Getting Regional Rapid Rail Right
The new Government has committed to at least the first stage Regional Rapid Rail which is great. In my previous post I discussed how it may be better to accelerate the programme incorporating parts of Stage 2 in 1. In this post, I am going to discuss important traps we must not fall into.…
112 Comments Staying awake on safety
The increasing levels of death and destruction on our roads has been a major issue for us this year. One of our complaints with previous government’s singular focus on a handful of large, expensive and gold plated projects was that it sucked funding away from a lot of valuable, low cost safety improvements.…
Kaikoura reconnected
Last Friday the NZTA finally reopened the section of State Highway north of Kaikoura. It was immediately clear after the earthquakes that the repair was going to be a huge job and it’s taken one year, one month and one day just to get to this point.…
Watch: Rotterdam, A Post-War Central City Moves Beyond the Automobile
Here’s a great new video documenting the progress that Rotterdam is making to become a nicer, more productive place. The city is rapidly expanding and improving it’s cycle network. Currently bicycle mode share is *only* 20%. They are also extending their light rail network and have a magnificent new central rail station with parking for 5,000 bikes.…
Dear Auckland, we need your help
This is a guest post from some of our friends in Wellington Let’s Get Wellington Moving (LGWM) will profoundly shape Wellington, and the window is almost closed to give your steer on the approach they’re taking. We need you, smart GA readers, to take two minutes and give some good progressive-transport feedback – by Friday 15 December at 5pm.…
Auckland’s Urban Freshwater – our historic relationship
This is a guest post from Ed Clayton
This is the first post of a three-part series exploring the relationships between freshwater and transport in Auckland. The aim of the combined series is to demonstrate how Auckland could seize the opportunity to build resilient water infrastructure at the same time as addressing transport issues, and to provoke discussion.…
Bikexplosion
It seems so long ago now, and if you’d only turned up in the city in the last month you wouldn’t believe it, but Auckland has been having one of its wettest years ever. By September we’d already received more rain than we normally get in a year.…
Riding the Eastern New Network
This is a guest post from reader and friend of the blog, Shan L
With Sunday being the launch of the New Network for the East, together with Harriet I yet again decided to get on a few buses and trains to find out how well it was working.…
Development Update: December 2017
As I sat down to write this “Development Update” post, the 30th one I’ve done, I realised I didn’t really know what I wanted to write about. So I thought I’d throw it over to you guys, our Greater Auckland readers.…
Auckland Transport spineless on Onewa Road
Auckland is growing rapidly and that’s placing huge pressure on our transport networks. It’s also now widely agreed that there simply isn’t the space to cheaply or easily widen roads. That means that if we want to move more people around this city, we need to make more efficient use of those transport networks, especially our roads.…
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