study shows where this bias comes from AND how it makes people think they're odd for supporting changes to the transport system 🧵

submitted 47 days ago • 32 comments

Another recent example of a reporter using “exonerative voice”: apparently, the vehicle was the one who performed the action, not the human operating it 🤷‍♂️ www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/vehicle-c...

submitted 102 days ago • 0 comments

I’ll never stop beating the drum of how incredible and underrated the bus is: some kind soul chauffeurs you—and people from all walks of life—around for a dollar while you observe the world through massive windows and intermittently use your phone without a care in the world. pure mobility bliss.

submitted 121 days ago • 0 comments

NZTA seems to have decided it would like to add another loop to the doom spiral that public transport in NZ has experienced ever since 1950: make a service less attractive, so cuts are made, so it is even less attractive, so more cuts are made, etc., etc.

submitted 129 days ago • 7 comments

really inspiring to see grassroots mobilisation pushing back against Doug Ford's regressive and ignorant approach to transport policy. the private car is a failed transport mode in urban environments; and the sooner we can move beyond automobility dominance, the better off we'll all be.

submitted 129 days ago • 0 comments

smouldering hot take: maybe, just maybe, there's no environmentally friendly or sustainable way of propelling township-scale floating resorts through marine ecosystems to give the affluent even more ways of recreationally overconsuming—and maybe cruises just shouldn't be a thing. 🤷‍♂️

submitted 131 days ago • 0 comments

“too small” is car-brain talk for “the city couldn’t accommodate mass transit while I and everyone I know continue to drive everywhere. It won’t work.” and that’s true. we must disincentivise automobility, to shift people out of cars and onto the side that has skin in the game of better transit.

submitted 144 days ago • 0 comments

This is important. Years ago, while I was advising the City of Sydney Australia on various things, there was an INFAMOUS day where a particularly bad state-level minister of roads was stuck in traffic and saw bike riders zooming by his limousine in a well-used, safe, protected bike-lane. Well… 1/

submitted 145 days ago • 26 comments

@chewienz.bsky.social just wanted to say your post-election BHN episode with Pat and Bomber was some of the best [and most therapeutic] post-result analysis I’ve heard out of any nation’s media. just an excellent conversation making some sense of the whole thing. Love your work!

submitted 147 days ago • 1 comment

félicitations, Paris! vous avez des élus bien sages et courageux (j’essaie d’enfouir ma jalousie de votre progrès).

submitted 153 days ago • 0 comments

just another #Pōneke morning sitting on the bus daydreaming of Kent/Cambridge’s potential if they had half-decent land use rather than the current litany of auto dealerships…

submitted 154 days ago • 1 comment

Our urban system should prioritise our most vulnerable road users (pedestrians, cyclists, etc.), who happen to be our most eco-friendly road users. Seeing pedestrians here in Aotearoa yield to turning vehicles (even those turning out of small side streets) still hurts my soul—system's backwards.

submitted 156 days ago • 0 comments

HUGE NEWS out of Canada: federal government planning high-speed rail along a new corridor that would link Toronto to Québec City via Montréal, potentially forking north to an Ottawa connection as well. needless to say (but I'll say it): would be game-changing. ici.radio-canada.ca/rci/en/news/...

submitted 157 days ago • 1 comment

more chef's kiss from @joelmacmanus.bsky.social 🧑‍🍳🤌 "The fact that Wellington City councillors constantly disagree with each other isn’t a bug, it’s a feature. It’s the point of democracy." I voted for higher rates and more services/cycleways. And I'd do it again. thespinoff.co.nz/politics/29-...

submitted 158 days ago • 0 comments

ten years have passed and we’re still being sold the fantasy of self-driving cars instead of getting on with building far better transit and bike lanes. i’m so tired of it all.

submitted 159 days ago • 54 comments

The Luxon Govt is fast-tracking NZ's first 'waste to energy' incinerator. Someone might profit, but it's a terrible way to generate electricity and it's a terrible way to deal with waste. Burning rubbish now UK’s dirtiest form of power www.bbc.com/news/article...

submitted 166 days ago • 1 comment

This video on motonormativity should be compulsory viewing in our school systems. www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_4G...

submitted 166 days ago • 1 comment

another day, another instance of @joelmacmanus.bsky.social doing god's work. my only gripe is that I feel mildly attacked given that this highly satirical piece is the actual lens through which I view our urban-mobility systems... I'll forgive you, Joel. nice one. thespinoff.co.nz/politics/18-...

submitted 167 days ago • 0 comments

I shouldn’t call this move shortsighted. that implies it may be justifiable in the short term. it isn’t. it is idiotic, today and all days. suppressing cycle lanes citing congestion is like swearing off rigorous exercise because it’s hard on your heart & lungs—that is precisely the desired effect.

submitted 171 days ago • 0 comments

halfway through a Master of Urban & Regional Planning, am already contemplating whether a more efficacious career would be one in politics. just like here in Aotearoa, planning—and all of the research, foresight, and ethics that go into it—is undermined & overruled by myopic political forces.

submitted 172 days ago • 0 comments

This is how our city streets should look: Inviting spaces where everything is at a human scale, for people to amble and interact with their environment & each other. Bravo, Montréal! 🇨🇦

submitted 173 days ago • 0 comments

I’d really love this on a t-shirt. automobility’s false promises, game theory pitfalls, and individualism double-standards—encapsulated in one pithy quote. chef’s kiss

submitted 180 days ago • 0 comments

@haydendonnell.bsky.social loved your "Traffic is made of cars" piece in @thespinoff.co.nz.web.brid.gy today! I mean, this is a case of the converted celebrating the preacher, but I'll celebrate you nonetheless: your ability to cover crux talking points succinctly, with humour—awesome writing.

submitted 180 days ago • 0 comments

I now can't unsee how much footpath space we allocate to car-specific assets: parking meters, parking/road signage, etc. That we commandeer what little space pedestrians—our most vulnerable & eco-friendly road users—have, for more car infrastructure, speaks to our societal priorities and values.

submitted 193 days ago • 0 comments