Saw some guy complain about: "Using ‘urban design’ to force PT down their throats when most families have several essential vehicles?" I wonder why he thinks "most families have several essential vehicles" Whats worse is he's worked as a senior government adviser in transport and housing
Ah yes, the Alpha Wolf fallacy.
“We can’t have prison abolition, have you seen how violent people are [when they are raised in a colonial culture that devalues conflict mediation in favor of simply arresting the powerless to coddle the powerful, then mocks, degrades, starves, and dehouses the powerless because they can]?”
Well that figures
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as always, it makes sense when you realise that cars are citizens and people are not.
He must be living pasifika-style style in a multi-generational extended family household, right. Right?
LOL *insert goose meme here*
WTF is an "essential vehicle"? Is his car providing him with life support or something?
He's driving several ambulances 🚑
Whatever he's driving, he's desperately needs a wambulance.
For people living in rural towns it's the equivalent to 'vehicle' for you townies With no medical services, no supermarket, no petrol station, no high school, no bus service, no post office, no bank, no pharmacy, no hairdresser, no restaurant, no tyre service, no mechanic, etc., a car is essential
The guy was complaining about "urban design" so I assume he's not talking about rural towns. If that is what he meant, well I'm skeptical that there are any rural towns trying to "push public transport down people's throats", whether via urban design or not.
He was talking about an inner Auckland suburb
I know it doesn't look like it, but we *do* have urban planning But no public transport Sorry, I am unwell and I tried to think what 'PT' meant, but it eluded me. I think I'm best off reading my book with a toddy and a couple of paracetamol and leave the socials to tomorrow 🌞
Hope you feel better.
Sorry, I can't hear you over my own chanting of "peak car importing per capita was back in 2018" bsky.app/profile/thou...
As it happens I am awaiting getting an old snapshot of the exact fleet composition to compare to the current, so I will have some more detail (beyond imports) to talk about at some point.
I am also interested in the per-capita chart.
I can do an exact imports/capita graph at the end of this week (after the release of population data on Thursday), and my guess is I will have been supplied with and done something with fleet data in the next four weeks.
Here is monthly imports per capita (monthly 15+ population- driving age). More fleet stuff to come when I get some data in the next month.
Wow. Fantastic. Thats just used? Or both?
I think I remember seeing at this level it is both (Infoshare : Imports and exports : Key Stats 7.02 Quantity of Principle imports - by commodity (SH) (Monthly) the underlying data is available from www.stats.govt.nz/large-datase... and breaks down to "new motor" and "used motor" and exact types
Thanls David. Super usefyl
And this is number of actively registered passenger cars and vans per driving age capita since 2017. Some lockdown affects, but it is another dataset suggesting peak car.
VKT per capita is worth a look too
Pulling the VTK (annual) and matching to the mid-period population, I get this. So same general vibe.
Great stuff. Thanks David
Motorcycles per capita is flat, or another way of putting it is stopped they increasing in 2023.
Fully a third of the population can’t or don’t drive: too old, too young, too poor, too ill, don’t wanna. These people are excluded from society and the economy by most transport thinking. Including Barry’s.
