Disappearing Traffic
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Spark My Potential
16 October 2014The wonderful folks at the Spark Foundation and 'Spark My Potential' have offered me coaching and other help to put my cause into better shape, with the possibility of displaying it on the 'Spark My Potential' website, and matching some of the funds we raise once the total crosses a minimum threshold. So if you have come here and wonder why there have not been more updates, it is because we are working hard to get that ready. You can still donate to this page, and it will be transferred to the new one, assuming there is a new one, and if so, any donations here will contribute to meeting that threshold amount. The planned launch date for the new page is 23 October.
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Update for 01/10/2014
1 October 2014Why this page is called 'disappearing traffic'. From Wikipedia: Disappearing traffic, also sometimes referred to as suppressed traffic or traffic evaporation, relates to the observation that when highway capacity is reduced (typically due to provision of lanes for buses, street-running trams or bicycles, wider pavements (sidewalks), pedestrianisation, closures for road maintenance, or natural disasters) some proportion of the traffic disappears, resulting in fewer problems of congestion than had been expected. Our cause is an exploration of methods for making traffic disappear without the reduction of physical capacity, to make the existing capacity work better.
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Update for 01/10/2014
1 October 2014I just got the bare bones of the cause page set up. More information to come. If you would like to see the program for the Congress (and the details of the session I have been invited to moderate, on page 8) look here: https://www.irfnews.org/wp-content/uploads/2014-AsiaRC-WEB.pdf. My budget for travel to the Congress (from Auckland), including hotel and meals for the three days is about $2,000 NZD. I was not sure if I should set the target at that amount or less, so I set it at $1,000. Open to suggestions. If you like what I am doing, please support my efforts with a small donation. Together we might just be able to 'do something about the traffic'. And check out the Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/disappearingtraffic
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