The Great North Road corridor
In this recent post I questioned whether the Draft Auckland Spatial Plan had been realistic about where it expects urban intensification to occur over the next 20-30 years. There is much focus in the plan on intensification occurring in far flung parts of the city like Kelston, Glendene, Manurewa, Orewa and Glenfield, yet not necessarily much analysis of whether it actually makes financial sense for intensification to occur in those areas.…
38 Comments Transport and the “Southern Initiative”
The Auckland Spatial Plan contains a vast number of goals, objectives, broad thinking and so forth – but perhaps more importantly two key focuses: the city centre (to be implemented through the City Centre Master Plan) and the Southern Initiative. The Southern Initiative is described in the Strategic Direction section of the Auckland Plan:
Southern Auckland is a centre of economic activity with huge potential to contribute still further to NZ’s economy.…
Progress for Hamilton-Auckland rail?
A fairly extensive agenda item (page 17 onwards, and then here and here) to tomorrow’s meeting of the Auckland Council Transport Committee looks once again at the concept of Hamilton to Auckland rail. Over the past few months a working group has been thoroughly investigating the proposal, especially after last year’s local body elections when it became quite a big issue in the Waikato.…
Improving Auckland’s PT: what we need to do
At last month’s meeting of the Auckland Council Transport Committee there was a very interesting “benchmark study” that compared a wide variety of measures of public transport in Auckland with a number of cities around the world. Inevitably, Auckland performed worst in most of the measures – even when compared against other cities like Perth, Brisbane and Calgary that have much lower population densities, traditionally seen as a fundamental reason for Auckland’s poor performance.…
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