Panmure Interchange opens

Auckland Transport officially opened the new Panmure transport interchange today. Here’s the press release: Panmure’s new transport interchange will make life a lot easier for commuters with the walking time between buses and trains now taking less than a minute. The new bus and train station has been opened today by Mayor Len Brown and Associate Transport Minister, Michael Woodhouse.…
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Focusing on safety

One of the big reasons for making improvements to our streets is simply for safety. Safety for pedestrians, safety for cyclists and safety for drivers. We’ve been talking about safety a lot over the last month or so and despite the great news that 2013 has the lowest road toll in New Zealand for over 60 years, it’s still way too high.…
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What are other cities doing about Cycling

A comment in the herald the other day about cycling really caught my attention (and many others) and seems to highlight well Auckland Transports attempt to shift the current debate on cycling away from the need for significantly improved cycling infrastructure by using the old “that’s some other place, we’re different” excuse.…
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Lots on this weekend

The screening of The Human Scale along with the Pecha Kucha night has unfortunately been cancelled due to high winds with the organisers looking to reschedule the screening in March. However if you are in the area and want something to do another event in the area is still going ahead.…
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Great East-West news

Auckland Transport and the NZTA have just announced that they have dropped all East-West Link options that go through Mangere. This is fantastic news and I understand a formal press release is coming out soon and will update this once that happens.…
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