Jake Coppinger

Only better services can make public transport useable for more people.

FYI I think this sentence is outdated? The CoS has implemented a number of on-street share bike parking spaces:
“..take parking spaces from cars for the corralled storage of shared bikes off the footpaths…Sadly, after some 8 years of shared bikes in the City of Sydney, this has yet to happen.”

Submissions for the Henderson Road Cycleway close today 5pm!

5 min advocacy - please drop an email tosydneyyoursay@cityofsydney.nsw.gov.au and say you support the Henderson Road Cycleway!

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Stations and transfers A gallery of drawings depicting the topology of metro stations from different European cities.

Transit station diagrams: stations.albertguillaumes.cat

Redwatch: TfNSW Eveleigh Pedestrian Bridge Studies - GIPA release Feb 2026

www.redwatch.org.au/RWA/statesig...

#sydney #auspol #transport #tfnsw #redfern #southeveleigh #nsw

Thanks so much for the kind words!

Have you heard of the Southern Arterial Route? - Jake Coppinger Have you heard of the Southern Arterial Route in Sydney? I hadn't either - but you won't be able to unsee the scar through Ultimo, Chippendale, Redfern and Waterloo. Here's a ~12,000-word Wikipedia ar...

Have you heard of the Southern Arterial Route? I hadn’t either. Here’s a ~12,000-word Wikipedia article with 153 references to bring you and your search engine up to speed!

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#sydney #ultimo #chippendale #redfern #waterloo #nsw #auspol #urbanism #wikipedia

Have you heard of the Southern Arterial Route? - Jake Coppinger Have you heard of the Southern Arterial Route in Sydney? I hadn't either - but you won't be able to unsee the scar through Ultimo, Chippendale, Redfern and Waterloo. Here's a ~12,000-word Wikipedia ar...

Sharing this magnus opus by @jakecoppinger.bsky.social:

Sydneysiders, have you ever noticed the wide stroads and one-way heavy traffic when you drive between Redfern and Green Square? This project has a name, and the streetscape doesn't have to be this way jakecoppinger.com/2026/02/have...

Why are so many still sticking with Twitter? | Fiona Katauskas It’s not a healthy relationship

Tweethearts - my cartoon for @australia.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

‘Get the f**k off there’: MPs, Senators call on government to abandon X/Twitter following wave of ‘Grok porn’ A proliferation of sexual deepfakes on X (formerly Twitter) has prompted other countries to investigate Grok, the platform’s AI software, but, so far, Ottawa remains silent.

A proliferation of sexual deepfakes on X has prompted other countries to investigate Grok, the platform’s AI software, but, so far, Ottawa remains silent.

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Australia's eSafety Commissioner is assessing several image-based abuse complaints involving Elon Musk's AI chatbot Grok, after weeks a "mass undressing spree" where it generated 10,000s images including women & children depicted in revealing outfits or suggestive positions.

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And an absolutely data filled, painstakingly researched piece by @jakecoppinger.bsky.social on the same topic.

Even the left wing media is failing us in these conversations, and doing a disservice to the victims by not even questioning car culture narrative.

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List of pedestrian, cyclist and personal mobility device road deaths in NSW in 2025 - Jake Coppinger This page is a list of pedestrian, cyclist and personal mobility device road deaths across New South Wales (Australia) in 2025, sourced from NSW Police press releases and daily government statistics. ...

Yes - see the section I added on this fatality: jakecoppinger.com/2025/11/list...

List of pedestrian, cyclist and personal mobility device road deaths in NSW in 2025 - Jake Coppinger This page is a list of pedestrian, cyclist and personal mobility device road deaths across New South Wales (Australia) in 2025, sourced from NSW Police press releases and daily government statistics. ...

There have been misleading articles on pedestrian and cyclist road deaths recently. Some have “...suggested that e-scooters and e-bikes played a significant part in the rise in pedestrian deaths”, when “...fatalities were in fact the riders of e-scooters” (ABC)

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Good news! Not only is Sydney’s new Oxford Street cycleway doing numbers (3,000+ trips p/d) the other *five lanes* of traffic everyone was *so worried* about appear to be *just fine*(!)

