Another development announced and launching our Development Tracker
As the saying goes “when it rains it pours” and that seems to be the case with developments at the moment as developers try to make up lost ground following on from the global financial crisis. We have seen heaps of apartment building proposals pop up in the last two months it has been hard keeping up and now another new one has appeared.…
59 Comments How to REALLY do cycling infrastructure
A great video from Streetfilms shows how the Netherlands has transformed itself to cater for and encourage cycling over the past few decades. What’s really interesting is how things haven’t always been this way – rather through investment in really good quality cycling infrastructure (not just green paint on roads): Also very very little lycra and almost no helmets.…
Photo of the day – Hurstmere Green
The recently upgraded Hurstmere Green in Takapuna Photos are copyright to Sydney.…
Herald says people want sprawl …. ummm
The Unitary Plan is definitely far from perfect but is a start in setting out how the city will develop in the future. I say a start as we will likely to need to be revisit the plan in a few years time to allow for more development as in the current version much of the city suffered the fate of elected representatives getting nervous and trying to appease the NIMBYs as the local body elections loomed (with the exception of the West Auckland local boards who thankfully went the opposite way).…
Photo of the day – Karangahape Rd
Photo is copyright to Sydney.…
A look inside ASB’s new headquarters
The other day in our photo of the day we highlighted the new ASB Headquarters in the Wynyard Quarter. Here’s another photo of it thanks to Craig. But the reason for this post is that you can now look around inside the building on Google Streetview.…
Photo of the Day – Vulcan Lane
Photo is copyright to Sydney.
On the topic of Vulcan Lane, the image below was going around on twitter a few days ago showing what it used to look like before it was pedestrianised in the 1960’s. The narrow footpaths are similar to what we still see today on High St and O’Connell St.…
Bayswater and Alexandra Park developments
As we keep pointing out, the development community is really coming back to life and lots of projects are now on the table again. This is most likely being brought on by a number of factors: Higher land prices are making developments more viable.…
HOP rollout to Link and Metrolink coming soonish
The changeover of NZ Bus buses to HOP has long been expected to be an issue – primarily due to the confusion of having two different cards both called HOP – and it hasn’t taken long for issues to start to emerge.…
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