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Introduction	I have contributed many formal submissions and informal suggestions to city and transit authorities, from Taupo to Texas and, mostly, in hometown Christchurch NZ. Think global - act local....as Normandy in 1944 was won hedgerow by hedgerow so must a sustainable world be built bus stop by bus stop!! .
Interests	Interested in public transport since February 2nd 1970, [Time Magazine article] when global warming was identified as a potential threat and I first realised cars and coal could kill our lovely planet! Christchurch city bus driver 1977-1990, subsequently a sight seeing bus driver. Worked for Christchurch City Libraries 1993-2017. Now retired. Author of three books on Christchurch's transport history - "The Lucifer; The Story of the 1932 Christchurch Tramway Strike" Dunford Press/Trade Union History Project 188pp 1988 "CTB - A brief Social history of the Christchurch Transport Board 1903-1989 CTB Reunion Committee 56pp 2003), "Port to Plains, Over and Under the Port Hills, the Story of the Lyttelton Railway Tunnel" Craigs. 204pp 2017 Advocate of various ideas (mainly public transport orientated) since 1981 to CTB, CCC, Environment Canterbury (Regional Council), Metro, Ashburton District Council etc., I am interested in all forms of public and alternative transport. Support rail, light rail, and conventional bus, bus rapid transit (or busways), long distance coach networks, rental and carshare systems, bikes, cycle lanes, bike trails, bike buses and hire systems - they're all useful spanners in the toolbox. Believe true high powered public transport planning as an exact and dedicated science has yet to begin, and what is "good enough" by 20th century standards will seem minimal, foolish and amateurish in the years ahead! With cars, trucks etc. generating an estimated 23% of the heavy fossil fuel carbon in the atmosphere unquestionably causing climate change, and escalating worldwide devastation, more or less as predicted, changing the way we enjoy transport is not a parlour game or a fashionable fad. Let's get moving!

Introduction

I have contributed many formal submissions and informal suggestions to city and transit authorities, from Taupo to Texas and, mostly, in hometown Christchurch NZ. Think global - act local....as Normandy in 1944 was won hedgerow by hedgerow so must a sustainable world be built bus stop by bus stop!! .

Interests

Interested in public transport since February 2nd 1970, [Time Magazine article] when global warming was identified as a potential threat and I first realised cars and coal could kill our lovely planet! Christchurch city bus driver 1977-1990, subsequently a sight seeing bus driver. Worked for Christchurch City Libraries 1993-2017. Now retired. Author of three books on Christchurch's transport history - "The Lucifer; The Story of the 1932 Christchurch Tramway Strike" Dunford Press/Trade Union History Project 188pp 1988 "CTB - A brief Social history of the Christchurch Transport Board 1903-1989 CTB Reunion Committee 56pp 2003), "Port to Plains, Over and Under the Port Hills, the Story of the Lyttelton Railway Tunnel" Craigs. 204pp 2017 Advocate of various ideas (mainly public transport orientated) since 1981 to CTB, CCC, Environment Canterbury (Regional Council), Metro, Ashburton District Council etc., I am interested in all forms of public and alternative transport. Support rail, light rail, and conventional bus, bus rapid transit (or busways), long distance coach networks, rental and carshare systems, bikes, cycle lanes, bike trails, bike buses and hire systems - they're all useful spanners in the toolbox. Believe true high powered public transport planning as an exact and dedicated science has yet to begin, and what is "good enough" by 20th century standards will seem minimal, foolish and amateurish in the years ahead! With cars, trucks etc. generating an estimated 23% of the heavy fossil fuel carbon in the atmosphere unquestionably causing climate change, and escalating worldwide devastation, more or less as predicted, changing the way we enjoy transport is not a parlour game or a fashionable fad. Let's get moving!