NW Busway Fast Track Application
The Northwest Busway is one of Auckland most important upcoming transport projects. In April last year it was announced that the NZTA board had approved an investment case for the project and that more work would happen on design with the aim of getting designations for busway, likely via the Fast Track process.…
10 Comments Auckland’s next harbour crossing: A costly failure that needs fixing
The following is an op-ed I wrote which ran in The Post on February 13th 2026. We need cross-party consensus for good long-term political decision-making, especially when it comes to major infrastructure. Right now, this isn’t happening. Worse: political parties may agree about the wrong things, seriously undermining our future at huge cost.…
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.…
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.…
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