Reading through the whole report, I was getting tears in my eyes about possible solutions to climate change being discussed and with luck and the right people voted in who care about the city and planet we live on, a chance to get implemented.
I don’t have kids yet, but I hope that by the time that we do that a lot of these are implemented so they can grow up in a safe city where they don’t have to rely on their parents to take them everywhere in a plastic and metal box.

New Zealand is by some measures the second most car dependent nation on the planet – and Christchurch the most car dependent within New Zealand. Arguably that makes Christchurch one of the most car dependent cities anywhere. There is a lot of scope for nurturing alternatives – if other cities are less car dependent we could be too. With a whole host of benefits… reduced air pollution that causes illness and death, reduced noise pollution that also causes illness and stress. And on the positive – safer streets, more mobility for children and women, and a healthier more active population overall.