Before we can answer the question: “What sort of transport system do we want in Wellington city/region?”, we must first ask: “What sort of city/region do we want to live in?”. My answer would be a city/region that is liveable; fair, safe and healthy; a place of opportunity; green; low carbon; well-connected; beautiful; vibrant and culturally rich. Changing the way we travel will bring this closer. \
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Wellington has an urban transport structure formed in the 1960s, when the ‘car was king’. Today, we see cities differently. [Jan Gehl’s Danish architectural firm recently presented a repor](https://www.stuff.co.nz/dominion-post/news/wellington/128018250/new-report-for-lets-get-wellington-moving-urges-capital-to-ditch-traffic-plant-trees)t for Let’s Get Wellington Moving (LGWM)*.* His work Cities for People envisaged cities less dominated by cars: “A city’s public domain – its streets, squares and parks – is the stage for people to meet.”
