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.…
0 Comments 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.…
All I want for Christmas is…
This guest post by Darren Davis originally appeared on his great blog Adventures in Transitland, and shared here by kind permission. Now that it’s only three shopping months until Christmas, here is my top ten list of what I want Santa to give to public transport in Aotearoa/ New Zealand.…
Weekly Roundup 25-September-2026
Kia ora and welcome to another weekly roundup of stories about cities – including our own – and what makes them great. This week’s header image shows tram bowling, at the European TramDriver Championship 2026 in Warsaw (via Tram-EM). This Week in Greater Auckland On Monday, we had a guest post from All Aboard, about Better Moves for transport planning.…
Options for Inner West level crossing removals
The City Rail Link already proving a success, and we also know from many other projects, from rail to cycleways, that early bursts of growth aren’t a one-time thing, often taking many years for potential uptake to be fully realised.
There’s currently still a lot of capacity in the network, with trains nowhere near packed out; and Auckland Transport plans to increase services to 8 trains per hour per direction soon.…
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