Nelson St Cycleway gets closer
The NZTA have released a video of what the Nelson St offramp and the New Canada St Bridge will look like when finished soon. It is due to open in December – and as such it’s kind of odd that they’ve released a video when it’s so close to completion.…
29 Comments Briefing Papers 11: Challenges In Auckland’s Residential Construction Sector
AUT’s Briefing Papers initiative has kindly allowed us to syndicate their recent series on housing. The eleventh (and final) paper is written by Auckland Council chief economist Chris Parker: There are a number of challenges facing the building industry in Auckland, around scale, quality, efficiency and price.…
The Mercury Lane entrance decision
Auckland Transport have released a previously confidential board paper – that’s surprisingly short on detail – behind their decision to only build the Mercury Lane entrance to the Karangahape Rd Station instead of also building one at Beresford Square. In total the change is expected to save around $30-40 million.…
A visual history to jaywalking
A visual history to the term jaywalking. Thankfully it was never made illegal in New Zealand…
Improving cycling in Glen Innes
One of the projects to get funding from the government’s Urban Cycleway Funding announcement is to improve cycling links to the Glen Innes train station. Unlike other projects from the UCF the project isn’t a set route but seems to be intended to create a network of routes linking not only the train station but also the town centre, schools and employment areas.…
Is Auckland costing New Zealand too much?
Auckland is currently growing more rapidly than the rest of New Zealand – as it has been doing for most of the last century. At the same time, other New Zealand regions are struggling with aging populations and drifting economies.
Understandably, some people look at these trends and conclude that Auckland’s a bit of a problem.…
CBD bus changes from Sunday
Auckland Transport are reminding people that from this Sunday the changes to bus routes in the city centre takes place. That means changes to both bus stops and also the start of the new bus lanes that AT have been installing in recent weeks.…
Briefing Papers 10: The Housing We’d Choose
AUT’s Briefing Papers initiative has kindly allowed us to syndicate their recent series on housing. The tenth paper is written by Auckland Council social researcher Alison Reid: Auckland is at a turning point in how it must think about and deliver housing solutions.…
The Ministry of Transport and Driverless Cars
Automated, autonomous, driverless or self-driving – whatever you want to call them cars that can drive without the interaction of a human are increasingly talked about as the next big thing in transport and the Ministry has recently highlighted what’s happening in New Zealand around them.…
Development update: October 2015
The RCG Development Tracker page has just been updated for October, and there’s plenty of new stuff in there. There are a few areas which are getting major makeovers in the next couple of years – Sale St is one, and Beach Rd/ Anzac Ave is similar with three sizeable apartment projects just about to launch (technically they’re only doing ‘expressions of interest’ at the moment, not actually selling the apartments off the plans).…
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