Green Lights More Often: The Secret 2018 Study of Sydney’s Traffic Signals - Jake Coppinger On the 7th of January 2018, Transport for NSW (TfNSW) pulled off something extraordinary - and I personally paid $441 to obtain the previously secret reports documenting it. With such impressive resul...

What happened in Sydney’s CBD when signals were reprogrammed to turn green 20 seconds quicker?

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Creating aerial imagery with a bike helmet camera (GoPro) and OpenDroneMap - Jake Coppinger This technical guide details how you can create your own orthorectified (aka satellite view/bird mode) imagery, point clouds and 3D models of streets with nothing but a 360 degree camera mounted on bi...

I also wrote a post on this very topic!

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Better Streets submission to the Epping Bridge Project - Jake Coppinger The Epping Bridge Project is first and foremost a road widening project (5 car lanes to 7 car lanes). It does not follow Transport for NSW's own Road User and Space Allocation Policy or Movement & Pla...

I have published TfNSW GIPA 26T-0120 documents on the Epping Bridge transport modelling “review”. Please let me know if you have any insights / comments on these!

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Arc, the first browser by The Browser Company of New York, dies at three An obituary for the Arc browser from a current user

I’d been using the Arc browser daily since it was invite-only, so The Browser Company confirming it’s effectively dead still stings.

I really admired Arc for how much thought and craft went into it. So I wrote an obituary for my favourite browser:

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#ArcBrowser

Not enough funding for Sydney Park Junction – Addendum REF to cut scope - Jake Coppinger On the 20th of November 2024, Jenny Leong (the Green's MP for Newtown) asked the State Minister for Transport 21 detailed questions in NSW Parliament regarding the status and fate of the infamous TfNS...

I've written this analysis piece based on TfNSW GIPA 25T-1420, which you may have seen this morning in the Sydney Morning Herald.

I hope you find it helpful to understand the project.

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#auspol #sydney #australia #urbanism

No Signal for Pedestrian Safety: TfNSW Refuses Signal Data During National Road Safety Week - Jake Coppinger This week is National Road Safety Week. Traffic injury is the biggest killer of Australian children under 15 and the second-biggest killer of all Australians aged between 15 and 24. 50 people walking ...

This week is National Road Safety Week. 50 people walking are killed on NSW roads and streets every year and this figure is trending up. Many of these people are killed taking risks to cross streets because signal wait times are too long.

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#auspol #sydney #urbanism

It's fascinating - I don't see any current ap-southeast-2 outage, or any issues elsewhere: health.aws.amazon.com/health/status

Compared to 2022, there has been a nationwide swing to #DemocracySausage, with an increase of 5.2 percentage points in the estimated percentage of election day voters with access to #DemocracySausage. The largest swing was in NSW with a 10.5 percentage point increase.

Goolay’yari WalkSydney hosted a Sunday afternoon walk along the Cooks river between the Beamish Street pedestrian bridge and the Sugar Mill pedestrian bridge in Hulstone Park.  The area around Campsie, Sydney, NSW, was traditionally Wangal land, a clan of the Darug (or Dharug, Dharuk, Daruk) tribe or language group, who used the Cooks River for sustenance and had a deep connection to the land and its resources. 

Goolay’yari

WalkSydney hosted a Sunday afternoon walk along the Cooks river between the Beamish Street pedestrian bridge and the Sugar Mill pedestrian bridge in Hulstone Park.  The area around Campsie, Sydney, NSW, was traditionally Wangal land, a clan of the Darug (or Dharug, Dharuk, Daruk) tribe…

So why, yet again, block the footpath for road works signage??

"It's the most wonderful time of the year.." Police holding people walking on zebra crossing at Broadway to allow vehicles through..

A good solution for the Central station exit into the cycleway.

The change to our traffic lights that could make you happier For years, pedestrians have had to wait for cars to cross a street. But what if it was the other way round – and would it improve our experience of cities?

My project Better Intersections is in The Sydney Morning Herald today!

"The push for improved walking spaces came to a head in 2023 when Sydney software engineer Jake Coppinger began crowdsourcing a survey of the worst pedestrian wait times at local intersections."

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Massive win for the Merri-bek community!

Tonight Merri-bek council voted to approve a new Nightingale development offering high quality, sustainable, non-for-profit housing 1/