Low carbon transport part 1: focus on affluent lifestyles
Here’s the crux of a major problem facing the South African transport sector. Ethics demands that…
Low carbon passenger transport – keeping it simple
Peta Wolpe of Sustainable Energy Africa (SEA) challenged me some years ago in her characteristically incisive…
“Too much information” Mothering liftclubs
The problem is that when it comes to lift clubs for children and teenagers, I have…
Being human on Cape Town’s Open Streets
Towards the end of Sunday’s Bree Open Streets Day I finally took some time to sit…
Mommy PhD: Biting tails
Over the last few weeks of my PhD my Facebook posts grew in number and prophetic…
Mommy PhD: The Downer
Shortly after finishing the PhD people starting telling me that it was really common to get…
“Welcome to Cape Town! The first thing you need to know? It’s treacherous to cross the roads…”
“In Cape Town”, she said, “the green men are ‘shy’ and drivers don’t care about pedestrians.…
Data sources for road death and injury in the Cape
A query came in yesterday on data sources. As far as I know, this is what’s…
PhD Starting out – “the space”
(The first in a series of posts baring some hard-won lessons about being a PhD student,…
From Sea to Mountain: time to re-frame the City?
One of the more visionary elements in the current Foreshore Proposals is the ‘eye’ which would…
Mommy PhD: F-f-f-formatting
The biggest time sink as hand-in date approached was no-one’s fault but mine and it boiled…
Mommy PhD: The last steps
At last – the publisher! I handed over the PhD in PDF. Got the quote; approved…
Freeways: who decides what’s re-presented?
The Foreshore Freeways have been controversial from the outset. As the Long Street extension to Culemborg…
Ghosts of children and reality checks at road safety meeting
Some years ago I taught basic road engineering to a group of largely uninterested third year…
PhD: The unresolved childhood theory (1)
I have a pet theory that the PhD process is at least part about unresolved issues…
Mommy PhD: The last 500m
Surely, I thought, I will get to the printer today?! All I need to do is…
“Motorized” normal?
Call me crass for making the point but I can’t read “Non Motorized” without thinking “Non…
Small is beautiful: on NMT infrastructure
“Without large and expensive investments for public (mass) transport or situations such as the cycle…
The struggle to respect, and street scripts
In an earlier blogpost I wrote about my attempts to make “random acts of kindness” an…
On “co-benefits” and gazing
So I’m sitting here thinking: how do I make an interesting “hook” out of the word:…
Who judges the gold BRT standard?
The Twitterverse has been abuzz this week with news that ITDP, well known transport US-based NGO…