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Green Lights More Often: The Secret 2018 Study of Sydney’s Traffic Signals
On the 7th of January 2018, Transport for NSW (TfNSW) pulled off something extraordinary – and I personally paid $441 to obtain the previously secret reports documenting it. With such impressive results, why doesn’t TfNSW do it again?
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Introducing the Heart Foundation’s Community Walkability Map
I’m pleased to share the completion of a recent commercial engagement with the Heart Foundation: the Community Walkability Map, a new interactive tool designed to help communities understand and advocate for more walkable, healthier neighbourhoods.
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Not enough funding for Sydney Park Junction – Addendum REF to cut scope
On the 20th of November 2024, Jenny Leong (the Green’s MP for Newtown) asked the State Minister for Transport 21 detailed questions in NSW Parliament regarding the status and fate of the infamous TfNSW Sydney Park Junction project. The public received a response from the Minister for Transport on the 20th of December 2024, which only included answers…
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No Signal for Pedestrian Safety: TfNSW Refuses Signal Data During National Road Safety Week
This week is National Road Safety Week. Traffic injury is the biggest killer of Australian children under 15 and the second-biggest killer of all Australians aged between 15 and 24. 50 people walking are killed on NSW roads and streets every year and this figure is trending up. Many of these people are killed waiting…
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5 Years at Atlassian, and what’s next
After 5 years, I’m leaving Atlassian to take a gap year; and by gap year I mean a little travel, and a lots of time to explore hobbies, side-projects, and consulting in the space between software and urbanism.
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Sydney Park Junction: TfNSW Won’t Commit to Original Scope Despite Ministerial Intervention
TfNSW won’t confirm the Sydney Park Junction project scope even though “Haylen’s office confirmed the upgrades would take place as the initial proposal publicly exhibited in 2021”.
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Better Streets submission to the Epping Bridge Project
The Epping Bridge Project is first and foremost a road widening project (5 car lanes to 7 car lanes). It does not follow Transport for NSW’s own Road User and Space Allocation Policy or Movement & Place design framework, and at $220 million costs double the allocation for active transport for the entire state over…
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Another broken WestConnex promise: secret Sydney Park Junction design changes
Ever wondered why there are random dead ends for cycle paths in Sydney? This is a deep dive on how one particular missing link might not get fixed after more than seven years of planning. Let this be a record of how hard it is to get safe cycling intersections built in Sydney, even when…
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Why Did the Chicken Catch the Metro? Because It Was Faster Than Crossing the Road…
Sydney’s phenomenal new metro takes only ~100 seconds (1m40s) to travel from Central Station to the new Waterloo Station. However, you could be stuck waiting up to ~111 seconds (1m 51s) to cross Botany Rd just outside the Waterloo metro station when you arrive!
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Jake Coppinger nominated for Young Sydneysider of the Year Award (Committee for Sydney)
I’m incredibly humbled to have been nominated for the Committee for Sydney’s Young Sydneysider of the Year award!
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Preliminary analysis of Better Intersections data
These are a collection of charts picking apart the Better Intersections dataset. They provide multiple avenues to find further patterns in complex and incomplete date, but also as a tool for communicating and demonstrating improvement over time (or perhaps lack thereof).
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Better Streets submission to the North Bondi Shops and Bus Terminus Upgrade
This is a lightly edited version of a submission I wrote on behalf of Better Streets for the public comment opportunity regarding the North Bondi Shops and Bus Terminus Upgrade.
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Which Australian councils are building the most cycleways?
Australian Cycleway Stats is a dashboard that provides an in-depth look at the kilometres of cycleways and safe streets in every Australian council, encompassing current, under-construction, and proposed projects, as well as international benchmarks.
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Contraflow streets in the City of Sydney
The City of Sydney has recently approved 159 suitable streets across 24 suburbs, which will greatly improve the network of legal cycling routes in inner city Sydney. This blog post is a proposal of additional streets which may be suitable for basic contraflow cycling infrastructure that the council could install in future, with a focus…
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Mapping pedestrian traffic light timing in Sydney, Australia
Better Intersections is a tool to record and visualise timing details for pedestrian and bicycle signals. In the absence of traffic light timing data, and as we hold hope for it to become publicly available; the aim of Better Intersections is to crowdsource measurements and inform where positive changes could be made.
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Subterranean Sydney: A cross-section of Town Hall Station made with iPhone LiDAR
Using just an iPhone with LiDAR to create a cross-section 3D model and image of Town Hall Station with the LiDAR sensor on an iPhone.
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Canada Bay Council plans to remove Heath St cycleway due to a misleading traffic report
Canada Bay Council plans to remove the cycleway it received $7m of state funding for. In this analysis I outline errors and flaws in the engineering report recommending the removal (which has now been hidden from the Canada Bay Council website).
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Generating aerial imagery with your iPhone’s LiDAR sensor
This technical guide details how you can create your own aerial imagery and 3D models of streets with the built in iPhone LiDAR sensor and open source tools in the OpenDroneMap package.
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Lane-accurate street maps with OpenStreetMap – writing a vector tileserver for osm2streets
I’ve built safecyclingmap.com, an open-source proof of concept map that renders cycleways and streets down to the individual lanes, to assist cyclists picking safe routes in cities with little dedicated cycling infrastructure.