![]() ![]() We'll have a follow-up report coming in a few months to show how the changes have affected Wellingtonian's behaviour. The best outcomes are when we can film before and after infrastructure changes to see what impact these changes have had on people's behaviour.Īnyway, check out this benchmark report we put together for Wellington City Council. I was now officially hooked on how people use space.įast-forward to today and our cameras (which have come a loooong way forward from that first prototype) have been deployed many dozens of times to understand how people use the urban realm. The results gave our research report such a significant layer of depth. I hacked together a borrowed GoPro camera, battery pack and a click-clack container and cable-tied it all to a street post to gather video data and spent hours watching and coding the footage. #rail #engineering #newzealand #tourism #nzĪs part of a FOLKL project many moons ago we needed to understand how pedestrians were using public space in Napier, and how this changed when large cruise ships were in port, bringing an extra 8,000+ pairs of legs into the area. Unfortunately, Barry Brickell passed away in 2016, however his legacy lives on through the unique and picturesque Driving Creek Railway. ![]() Over the years, many custom-built rollingstock has been built for the line, from modified diesel freight locomotives, janky passenger cars, to now certified safe passenger DMUs. Nowadays tourist trains are the main form of traffic, with typically 2-3 trains in convoy making the around hour long return journey numerous times throughout the day. While initially used for only clay and logs, in the 1980s passengers began taking joyrides on the railway, and in 1990 it became an official tourism operator. The 3 km long railway was completed in the early 2000s, terminating at the ‘Eyefull Tower’ near the top of the hill. Due to the challenging nature of the steep hill, many complex engineering solutions were implemented, including switchbacks, spirals, 10 bridges, 3 tunnels, and even a double decker viaduct. Over the next two and a half decades the railway slowly expanded up the hill through the scenic native New Zealand bush, with it being mainly built by Barry and his friends. So, Barry began construction on a 15-inch (38.1 cm) gauge railway, now known as the famous Driving Creek Railway. However, he needed an effective and efficient way to transport terracotta clay harvested from the hill and pine logs also harvested from property to heat the kiln. In the mid-1970s a potter named Barry Brickell was trying to establish a pottery collective on his large steep hillside property on the northwestern coast of the Coromandel Peninsula. ![]()
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