Sunday reading 11 June 2017
Hi and welcome back to Sunday Reading.
On Tuesday we helped host a fun event with Bike Auckland and Generation Zero featuring Jeff Tumlin. You can see the images here. We will post the video of the event when it’s available. …
13 Comments Flashback Saturday: “Tearing down the Dominion Rd interchange”
This was originally posted in December 2014. If you have an old post that you’d like us to run again, please let us know.
The herald yesterday highlighted an idea we’ve long championed, removing the eyesore that is the Dominion Rd Interchange and developing the land freed up by it.…
New Network in West Auckland goes live Sunday
On Sunday the next major step in the roll-out of the new bus network takes place, this time in West Auckland – and a few services that also serve the isthmus too. As AT said in a recent press release over it, everything is changing, this includes new bus routes, new route numbers and new timetables.…
Hamilton Rail in holding pattern
We’ve long been supporters of extending passenger rail services to Hamilton and have written about it on numerous occasions. Done well, it could provide not only a useful transport service but also open a new front to help combat Auckland’s housing crisis.…
The Ranui Bus and Train Timetable in 1992
This is a Guest Post from Darren Davis, who works in the Council’s Design Office. All opinions are his own.
Auckland’s New Network West is being implemented on Sunday, 11th of June. This constitutes the most significant single improvement to West Auckland’s bus network in living memory, putting aside the fact that the planned Northwestern Busway will undoubtedly be the next big step change.…
Why we need to Complete the City Centre Masterplan & why the Crown should help
Recently Auckland Council released an update confirming that the City Centre would indeed reach 45000 residents this year. In 2012 this was not forecast to happen until 2032 & shows the strong demand for the City Centre which Auckland Council are calling a “Renaissance of inner-urban living”.…
Smarter pricing study announced
The government today made their road pricing announcement, that they’d agreed a terms of reference to look into it. Those terms of reference also contain one glaring contradiction.
The project is going to be investigated like ATAP was with the government and council working together on it.…
Three Waters Infrastructure; What does Auckland need? – Part 1 – Wastewater
In order to build the houses we need to combat this housing crisis one the major prerequisites of this is infrastructure, without it, the development couldn’t succeed. This post is about a highly but often forgotten element of infrastructure Three Waters – Water Supply, Wastewater & Stormwater focusing in this part on Wastewater.…
Now a $7 billion shortfall
As well as revealing that the government would be making an announcement on road pricing this week, Mayor Phil Goff also made another interesting comment in relation to transport in his interview on The Nation on the weekend. He mentioned that the funding shortfall from ATAP over the first decade has risen from $4 billion to $7 billion.…
Next steps towards smarter transport pricing
In an interview on Saturday morning’s The Nation, Mayor Phil Goff revealed that the government will be making an announcement on road pricing this week. But the thing is just because they see and understand that, that’s not making them give you more.…
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