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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alas, we learn from history that we learn absolutely nothing from history.
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it's such a breath of fresh air (and aptly named too, then, I suppose)!
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my master's research project is on the integration of active modes with public transport to unlock mode shift away from private-car use—so there will indeed be much unpacking of this holy trinity!
so much potential there, for sure.
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really awesome work producing this so quickly.
also, as an aspiring transport planner, I appreciate you putting the concept of Level of Stress on my radar—clearly something about which I should've already known!
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Never forget, the electric car is here to save the car industry, not the planet.
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no question. to say it’s prime real estate is such an understatement.
the number of additional people who could not only be housed more generally but also be within easy walking of Mt Vic greenbelt, waterfront, Basin Reserve, and—most importantly—KC Cafe is painful to dream on.
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I remember my excitement for Uber; they got big as I finished uni, and I would’ve killed to work for them.
your book was brilliantly confronting: a sobering personal reminder of how seductive-yet-destructive tech can be when we fail to scrutinise their offerings.
you’ve shifted my whole outlook.
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yup, shame on Stuff/Ryan Anderson for selling out to incendiary clickbait and failing spectacularly to mention the plethora of research showing the positive effects that cycling and better car-light infrastructure have on businesses and the city as a whole (or that climate crises require changes).
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Agreed!
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to picture a realistic owner of such a metallic abomination and then to imagine said owner feeling genuine concern for other people on the outside of their wheeled monstrosity is a difficult exercise for me.
but hey, as long as everyone on the *inside* is safe, it’s done its job, right?
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the reporting of that story drove me absolutely mad.
I suppose the only silver lining was that it showed our society’s car brain/motonormativity is non-discriminatory: whether for a dog-walking commoner or a millionaire sports star, headlines will misrepresent the incident with painful consistency.
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this looks glorious!
also, when pedestrians get more than just a 1.4m crumb of footpath space, it’s less of an issue when the business puts their sandwich board right in the centre 😆