The future cost of Auckland’s sprawl
Auckland needs to be able to accommodate up to 1 million more people over the next 30 years, that’s a lot of growth and means the city needs around 400,000 more dwellings. The Auckland Plan set the high level strategy of having up to 70% of that growth occur within the existing urban area while up to 40% would be outside that.…
80 Comments Auckland Conversations: Jeff Tumlin Live Stream
Tonight is the next in the series of Auckland Conversations and the speaker is Jeff Tumlin. He’s an expert in complete streets and is also the author of the book Sustainable Transportation Planning: Tools for Creating Vibrant, Healthy, and Resilient Communities.…
When is Bus Rapid Transit not Bus Rapid Transit?
This is a guest post from Andy C – a long time Wellington public transport user…
Well when it is Wellington of course…
Some of you may remember that back in 2013, the Wellington City Council undertook its ‘public transport spine’ study, which looked at options for the highly used public transport spine from the Wellington railway station to the Hospital in Newtown.…
John Key up the transport tax creek without a paddle
A wee while back Auckland Council adopted an interim “transport levy”. The levy amounts to $100 per household has been adopted as an interim measure for three years to accelerate a range of transport improvements that would otherwise be unfunded, e.g. …
Trouble with a Union St Carpark
It appears that Auckland Transport may have sold a key piece of land needed to implement part of the council’s City Centre Master Plan.
Yesterday it was announced by the NZTA that they are building a Central Incident Response Centre on the site of a former AT carpark on Union St.…
2015 Station Boarding Results
Auckland Transport announced yesterday that annual rail patronage has now passed 14 million trips after reaching 13.9 million by the end of June. While it’s great to see the growth that’s occurring overall, it’s also interesting to know where it’s coming from – and by that I mean which stations are people coming from and going to.…
Do we have enough trains – part 2
Late last week I asked the question of whether we have enough trains. The post has resulted in a lot of discussion however some of the answers I received from Auckland Transport left me asking more questions. In particular
CAF has committed to supplying 46 EMUs for weekday operations.…
Travel diary: New Urbanist town centres
The last few weeks I’ve been on holiday in California, visiting friends and family up and down the length of the state. As always, I’ve been surprised at how familiar – and how different – the state seems. In some ways, it’s ahead of New Zealand.…
Twiddling thumbs on climate change
Under the National government, being the Climate Change Issues Minister must be the easiest job in the world. Sure, Tim Groser does also have the more demanding role of Trade, but if I had to guess the number of hours each week he spends thinking “what can I do to help New Zealand reduce its emissions?”…
Ponsonby Rd Public Realm
Ponsonby Rd has pretty serious pretensions to being Auckland’s premier shopping and cafe strip, and it sure does attract very high volumes of people. However the amenity for these people is very poor. Both in terms of its form but also in terms of its upkeep.…
Processing...