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  • Contraflow streets in the City of Sydney

    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…

  • Swimming in the Sydney CBD – Marrinawi Cove

    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…

  • Sydney CBD is bringing back pedestrian “beg buttons”

    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.

  • Mapping Sydney Billboards: Every QMS advertising panel in Sydney

    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.…