Weekly Roundup 7-February-2025
It’s been an eventful week as always, so here’s a few things that we have found interesting. We also hope everyone had a happy and relaxing Waitangi Day! This week in Greater Auckland
We’re still running on summer time, but provided two chewy posts: On Tuesday, a guest post by Nicolas Reid discussed the use of gondolas for mass transit.…
Trains are back but slower
This week, KiwiRail and Auckland Transport were celebrating two things: the completion of the summer rail works that had the network shut down for over a month and the start of electric trains to Pukekohe.
First up, here’s a few parts of the press release about the shutdown works.…
Gondolas for mass transit?
This post by Nicolas Reid was originally published on Linked in. It is republished here with permission.
Gondolas are often in the news, with manufacturers of ropeway systems proposing them as a modern option for mass transit systems in New Zealand.…
Weekly Roundup 31-January-2025
It may have been a short week but there’s been no shortage of things that caught our attention. Here is some of the most interesting. This week in Greater Auckland On Tuesday Matt took a look at public transport ridership in 2024
On Thursday Connor asked some questions for the government on speed limit increases This post, like all our work, is brought to you by a largely volunteer crew and made possible by generous donations from our readers and fans.…
Some questions for the government on speed limit increases
Yesterday, the newly minted Minister of Transport Chris Bishop and the Prime Minister of New Zealand Christopher Luxon held a press conference to announce a tranche of 38 state highways where speed limits will be automatically increased, and a further 49 up for public consultation on whether speeds should rise.…
Public Transport Ridership in 2024 – Part 1
How did public transport ridership perform in 2024, where has the post-COVID recovery been the strongest and weakest, and how does Auckland compare to other cities? Those and more are questions that I’ll answer over a few posts.
In this first post, I’m taking a look at the high-level numbers.…
Weekly Roundup 24-January-2025
It’s Friday and we’ve got Auckland Anniversary weekend ahead of us so we’ve pulled together a bumper crop of things that caught our attention this week.
This post, like all our work, is brought to you by a largely volunteer crew and made possible by generous donations from our readers and fans.…
Growing Auckland
An interesting article in Stuff a few weeks ago asked a couple of interesting questions in it’s headline, “How big can Auckland get? And how big is too big?“. Unfortunately, the article doesn’t really answer those questions, instead focusing on current growth projections, but there were a few aspects to the article I wanted to highlight.…
Can we have a normal Minister of Transport now?
Yesterday, Prime Minister Christopher Luxon announced a cabinet reshuffle, which saw Simeon Brown picking up the Health portfolio as it’s been taken off Dr Shane Reti, and Transport has been given to Chris Bishop. Additionally, Simeon’s energy and local government portfolios now sit with Simon Watts.…
Weekly Roundup 17-January-2025
It’s Friday and time for another roundup of things that caught our attention this week.
This post, like all our work, is brought to you by a largely volunteer crew and made possible by generous donations from our readers and fans.…
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