Waterfront lost to parking building
A rather sad article in today’s NZ Herald about the loss of an important chunk of Auckland’s waterfront to a large carparking building:
Parking building adds to crowding on waterfront
Auckland’s precious waterfront, which just got a huge cement storage plant, is now getting a six-storey parking building.…
24 Comments The problem with electric cars
There has been a lot of talk about electric cars being the way of the future, a way that we can supposedly retain our automobility yet at the same time confront problems with declining oil supplies and the effect of transport on climate change.…
Safer Journeys – missing the point?
The government has released a document on improving road safety in New Zealand, called “Safer Journeys“. There is quite a wide variety of measures being looked at to improve road safety. These include raising the driving age from 15 to 16, ensuring that learner drivers get more experience before getting their restricted license, fixing up right-hand turning rules to improve safety, reducing blood-alcohol limits and other measures.…
Mike Lee on Auckland Transport
An interesting interview on Radio NZ yesterday of Mike Lee about the Super City reform process. In particular, he makes some interesting points about Auckland Transport. A full transcript of the interview is here, but here are some interesting parts of what he says:
KATHRYN RYAN: These are the Auckland assets currently held by the Auckland Regional Council which is the body that you currently chair.…
James Howard Kunstler: The tragedy of suburbia
An excellent video by renowned author James Howard Kunstler on why public spaces should be inspired centres of civic life and the physical manifestation of the common good. Instead, he argues, what there is in America is a nation of places not worth caring about.…
The National Infrastructure Plan
The government has today released their “National Infrastructure Plan“, which details the state of various infrastructure around the country as well as giving some guidance about where investment in infrastructure is likely to occur over the next 5-7 years. It’s not the “big bang” plan that looks 20 years into the future that I somewhat expected it to be, but in a way I think that might be a good thing.…
ARC hammers Auckland Transport
The Auckland Regional Council presented its submission on the 3rd Super City bill today, and (putting it mildly) it is absolutely damning. The full details of what was said can be found here, and I include matters relating to transport below:
Transport Overview – Mike Lee
The area of most concern to the ARC is transport.…
Opening of the New Lynn trench
Well I did manage to get myself out of bed at a rather ungodly hour this morning and make my way to the opening of the New Lynn rail trench. My car also managed to survive a whole day parked in Henderson, which is an added bonus!…
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