car free day Archive

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  King’s new road may be illegal - by frog

  
  
  
  With its announcement that it will use the Auckland Regional Fuel Tax to fund 80 percent of a new road in northern Auckland the government has just earned two more black marks against it’s records on issues that are plaguing it during the campaign; trustworthiness and illegality. The road, Penlink, which will cost $183 million [...] read more
  October 8, 2008 10:03 am - 6 Comments
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  Car Free Day – Christchurch - by frog

  
  
  
  I’ve received this Car Free Day report from the Aoraki Greens in Christchurch: Jeanette Fitzsimons joined 5 local candidates plus a dozen active members and engaged with almost 2,000 commuters. We handed out nifty stickers with the message “Super Heroes Don’t Drive Cars” and the recently released Green Party transport policy leaflet, which highlights our [...] read more
  September 24, 2008 9:01 am - 4 Comments
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  Transport policy – $1 off peak fares anywhere in your city - by frog

  
  
  
  Jeanette announced the Greens’ transport policy – ‘Smart Moves’ yesterday at one of Wellington’s Car Free Day events. She noted that the key elements of the policy were ‘more choices for commuters and protection from prices at the petrol pump.’ Here’s the problem: This year we are spending just under $2 billion on roading work, [...] read more
  September 22, 2008 3:31 pm - 53 Comments
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  Car Free Day – Wellington - by frog

  
  
  
  This photo below shows the space fifty people in cars take, and the space taken by the same amount of people in a bus.  It’s also supposed to show the space the same number of people on bicycles take up, but the cyclists seem to be mingling in sociably with pedestrians and and other gadabouts [...] read more
  September 22, 2008 12:21 pm - 19 Comments
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  Rogues dash across the bridge - by frog

  
  
  
  Heh heh.  I like the occasional good bit of rogue political protest so long as it’s harmless.  It keeps our democracy healthy.  So good fun to hear that several dozen cyclists broke away from the Getacross Car Free Day gathering near the Auckland Harbour Bridge to make an ‘illegal dash over the southbound clip-on‘ to [...] read more
  September 22, 2008 10:49 am - 13 Comments
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  Car Free Day – more from China - by frog

  
  
  
  Beijing’s massive traffic restriction programme, launched just before the Olympics is coming to an end: The return to Beijing’s traffic- and smog-heavy status quo will mark the end of what may have been the world’s largest pollution control experiment: a restriction on cars, factories and construction that lasted for two months and resulted in the [...] read more
  September 19, 2008 9:18 am - 10 Comments
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  Car Free Day: Auckland - by frog

  
  
  
  There’s a whole bunch of South Shore Aucklanders on bikes who want to hang out with a whole bunch of North Shore Aucklanders but they can’t because there’s a small tract of water in the way and they are not allowed to pedal or walk across the bridge spanning the Waitamata Harbour. So at 2 [...] read more
  September 17, 2008 10:16 am - 6 Comments
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  Car Free Day in China - by frog

  
  
  
  Have I mentioned it’s Car Free Day soon?  Oh I have.  Well, China has thrown out quite a big “I dare you“: China plans to ban cars from streets in 108 cities in its first “No Car Day” on Sept. 22, part of an effort to promote environmental protection and ease congestion in the world’s [...] read more
  September 14, 2008 7:03 am - 36 Comments
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  Car Free Day – some more propaganda from Chevrolet - by frog

  
  
  
  As we prepare for Car Free Day on September 22, here’s more from the Prelinger Archives. This particular piece of Chevrolet’s automobile pomposity is excused, due to having been filmed in 1933. Watch the impact that cars were having on our environment and communities (including the “Borneo Wild man”) even 75 years ago. [Frog: Mercifully, [...] read more
  September 12, 2008 8:54 am - 7 Comments
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  Car Free Day, 22 September - by frog

  
  
  
  Yup, it’s coming again.  Last year Hamilton offered all it’s citizens free bus rides during Car Free Day. And there are guaranteed to be interesting, innovative and freedom promoting things happening in towns and cities around NZ again this year. (In fact why not let us know what’s happening in your town in the comments [...] read more
  September 11, 2008 8:51 am - 6 Comments