Auckland Council and its transport wing, Auckland Transport, have paid lip service to the idea that the city needs a similarly radical redesign. AT has signed on as a Vision Zero organisation, committing to aim towards achieving no deaths or serious injuries on its transport network by 2050. Councillors unanimously voted to declare a climate emergency in 2019.
Many people took these declarations as a sign that the council wants to take ambitious action. They couldn’t have been more wrong. Our civic leaders have responded by committing even more urgently to painful incrementalism and bureaucratic caution. If its performance on public transport is uninspiring, its approach to active transit makes Wellington’s management of its wastewater network look efficient and comprehensive.
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