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Peter H wrote a new post, Local Dairies – Hamilton East to Rototuna North 2 hours, 57 minutes ago
Dairies in Hamilton East from Cobham Drive to Clarkin Rd were free to open where and how they felt it was right and convenient for them to do so until the 1960s. The average area serviced per dairy in this area […]
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Peter H wrote a new post, Hamilton North, Pukete to Maeroa Local Dairies 1 week ago
The development of Hamilton North can be used to show the negative outcome with regard to access to local dairies following the introduction of Hamilton District Scheme / Plan (DP) in the 1960s. The Maeroa area […]
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Andreas Henegar became a registered member 1 week ago
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Peter H wrote a new post, Hamilton North – Te Rapa – Pukete: Recreational Ring 4 weeks ago
Name Te Rapa for this part of the city needs to be allowed to change. Pukete appears to have had the longest history in this area. Pukete was named in the ferry crossing (Waipa Map 1864) in the golden years […]
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Peter H wrote a new post, In-Lane Bus Stops – the right to be frustrated 1 month ago
Do car drivers have a monopoly on ‘driver frustration’ over other road users? The argument for opposing in-lane bus stops is that it ‘will create driver frustration’ causing them to ‘create unsafe situations […]
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Peter H wrote a new post, Ulster St North bus stops – Beerescourt Shops to Maeroa intersection 1 month, 1 week ago
Ulster Street is just on 24m wide, which is more than enough room to provide traffic lanes for all types of traffic: walking, biking, buses and private motor vehicles. The WPS Comet Public Transport Route […]
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Peter H wrote a new post, Te Rapa road bus stops – Garnett Ave to Forest Lake Rd 1 month, 2 weeks ago
As part of the WPS Comet Public Transport Route Assessment (link) there are two new crossings proposed for the gap on Te Rapa road between Garnett Ave (Te Rapa shops) and Forest Lake road (Beerescourt Shops). One […]
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Peter H commented on the post, Why is the car carrier in the Bus stop? 1 month, 3 weeks ago
Parking fines go to the owner of the vehicle. This makes the vehicle owner at fault.
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Peter H wrote a new post, Why is the car carrier in the Bus stop? 1 month, 3 weeks ago
Car carrier driver “do you have a problem”
Bus user “you are parked in a bus stop”
Car carrier driver “yes I know”The answer is not ‘the business I am servicing has no loading/unloading area’. Because […]
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Peter H commented on the post, Waikato in the 1860s: from abundance to a time of hunger 2 months ago
Thanks for the comment – the colonial government and its supporters were wrong to invade and confiscate the land, and people have the right to be compensated for their loss.
The suffering of Waikato Maori with […] -
Peter H wrote a new post, Waikato in the 1860s: from abundance to a time of hunger 2 months ago
This post is part of a series of posts on my notes on the history of modern town planning, which have previously covered the periods from 1648-1806, 1800-1840s and 1840s-1850s.
Map from THE MAORI KING; by […]
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Peter H wrote a new post, Te Rapa Rd: improving bus stop access Home Straight to Garnett Ave / Vardon Rd 2 months, 1 week ago
At the Te Rapa Rd/Garnett Ave Intersection ‘There is no pedestrian crossing on the north leg of the intersection, so pedestrians will need to use three crossings to get safely across Te Rapa Road’ (p150 of WSP […]
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Peter H wrote a new post, Te Rapa Rd: improving bus stop access Mahana Rd – Home Straight 2 months, 2 weeks ago
Te Rapa straight was built as a 9-lane road in the late 1960s at a time when “It was considered that the prediction of future cycle trip movements would be of little value” (Hamilton transport study basic dat […]
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Peter H wrote a new post, Te Rapa Rd roundabout – improving bus stops by Bryant Rd 2 months, 3 weeks ago
The Te Rapa roundabout has so many auto-centred layers that it is impossible to describe how to make it safe for people not in a motor vehicle in a single post. The core issue is the design speed of the […]
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Peter H wrote a new post, Te Rapa Rd – improving bus stops by Northway St 3 months ago
This post looks at the future improvements to the bus stops at 671 and 674 Te Rapa Rd, just south of Northway Street by PB Tech. Information comes from a WSP report to HCC Infrastructure Operations Committee […]
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Peter H wrote a new post, New central city river crossing – Beale St to Knox St 3 months, 1 week ago
This post has three parts: (1) the future need for bus lanes across the river; (2) the height of the Bridge – let’s make it level; and (3) walking distance to bus stops – let’s make it equal to walking to car par […]
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Peter H wrote a new post, New central city river crossing – The Tronpier on the Tronway 3 months, 2 weeks ago
The Tronpier on the Tronway by Tony Banks (link) is full of great ideas. It starts with the idea that the bridge provides a long-term income for continuous improvement, the way is virtually level to make it […]
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Peter H wrote a new post, Germany and the golden age of the Waikato 1840s to 1850s: my notes 3 months, 3 weeks ago
These are my notes on the time leading up to modern planning. The purpose of this post is to provide references for future posts on the history of town planning.
From my notes on Germany from 1648 to 1806 […]
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Peter H wrote a new post, A bus bypass for bikes that is NOT a bike bypass 3 months, 4 weeks ago
The new mixed bike path/bus stop on Bryce St is designed to harm (refer paragraph C), is not efficient (refer paragraph B), and is not sensible (refer paragraph A). If only HCC had looked at the Dutch ‘design m […]
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Peter H wrote a new post, Te Rapa road bus stop patronage 4 months ago
A previous post on looked at how storm water is treated along Te Rapa (basically, storm water is hidden out of sight as fast as it arrives). This post looks at bus stop patronage; here we see a lot of patronage […]
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