Hi and welcome back to Sunday Reading. I’m returning this week to Richard Florida where he highlights how restrictive development regulations have contributed to the “new urban crisis”. Richard Florida, “Meet the ‘New Urban Luddites’“, City Lab.
The New Urban Luddism does not just limit the construction of new homes and apartments; more troublingly, it also puts an artificial cap on the further development and expansion of entire cities.…
Every Saturday we dig into the archives to highlight a post from around 5 years ago. Today’s post looks back at plans for the development of Auckland’s rail network prior to light-rail coming along. One key thing to note in reading this post is that it illustrates that building Heavy Rail to the North Shore and the Airport requires a new, underground, rail tunnel that runs east-west across the city centre – a “CRL 2” in a sense.…
The City Rail Link really seems to be moving forward at the moment. Physical construction on the first sections are no wel underway and progress on the main works from Wyndham to Mt Eden are at various stages of the tender process.…
Some people have been a bit surprised that our Congestion Free Network does not expand our existing heavy rail network to a greater extent, particularly given the significant investment currently under way in the City Rail Link. I covered off that issue to some extent a few weeks ago by highlighting that CRL does not have unlimited capacity – one of the reasons we propose complementing the heavy rail network with a new, light-rail, network.…
In the discussion of transport funding recently, a lot of focus from Mayor Phil Goff has been about introducing a regional fuel tax, something the former Labour government he was apart of approved but that was repealed by the current government before it could be implemented.…
Preamble: This is the second of three posts I intend to write on the transport profession. My goals are to 1) encourage people, especially students, to consider a career in transport and 2) foster a better understanding of pertinent transport issues.…
I recently had some surgery, and as a result I’ve temporarily had mobility issues. From a transport perspective it has been an illuminating experience. I’ve discovered some great, as well as some not so great, things on the network from an mobility point of view.…
How to fund transport in Auckland is quickly shaping up as a major issue over the next few months, and potentially even during the election later this year. The issue has flared up following a war of words over the weekend between Finance Minister Steven Joyce and Mayor Phil Goff. …
It’s always fascinating looking back at old some of the old videos of Auckland. Thanks to Shard in the comments the other day for highlighting this video which I hadn’t seen before.
REPORT ON AUCKLAND: A report on the attractions and developments in Auckland.…
On Friday the council finally announced three new board directors for Auckland Transport in a process that was delayed significantly due to the local body elections last year.
Former Finance Minister Sir Michael Cullen, Mary-Jane Daly and Kylie Clegg have been appointed to the board of the Auckland Council-controlled organisation Auckland Transport (AT).…
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