Should council investment follow where growth occurs?
A couple of days ago Deputy Mayor Penny Hulse raised a point that I’ve suggested from time to time for years, that the council’s investment should match the areas experiencing the most growth. It was part of an article in which she also decried the argument used by some in the recent Unitary Plan debate that suburbs close to the city should not have any change as they are “aspirational suburbs”, something she calls distasteful.…
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From the files of: You know March Madness is really mad when: Extra afternoon bus peak services: 881 – From 25 Symonds St to Constellation via Busway provided by Party Bus. 2/2 AK
— Auckland Transport (@AklTransport) March 8, 2016 And here it is in action courtesy of Christopher Dempsey from the Waitemata Local Board.…
Auckland Conversations: Skye Duncan video
On Tuesday evening was the latest Auckland Conversations event, with Skye Duncan, Global Street Design Director at NACTO. If you weren’t at the event here’s the video.
Over 1.2 million people die on global roads each year from traffic injuries. With three-quarters of the global population expected to be living in cities by 2050, cities must rethink, reimagine and redesign the most valuable real-estate space of streets to function more efficiently for the needs of more people.…
PT results across NZ
We keep a close eye on what’s happening with public transport patronage in Auckland and to a lesser extent in Wellington. Other than the fact that these are the two biggest PT regions in New Zealand it’s also because they are the ones with relatively easy monthly data available. …
Peds Rule Re-post
The issues of pedestrian priority came up at the Auckland Conversation with Skye Duncan last night (and I think at the IPENZ conference). This was originally published 25 July 2013. Changing the road rules to favor pedestrians at intersections is something that will transform city life.…
Mission Bay Businesses paying to convert carparks to footpaths
In an environment where we constantly hear about retailers fighting tooth and nail to retain car parking at the expense of pedestrians (I’m especially looking at you High St retailers), it’s refreshing to see the opposite about to occur in Mission Bay.…
Unitary Plan Roosting Chickens
The council’s decision to withdraw their [not really] out of scope changes is already seeing it’s chickens starting to come home to roost. As Radio NZ’s Todd Niall reported yesterday
Auckland Council has withdrawn staff from crucial hearings on the city’s future, saying its hands are tied by political revolt.…
John Key visits Aotea Station
One side effect of the government’s announcement in late January to allow for the CRL to start on time in 2018 has been for a string of senior government politicians to visit the CRL team to see what’s going on.
Just over a week after the announcement Auckland Central MP Nikki Kay was getting a virtual tour of the Aotea Station Two weeks after that Transport Minister Simon Bridges had a tour.…
AT’s added PT capacity
Following on from my post last week about March Madness, Auckland Transport provided me with the following table showing how much capacity has been added to the PT system since April last year and showing how much is planned to be added by the middle of this year.…
Inner West cycle consultation
Auckland Transport have started consultation on cycling networks for the inner west of the isthmus which is being funded as part of the governments urban cycleway funding.
A bit like they did with the Glen Innes consultation, AT are asking about what people want to see for the whole network rather than just one route.…
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