For years, Auckland’s City Rail Link was treated as a kind of civic extravagance, a tunnel-shaped affront to fiscal sobriety. Every revision of its budget invited the same small chorus of disbelief. At about $5.5 billion, the CRL became evidence, for some, that public transport had grown too ambitious for its own good. Then came … Continue reading Another Bridge, or Another Century?
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Wellington Traffic Chaos
There is a particular mood to the road home on a Friday evening. The week has spent itself. People are thinking about dinner, children, groceries, a glass of something, perhaps nothing more ambitious than removing their shoes. The city is still moving, but its mind has already gone home. Then the traffic stops. At about … Continue reading Wellington Traffic Chaos
A Week Between Memory and Motion
Further to my previous blog - Thailand: Where Time Loiters Gracefully, my travels continued last month into Vietnam where I spent a week spent tracing the pulse of Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon) and the slow, resilient breath of its surrounding landscapes. The memory of it still lingers, as vivid as the city’s traffic at … Continue reading A Week Between Memory and Motion
Faultline Report 