Making Better Moves in Aotearoa
This guest post by Kasey McDonnell first appeared on his site WellyClimateNerd, and is shared here with kind permission. I want to teleport you to Aotearoa New Zealand in 2075.
Desolate pavement has been replaced with people everywhere. Children and people in wheelchairs are rolling along bike lanes.…
Comment Who decided Auckland’s volcanic viewshafts?
A couple of months ago, I went to the Auckland Library Heritage Collections in the City Centre, to read the original reports that led to the creation of Auckland’s volcanic viewshafts. For those unfamiliar with the phrase, these are slices of our urban environment where development is prohibited beyond a certain height (or at all), in order to protect certain views of the city’s dozens of iconic maunga.…
Sorting event transport at Kingsland
It feels like the media have been waiting for a ‘City Rail Link failure’ story – and this weekend they finally got one, kind of, as the weekend saw another big event and another challenge with post-match event trains. Auckland Transport and Eden Park are blaming each other for the issues, as 1News reports: Frustrated rugby fans booed passing trains at Eden Park last night as delays to city-bound services left thousands queuing after the All Blacks thrashed the Wallabies.…
Weekly Roundup 9-October-2026
Kia ora and welcome to our regular roundup of stories that caught our eye this week.
This Week in Greater Auckland On Monday, we took some time to analyse the election campaign transport announcements…
…and on Tuesday, we editorialised about what the recent campaign announcements mean for Auckland
On Wednesday, we ran a guest post book review by George Weeks, about rethinking parking…
…and on Thursday, we ran a throwback post from 2018, about rethinking Mill Road.…
Throwback Thursday: Rethinking the Mill Road Corridor
With Mill Road back in the news, as a campaign headline from the National Party (see our Tuesday coverage), it’s the perfect time for a look back at our previous coverage of this overscaled project.
The post below, by Harriet Gale, first ran in February 2018, and attracted vigorous discussion, with over a hundred comments.…
Book Review: Rethinking Parking
Today’s guest post is a book review by George Weeks, of Rethinking Parking: Planning and Urban Design Perspectives by Dr David Mepham.
George Weeks is a transport adviser, planner and urban designer based in Auckland. An earlier version of this review originally appeared in Roundabout Magazine, the newsletter of the Transportation Group NZ.…
Transport policy on the campaign trail
Election campaigning is now in full swing. We’ve previously reported on the (unwise) promises about fuel taxes from the two major parties re fuel taxes, and will continue to cover transport policies as they appear – and specifically, what they mean for Auckland.…
Weekly Roundup 2-October-2026
Kia ora and welcome to October, or Whiringa-ā-nuku! With daylight saving settling in and spring on the way, it’s time for another roundup of stories that caught our eye this week.
This Week in Greater Auckland On Monday, we had a guest post from our pal Darren Davis: a letter to Santa about public transport.…
The shortlisted options for congestion charging
The road to congestion pricing (aka “time-of-use charging”) is certainly not a fast one. So far, we’re at nearly a decade of official investigations into the idea. (It’s also over a decade and a half since the question was first raised on our predecessor, Transportblog – and we’ve covered the topic regularly since then, again and again)
Granted, a decade still seems like quite a short amount of time compared to some transport projects.…
Transport borrowing will come back to bite
Today, Treasury is releasing the Pre-election Economic and Fiscal Update (or PREFU) ahead of the election. So I figured it was worth looking at a significant recent change to the way transport expenditure works – a change that has gone relatively under-reported.…
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