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Timothy WelchThe Conversation |
Promoting fuel saving measures as vital to energy security would help frame the oil shock as a technical problem to be solved, not a political issue...
New Zealand generates more than 85% of its electricity from renewable sources, but transport remains almost entirely chained to imported oil.
The cost of ‘network disruption’ due to accidents is more than normal estimates suggest, casting doubt on the logic of raising speed limits to...
Other countries have learned to harness the economic and cultural energy of their super-cities, but New Zealand is held back by Auckland’s failure...
The Cook Strait ferry fiasco is just another symptom of a wider malaise: an inability to deliver, on time and at cost, the infrastructure that keeps...
Converting open-air car parks and creating green cooling corridors on transport routes is an easy and affordable way to beat the city heat as the...
Rule changes to allow larger granny flats follow a well-established pattern in New Zealand: modest reforms to address big and complicated problems.
Documents show the government is going against expert advice and strong economic evidence by insisting higher speed limits will improve productivity.