Pop-Up Radwege (Cycleways)
This is a guest post written by Ella Kay. It doesn’t take too long to notice to notice the ‘Pop-up Radwege’ peppered around covid-era Berlin. The rationale is straightforward enough and based squarely on the pandemic narrative – provide enough space for people to travel to where they need to go while minimising the risk of infection.…
21 Comments Fully realising the benefits of CRL
Last Friday I was lucky enough to be invited to the City Rail Link site to watch Transport Minister Michael Wood and Mayor Phil Goff officially launch the Tunnel Boring Machine that will dig the CRL tunnels between Mt Eden and Aotea.…
Low-traffic neighbourhoods: which way for Arthur-Grey?
The current tranche of Innovating Streets tactical urbanism projects are in various stages of progress. It’s pretty cool when they turn up on Google Earth images, as with this project in Nelson South:
The key thing about this year-long Innovating Streets programme is that Waka Kotahi funds projects to the tune of 90%.…
Making a Fair Light Rail/Metro Comparison
Recently the government announced the next steps for light rail in Auckland, the creation of an Establishment Unit to come up with a recommendation of what to build before the end of the year. A few weeks ago former Chief Executive of Manukau City Council, Leigh Auton, was appointed as the chair for the Establishment Unit.…
Weekly Roundup – 07-May-20
Here’s our wrap up for the week. Queen St to Change
Good news yesterday afternoon, the group fighting to return Queen St to a car focused corridor failed in their bid to get an injunction on the improvement works.
Today’s High Court decision not to grant the injunction sought by Save the Queen Street Society means Auckland Council and Auckland Transport are able to proceed with planned improvements to the northern end of Queen Street between Customs and Shortland Streets.…
What’s the plan for bikes and scooters on Queen St?
All eyes are on Queen Street, what with the current legal argy-bargy. (Yesterday, the judge said he hopes to make a decision by the end of Thursday – today.)
The funny thing is, both parties are kind of on the same page: it’s all about getting beyond the temporary Covid-response treatment and towards something more enduring.…
The Auckland Harbour Bridge clip-ons, planning disaster… or best practice?
This post was first published by Nicolas Reid on his Linked In page.
As most older Aucklanders will know, the Auckland Harbour bridge was originally built in 1959 with four lanes then widened with a pair of ‘clip-ons’ just ten years later.…
AT’s latest PT and Bike Numbers
It’s been a while since we’ve seen how public transport and bike numbers have been tracking but yesterday Auckland Transport finally updated them. I’ve been waiting for these as we’re now over a year since the pandemic struck and lockdown resulted in dramatic changes to how we work and travel.…
The fight for Queen St
Auckland Transport are currently consulting on a makeover for Queen St with consultation closing this Friday. As I wrote two weeks ago, there are some good elements to the plans though we think AT should go further to prevent cars using the street.…
Weekly Roundup – 30-Apr-21
Here’s our weekly roundup RLTP submissions
Submissions for Auckland Transport’s Regional Land Transport Programme (RLTP) close on Sunday so if you haven’t completed one yet, get on to it. As Heidi wrote the other day, a key flaw in the plan is at best it hopes to hold vehicle travel steady which is at odds with both government and council plans, as well as the draft recommendations from the Climate Change Commission that we need to reduce vehicle travel.…
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