O’Connell St Shared Space starts
Some great news that the work to upgrade O’Connell St to a shared space is now under-way. Construction is expected to be completed in August later this year. Due to the road being too narrow for two lanes, it has been closed to all traffic and temporary measures are being put in place so the shops along the street can have deliveries/rubbish collection etc.…
14 Comments Auckland Civic Hackathon launched
You may remember that late last year we held a competition in conjunction with Auckland Transport to suggest and vote on some quick and easy ideas. The idea that achieved the most votes (28) was about opening up real time data to developers.…
Freight transport in NZ
Moving freight around the country is obviously quite important to our economy and making that task easier has been a key reason behind the governments Roads of National Significance programme. Yesterday the Ministry of Transport released an update to its National Freight Demand Study.…
Lots of cycling news
There’s been quite a bit of cycling news in the last few days (including during today) so this post is really a bit of a combination of a few of these.
The Role of Cycling in Auckland
You will recall on Tuesday my post on The Role of Cycling in Auckland.…
Changing housing trends starting to be noticed
On Monday there were a series of interesting articles in the Herald on housing that have a lot in common with many of the things we say.
A general statement about the current urban trends
Although apartment living has been available to Aucklanders for many decades it is only relatively recently that it has become desirable.…
Greens want kids walking and cycling to school
I happened to be part way through writing a post about transport policy for the upcoming elections when the first policy announcement of this cycle appeared in my inbox. I aim to cover election policy from all major parties over the course of the year.…
Photo of the day: Eyelight Lane
Back in 2011 when the first stage of the Fort St shared space was being built the artist impressions showed a neat artwork installation on Fort Lane. Now a few years later it’s finally been installed. It’s called Eyelight Lane by Swedish artist David Svensson.…
PT use rising internationally
We know that there are some major ongoing trends in transport use not only in New Zealand but also in many of the countries we like to compare ourselves to, especially those closest to NZ in culture and history i.e. Australia, Canada and the US. …
Albany Highway upgrade to start later this year
Auckland Transport have announced that they will spend $58 million to widen a 4km section of Albany Highway starting in September. The road is an interesting one in that some parts look like a typical suburban street while other parts don’t appear to have really changed since the road was a state highway.…
Last Call- TransportBlog Movie Night: Her
This is the final reminder about our upcoming fundraiser event tomorrow night at Capitol Cinema. Thanks to Campaign for Better Transport, Patrick Reynolds Photography and Odyssey Wines for joining our list of sponsors.
You can order tickets here. Some tickets (cash) will be available at the door.…
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