Tag: city of sydney
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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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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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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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Shining a Light on the Traffic Signals of Sydney
This blog post provides an overview of traffic signal operation in Sydney (focusing on the inner city), based on technical documentation, conversations with government & industry experts and data I’ve collected after building Better Intersections.
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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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Swimming in the Sydney CBD – Marrinawi Cove
Today Marrinawi Cove at Barangaroo opened for legal swimming after one final check of the shark net integrity. Sydney Morning Herald broke the story and the ABC wrote shortly after. According to the NSW state government it is the first new harbour swimming spot to open west of the Sydney Harbour Bridge in more than…
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Sydney CBD is bringing back pedestrian “beg buttons”
TfNSW have recently installed these around the Sydney CBD – a sticker on top of a pedestrian “beg button” explaining the button is redundant before 6am and after 10pm.
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Observations from Australia’s first Micromobility Conference
Over the weekend I attended Australia’s first micromobility conference. The sessions were organised into themes reflecting the challenges Australia faces in transitioning it’s transport network and urban planning – from car and highway dominated streets to a safer, lower emission and more pleasant city permitting cycling, walking and other journeys.
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Mapping Sydney Billboards: Every QMS advertising panel in Sydney
Map live at SydneyAdvertisingMap.com. See also: Max Bo’s analysis of how many placed next to Telstra telephones: https://observablehq.com/@mjbo/sydney-qms-panel-public-telephone-pairings If you live in Sydney you will have seen them – the 86 inch advertising screens in the City of Sydney Council. These advertising panels are known as communication pylons in the language of the developer approvals.…