What I love about Auckland (Transport Blog)

We’ve been pre-occupied of late with some rather serious topics: Funding for the CRL, state highway traffic volumes, urban limits, and inefficient tendering processes, to name but a few. These topics have aroused huge interest – Auckland Transport Blog is now one of the top 5-6 blogs in New Zealand and getting close to cracking 100,000 views per month.…
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We Need Your Help

I really love being involved in putting this blog together and am pleased that more and more people are not only visiting but also enjoying it. One of the main reasons I do it is that I love Auckland and want to see it become an even better place than it it already is, I also know that my fellow bloggers feel the same way.…
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Strong support for motorway tolls?

An article in today’s Herald notes the results of a survey undertaken by the NZ Council for Infrastructure Development, which looks at different levels of support for different ‘alternative’ funding mechanisms for paying for Auckland’s transport system. Pollsters have found almost two-thirds support from Aucklanders for motorway tolls to ease congestion and raise extra transport money.…
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Brownlee really does hate the CRL

Another testy exchange in parliament yesterday between Phil Twyford and transport minister Gerry Brownlee over transport matters in Auckland: Firstly, it seems pretty obvious that the government is unlikely to support any scheme to raise additional funding through congestion charging mechanisms, regional fuel taxes and so forth.…
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Tamaki Redevelopment

On issues normally of interest to this blog, transport and urban development, it seems that the government and the council are miles apart so it is pleasing to see them working together on at least the second of those issues. In an announcement today, they are forming a redevelopment company to focus the Tamaki area which includes Glen Innes, Point England and Panmure.…
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CRL Subsurface Landowner Presentation

Auckland transport has posted online a couple of the presentations they have given to affected land owners, one for owners of sites where the surface property will be needed and one for owners where subsurface rights are needed. It is the second of these that is the most interesting as it contains all of the info of the first presentation and more.…
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What’s Auckland’s future?

Sometimes it’s helpful to take a step back and try to see the big picture – the “forest for the trees” as the saying goes. While this blog focuses on transport, really it’s interested in Auckland’s future – what will this place be like in 10 years, 30 years, 50 years or even 100 years?…
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The urban limits debate rages on

The comments thread on my post about housing affordability, put up nearly a week ago, has raged on over the past few days to reach well over 130 comments – many of them extremely interesting. Inevitably, one of the big areas of debate has been around urban limits and they role they potentially play in driving up house prices.…
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Density done well

There’s a large amount of discussion around density at the moment – how much Auckland should grow through intensification, how much through expansion, whether either of those will help housing affordability, whether people want big houses on big sections or whether they want something else and perhaps most of all, whether Auckland will accept a higher-density future.…
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