Weekly Roundup 26-July-2024
Kia ora. These are some stories that caught our eye this week – as always, feel free to share yours in the comments.
Our header image this week (via Eke Panuku) shows the planned glow-up for the Karanga Plaza Tidal Swimming Steps.…
16 Comments Throwback Thursday – Thinking about Expressways
Some of the recent announcements from the government have reminded us of posts we’ve written in the past. Here’s one from early 2020. There were plenty of reactions to the government’s infrastructure announcement a few weeks ago which saw them fund a bunch of big roading projects.…
Levelling up the Takaanini LXR project
As I reported about the city centre, Auckland’s rail network is also going through a difficult and disruptive period which is rapidly approaching a culmination, which will result in a significant upgrade to the whole network. Hallelujah.
Also like the city centre, this is an upgrade predicated on the City Rail Link.…
Waimahara: The Singing Spirit of Water
There’s been a change in Myers Park. Down the steps from St. Kevin’s Arcade, past the grassy slopes, the children’s playground, the benches and that goat statue, there has been a transformation. The underpass for Mayoral Drive has gone from a barren, grey, concrete tunnel, to a place that thrums with feeling.…
A speed limit is not a target, and yet…
This is a guest post from longtime supporter Mr Plod, whose previous contributions include a proposal that Hamilton become New Zealand’s capital city, and that we should switch which side of the road we drive on. A recent Newsroom article, “Back to school for the Govt’s new speed limit policy“, outlines how despite “a mountain of evidence that higher speeds lead to more traffic crashes, injuries and deaths,” our current coalition Government is planning changes “which would force councils to raise many urban 30kph speed limits to 50kph, as well as removing permanent low-speed zones around schools”.…
Weekly Roundup 19-July-2024
Kia ora, it’s time for another Friday roundup, in which we pull together some of the links and stories that caught our eye this week. Feel free to add more in the comments!
Our header image this week shows a foggy day in Auckland town, captured by Patrick Reynolds.…
Connecting the dots and filling the gaps in our bike network
This is a guest post by Shaun Baker on the importance of filling the gaps in our cycling networks. It originally appeared on his blog Multimodal Adventures, and is re-posted here with kind permission. In our towns and cities in Aotearoa New Zealand, there are areas in our cycling networks that have little to no cycling infrastructure installed between existing separated cycle routes.…
A blanket of misinformation
Two old sayings have been on my mind lately. The first is: “The pen is mightier than the sword”, describing the power of language and communication to help or to harm.
The other, which captures the speed with which falsehoods can become ingrained and hard to undo, is: “A lie can run halfway around the world while the truth is still putting on its shoes.”…
How the Northwest was lost and may be won
This is a guest post by Darren Davis. It originally appeared on his excellent blog, Adventures in Transitland, which we encourage you to check out. It is shared by kind permission. The Northwest has always been Auckland’s public transport Cinderella, rarely invited to the public funding ball.…
City Centre Rebuild: How Soon Is Now?
Patrick Reynolds is deputy chair of the City Centre Advisory Panel and a director of Greater Auckland
There is ongoing angst about construction disruption in the city centre. Fair enough: it’s very tough, CRL and other construction has been going on for a very long time.…
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