Weekly Roundup 20-February-2026
Hey look, it’s another Friday and it’s been a busy week! And another roundup of recent news, to cap off your week. This week in Greater Auckland On Monday Connor examined what AT is doing to ruin Queen Street and Wellesley Street.…
28 Comments Midtown Trial: Who wants to ruin Queen St?
Earlier this week, I detailed how Auckland Transport is messing up Midtown with a proposed trial on Queen Street and Wellesley Street.
AT’s trial will: Reopen the section of Queen St between Wakefield and Wellesley to general vehicles, from 7pm – 7am (Currently, this is a 24/7 AVO zone – Authorised Vehicles Only – used by buses, bikes, mopeds, motorbikes, emergency vehicles, and registered goods vehicles.)…
For whom the harbour bridge tolls…
Many people want a new harbour crossing, but do they want to pay $9 for it every time they cross the harbour?
Yesterday Te Waihanga, the New Zealand Infrastructure Commission released its National Infrastructure Plan (NIP). A lot of their case feels very familiar to many of the arguments we’ve made over many years, especially about transport investment.…
Midtown Trial: How AT are making a mess of Queen St & Wellesley St
Just before Christmas, Auckland Transport (AT) let slip a plan for a two-year “trial” of bringing back overnight traffic along Queen Street.
Specifically, they want to reopen the section of Queen St between Wakefield and Wellesley to general vehicles, from 7pm – 7am.…
Weekly Roundup 13-February-2026
Happy Friday 13th – may your luck go the right way today! Welcome to another roundup of stories that caught our eye this week. This week in Greater Auckland On Monday, we ran a follow-up guest post by Kasey McDonnell, on why trams should rebuild Wellington.…
The Western Line to Newmarket Question
What’s faster: a less frequent direct service or a more frequent service that requires a transfer?
In my post last week about needing a metro timetable to match our upgraded rail network, a few things came up that caught my attention: That the testing didn’t go well
There were a number of suggestions about west-to-Newmarket services – with some similar comments I’ve seen from time to time in other places.…
Book Review: Happy By Design
This is a guest post by Transport Advisor and Town Planner George Weeks, written in a personal capacity reviewing Happy By Design by Ben Channon Revised Edition.
You can check out past book review posts here. Where’s your favourite place in Auckland?…
Why trams should rebuild Wellington
This is a guest post from Wellington-based Kasey McDonnell, which originally appeared on their blog Welly climate nerd (formerly threesixtysix). It is republished here with kind permission. It’s a modest Monday morning in 2035. Derwent Street is glistening in the drizzle.…
Weekly Roundup 5-February-2026
Here’s our weekly roundup of all things urbanism, a day earlier than usual with Waitangi Day tomorrow and the long weekend ahead. This week in Greater Auckland On Monday Matt wrote about the end of the big summer shutdowns – and AT’s planned timetable for once the CRL opens.…
A metro rail timetable to match the infrastructure?
Every summer for the last 20 years some, if not all of Auckland’s rail network has been shut down for weeks on end as major upgrades take place – upgrades such as double tracking, electrification, new stations, major station upgrades, City Rail Link and most recently the work to rebuild much of the network from the foundations up.…
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