jakecopp

Wrote this up on a just-realised project by the road authority in Sydney to widen an urban arterial road. This stuff does not belong in the 2020s.

Perhaps you may enjoy the citation style if you’re not from Australia!

> s/the Media Report/the Australian Media Report/

Yes - apologies. I didn't want to change the title from the original.

I wrote this after disappointing media coverage of the death of a cyclist in Sydney, in the area known as Tech Central - where Atlassian, Block and many other tech companies are located.

I made a Freedom of Information request to learn what happened in Sydney when traffic signal cycle times were made 20 seconds faster.

I've also done some basic analysis and embedded Observable charts. All documents and code is open source! Curious to hear what you think.

> Weathergraph was then ported to Garmin (as Pebble shut down), and then to Apple Watch widget

I don't think I was a particularly early user of Weathergraph - but when I finally had to retire my Pebble Time I only considered platforms that had your watchface.

Thanks very much for the attention to detail!

I wrote this blog post up to detail secret design changes to a separated cycleway intersection in Sydney that have been in the works for at least 7 years.

It's a record of how hard it is to get safe cycling intersections built in Sydney, even when the improvements are required approval conditions of a $4.3 billion portion of a motorway project (yes – Sydney is still building urban motorways this century).

That a “major design feature” or “key consideration of the proposal” could be deleted in secret, 2 years after going through community consultation, 3 years after the Review of Environmental Factors, 7 years after the initial M8 (WestConnex) approval condition B51 concept design, and announced by omission floored everyone in the room.

Came here to say this - looks awfully like OSM data and no attribution.

I'm also not clear on whether Google likes displaying OSM data on their map; it's a strange combination. I can't ever remember seeing "Copyright Google, Copyright OpenStreetMap contributors" in the footer of a page.

Thanks! It does seem to have lots of cycleways but I think it's helped by it's low density and small area (with the airport).

> It could be beneficial to have the ability filter out rural councils, and focus on denser urban areas.

I agree - I think comparisons by area and by density would be really interesting.

> For more retail appeal, you could consider some quick headline numbers at the top as bullet points. For example, the most cycle-friendly council, the worst (excluding rural), the most improved.

I hadn't thought of that but I think that's a great idea, thanks!