Photo of the day – Renall St
Some of the houses in Renall St in Ponsonby. These would be impossible to build in the suburbs today, even with the Unitary Plan. Among probably many other reasons, the houses are on sections less than 200m², there is no setback from the boundary and there is no off street carparking.…
26 Comments TomTom’s Congestion Index Report
TomTom have released their annual congestion rankings and reported that Auckland is the 17th most congested city in the world.
The City of Sails is fast becoming the City of Snails, and is rising on a list of the world’s most congested cities compiled by navigation firm TomTom.…
Strong employment growth in the central city
Last week Statistics NZ released their business demography statistics for 2013 which provides a range of information about businesses in New Zealand. One of the really interesting bits of information included within the release are employee counts by geographic area, which can tell us the number of jobs in each area unit.…
Photo of the day – Elliott St
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Bike the bridge this Sunday
I remember this from the past but didn’t realise it was on again so if you want to ride over the harbour bridge then here’s your chance. Of course at some point in the future Skypath will allow people to cross the harbour by bike every day of the year.…
Newmarket Campus site progressing quickly
Anyone who has been on a western line train between Newmarket and Grafton recently will undoubtedly have seen all of the work going on to clear the old Lion Brewery site that will eventually become the Newmarket campus for the Auckland University.…
Don’t believe the traffic projections
We have frequently raised concerns about projected future traffic growth, given that in recent years there has been an extended flat-lining of traffic growth. What’s perhaps most concerning about these projections is how they ignore what has actually happened in the recent past and how those producing the projections don’t seem to learn from past mistakes.…
Photo of the day – Wynyard
Wynyard is probably the first really urban space we have created that encourages kids. Photos is copyright to Sydney…
Is the Unitary Plan encouraging drink driving?
While in most areas it seems like the notified version of the Unitary Plan was a disappointingly watered down version of the March draft plan, in the area of parking it actually seems like the notified plan might generally be an improvement.…
The link between transport and happiness
A really interesting article the other day on The Guardian explains the link between how we get design our city around transport and our happiness. It starts out talking about Enrique Peñalosa, the former mayor of Bogotá who in a few short years massive changed the nature of the city including putting a really strong focus on cycling and public transport.…
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