How the CRL will be built along Albert St
At the beginning of the month the formal hearings began for the notice of requirement on the City Rail Link. Those hearings have finished and it will be a few months before we hear back the results of them however one of the biggest issues is the impact the construction works will have on Albert St.…
30 Comments Parklets coming to Auckland?
One of the interesting urban development’s happening in some places overseas – most notably in San Francisco – is the development of the Parklet. They are effect mini open space designed to enhance the local environment and are created in the space of one or more on-street carparks.…
Hamilton Slow Streets hits some bumps
Hamilton has been a bit of a trail blazer in New Zealand with pushing ahead on reducing speed limits in residential areas in a bit to improve safety.
Road safety experts recognise that a 50km/h speed limit is generally too high for residential neighbourhoods, town and city centres where there are many people using the road for different purposes.…
Auckland ranked 10th most liveable city once again
The Economist’s Intelligence Unit have once again released their global liveability rankings which ranks cities all around the world.
The concept of liveability is simple: it assesses which locations around the world provide the best or the worst living conditions. Assessing liveability has a broad range of uses, from benchmarking perceptions of development levels to assigning a hardship allowance as part of expatriate relocation packages.…
Bin the Parking Mins
Yesterday I looked at some of the changes being made to the residential zones in the Unitary Plan. For those interested, Anne Hartley’s amendments were discussed yesterday but haven’t been voted on yet. That should happen today after the councillors cover off some urban design issues.…
Showing the speed of cycling
We often hear about the massive health benefits that exist for cycling, after all it is much better for your health than driving a car or catching public transport (although PT itself better than driving as people normally need to walk at each end of the journey).…
Energy in New Zealand 2013: Electricity
Last Thursday, the MBIE released a report called Energy in New Zealand 2013, which replaces the old Energy Data File series. It’s chock full of energy-related goodies, which is very relevant to us here at the ATB; transport requires energy, after all.…
Unitary Plan into the final stages
Over the last few months we have tried to hold off discussing the unitary plan too much while the council worked through the feedback. Today the council will start the process of going through the changes to the plan so that it can finalised and ultimately notified so we will be having a look at some of the changes and how they might affect some of the outcomes of the overall plan.…
Waterview TBM under construction
The team building the Waterview Connection have release a video showing the first stages of the TBM being assembled like a giant jigsaw puzzle and which gives an indication to the sheer size of it. In addition here are some photos from the facebook page set up for the machine The photo above shows the lifting into place of the 260 tonne main drive which the biggest single piece and which required modifications to local roads to allow it to pass.…
Where to host a possible future America’s Cup?
As many people will know, yesterday Team New Zealand won the Louis Vuitton Cup meaning that in a few weeks they will get to challenge for the America’s Cup. If they win that they will bring the cup back to New Zealand and people – perhaps getting a little ahead of themselves – are already starting to think about where a future regatta could be hosted.…
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