Car-free Queen St trial

November 28, 2018

Auckland councillors voted unanimously to trial car free roads in central Auckland, including Queen St.

This idea would radically transform the city centre.

Principal urban designer George Weeks said the “open streets” plan would make Queen St inaccessible to all vehicles except for buses, delivery vehicles and essential service vehicles like rubbish trucks.

Over the next decade public transport capacity will increase with rail, light rail, buses and ferries bringing hundreds of thousands of people into the city.

Federal St and High St are also being put forward as pedestrian-only roads, and Quay St near the waterfront as a pedestrian-friendly road.

Mayor Phil Goff said with the swelling number of people in the central city every day, there needed to be change soon.

The urban design team will come back to the Planning Committee next year with some concrete proposals.

Watch what happens when a Giant Trevally versus an Tern in this amazing fish eats bird clip from Blue Planet II. Usually Giant trevally are solitary hunters but they have come in numbers to try their luck at catching potential prey. Fledgling Tern are wary to spend too much time on the water but even flying close to the surface puts them in grave danger.

Disney’s The Lion King opens in theatres July 19, 2019.

From Disney Live Action, director Jon Favreau’s all-new “The Lion King” journeys to the African savanna where a future king must overcome betrayal and tragedy to assume his rightful place on Pride Rock.

From DreamWorks Animation comes a surprising tale about growing up, finding the courage to face the unknown…and how nothing can ever train you to let go. What began as an unlikely friendship between an adolescent Viking and a fearsome Night Fury dragon has become an epic adventure spanning their lives. Welcome to the most astonishing chapter of one of the most beloved animated franchises in film history: How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World.

Now chief and ruler of Berk alongside Astrid, Hiccup has created a gloriously chaotic dragon utopia. When the sudden appearance of female Light Fury coincides with the darkest threat their village has ever faced, Hiccup and Toothless must leave the only home they’ve known and journey to a hidden world thought only to exist in myth. As their true destinies are revealed, dragon and rider will fight together—to the very ends of the Earth—to protect everything they’ve grown to treasure. In Cinemas January 3 2019

The North and South Islands are moving closer together after the effects of the Kaikōura earthquake in 2016.

The magnitude 7.8 earthquake caused dramatic changes to the sea bed and land, and also brought the North and South Islands five meters closer together.

However, scientists have discovered that the islands have continued to creep closer together over time!

The most north-eastern tip of the South Island, Cape Campbell, has now moved 35cm closer to Wellington.

As for Kaikōura, it has moved 15cm east and Wellington has moved five centimetres northeast.

Up to 145 pilot whales have stranded and died on a remote beach on Stewart Island over the weekend.

The Department of Conservation was notified on Saturday night. The whales had stranded themselves in two groups about 2km apart.

Over half of the whales had already died by the time they were found by DOC workers.

This stranding was one of many that occurred over the weekend.

On Sunday, 10 pygmy killer whales also stranded at Ninety Mile Beach. Two have since died and re-float attempts will continue over the week.

A sperm tohorā also beached in Doubtful Bay on Karikari Peninsula in Northland.

Stick Insects.

A stick with legs!

Some stick insect can camouflage in to different colour some are the same.
 They hid so they can hid from predators.

They can not hurt you but they can hid from you because some people like to hurt any type of
creatures.