Sunday reading: 10 May 2015
Frank LD, Kershaw SE, Chapman JE, Perrotta K. (2014). Residential preferences and Public Health in Metro Vancouver: Promoting Health and Well Being by Meeting the Demand for Walkable Urban Environments. Health and Community Design Lab, University of British Columbia. Vancouver, BC.…
5 Comments TV3’s The Nation on Transport in Auckland
This morning TV3’s The Nation devoted most of its programme to the issue of Transport in Auckland. It featured a segment looking at transport including comment from Patrick and an interview with Minister of Transport Simon Bridges which was discussed with their panel.…
Event: Bike Rave next week
A few months ago Auckland’s first Bike Rave was held which was a pilot to see if the idea could catch on. It turned out to be a great success – see more about it here. With the pilot successful it’s now it’s time for another edition and it’s being held next week.…
Safer residential streets
A few weeks back Peter had an interesting post about retrofitting Albany. In his post he suggested that we know that certain neighbourhood street networks lead to better urban outcomes. They are more walkable and easier to serve by public transport, etc.…
Does Auckland have an effective transport programme?
Yesterday the Council made a fairly momentous decision to adopt the ‘Interim Transport Programme‘ that enables significant extra investment in public transport, cycling and safety over the next three years. While this decision means a good transport programme can be pursued in the short-term, it doesn’t yet solve the longer term transport funding issue that Auckland faces.…
Wave to the Traffic
Around six months ago Auckland Transport announced the roll out of what is probably one of their most cost effective projects – rolling out much needed bus lanes to much more of the city. All up for $12-15 million they would implement out around 40km of new bus lanes over three years.…
Sometimes people move
As written in the Herald a few weeks ago, sometimes people move. Sometimes they move to Auckland. Sometimes they move out of Auckland. Sometimes they even move country. But paragraphs like this can be a bit misleading:
As house prices in the country’s biggest city spiral out of control, Auckland homeowners are cashing in their chips and buying mansions in the regions.…
Skypath Consent Recommended
In a month the resource consent hearings for Skypath begin and while we don’t know what the outcome will be, the project had a big boost this week from the release of the council’s RMA report into the application. The project received massive feedback from the public – both directly and through the submission form from Generation Zero.…
Bike Rack Trial
Auckland Transport are running a trial to see what kind of bike parking people prefer which should hopefully lead to much more bike parking around the city, especially at bus/train stations and ferry terminals.
Auckland Transport in association with Cycle Action Auckland (CAA) is asking what sort of bike parking Aucklanders want.…
Council and Government fight over sprawl
The Auckland Council and the government have locked horns over the council rejecting three greenfield Special Housing Area (SHA) developments in the North West of Auckland. At the heart of the matter is who should pay for the infrastructure needed to support the development.…
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