Confessions of an Auckland voter: Why I voted for Chlöe
Introduction
Greetings from Amsterdam. A couple of issues relating to Auckland’s local government elections have exercised my mind of late, specifically: Candidates for councillor in the Waitemata ward; and
Why I voted Chlöe Swarbrick for Mayor of Auckland. Before I get started, I’d like to make a simple statement about democracy.…
119 Comments Onehunga ceded to the NZTA
We’ve long been concerned about the East-West Link, from the when it was suddenly catapulted out of nowhere from not even being on long term plans straight to being one of the city’s top transport priorities, to effectively becoming one of the governments Roads of National Significance.…
CRL Under Construction: Three Shafts Deep
The city is awash with construction and none more visible than the works for the City Rail Link. Most of the work so far has been to move services out of the way so that the tunnels can be built without breaking something – and there are a lot of services to move.…
Sunday reading 2 October 2016
Welcome back to Sunday reading. This week, we’re starting with an important article that all of our readers who work in the transport planning field should read in full and share with their colleagues. David Levinson (Transportist) writes about “Dogfooding: why transit employees and managers should use transit“:
The term “dogfooding”, derived from “eating your own dog food”, is popular in the tech sector, and implies that a company should use its own products wherever it can.…
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