Northcote Cycling Outcome
Last week Auckland Transport finally released the outcome of their consultation to the Northcote Walking and Cycling improvements that started in July last year. All up 5.2km of improvements were proposed starting from Taharoto Rd and going all the way through to the Northcote Ferry Terminal and would also be a very useful route once Skypath is complete. …
23 Comments Is Demographia right about the cost of planning? A proof by contradiction
Demographia state that planning regulations – or, more precisely, metropolitan urban limits – cause houses to be unaffordable. Without planning, they claim that the median house would cost no more than 3 times the median household income.
Is this claim actually true?…
Helping Our Heritage Come Alive – Mt Eden Looking South
This is an image from Mark Bishop. Here are the previous posts: Queen and Wellesley, Newton Rd, Kingsland, Mt Eden Rd, Dominion Rd, Karangahape Rd
These images were developed by merging together various historic black and white photographs (all from the “Sir George Grey Special Collection” – Auckland Library) with contemporary colour photographs taken at the same location.…
Thanks Campbell Live
Last week sadly saw the end of Campbell Live. Much has already been said elsewhere about the great work the Campbell Live team produced over the decade the show was on air across topics such as the Christchurch earthquake and child poverty and many others. …
North Shore New Network Consultation
The next round of consultation for the New Network starts today and this time it’s the turn of the North Shore. This follows the consultations for South Auckland, West Auckland, Hibiscus Coast and Pukekohe/Waiuku.
Like pretty much every other area of Auckland, the existing bus network on the North Shore is a confusing mess – akin to spaghetti that’s been thrown at a map.…
Auckland’s Old Tram Maps Modernised
As most of you here would know Auckland used to have a pretty kick-ass light rail network and you’ve probably seen the old tram maps before. Inspired by something similar he had seen done for San Francisco, Cornelius Blank has created a map of the network as it once was but in a contemporary, ‘metro’ style schematic.…
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