Migrating with the birds
The last few months have been busy but that is no excuse for not keeping my news items current. Recent projects have been a wonderfully eclectic mix of writing promotional material,a successful $100,000 R&D grant for $100,000, speech writing and standardising client request emails.
In addition, we fled winter to enjoy a month of late summer back in New York. A highlight was putting on my Living Streets hat and meeting with a couple of wonderfully passionate people from the NY Department of Transportation about pedestrian and cycle friendly initiatives in the big apple. www.nyc.gov/dot I particularly liked their comment that the ability to get changes made are 95% political will and courage. Fantastic that New York City have a mayor (Michael Bloomberg) and a Transport Commissioner (Janette Sadik-Khan) who have both the necessary will and the courage. The walkers and cyclists, and the city planners are loving it! The image below is of Times Square showing some of the newly created pedestrian precincts.
We have now headed back south into spring but last night brought snow flurries, hopefully the last for the year. Made for less than ideal road conditions driving back from Dunedin after attending a speech about the restoration of an historic building after a devastating fire. I helped put the speech together and it was great to be there for the presentation.
Working to keep on track with updates from here on in!