Flashback Saturday: The linear city and other science fictions
This post by Peter Nunns was first published in March 2016
Last week, urban designer lecturers Dushko Bogunovich and Matthew Bradbury published an article on their vision for transforming Auckland into a “linear city”:
Instead, we suggest a linear, city-region that follows the opportunities and respects the constraints in the landscape.…
15 Comments Fixing Rail Congestion in Auckland
It has been known for a while what the major congestion points for rail that will not be fixed by CRL are: Westfield-Wiri where a third main (track) is needed as most Auckland Freight movements, as well as two passenger lines the southern and eastern share limited tracks in this section;
Westfield Junction which suffers from many of the same issues as the above where a proposed “Westfield Lite” upgrade is proposed.…
Network not so frequent
Auckland Transport’s new network is still in the middle of rolling out, with the last two key urban areas still to go. The Isthmus routes are due to start 08-July and North Shore on 30-September. Where the new network has already been implemented, the results are looking positive.…
Greater Auckland’s 10-year budget and Auckland Plan submission
Submissions on the council’s 10-year budget and the 30-year Auckland Plan close tonight at 8pm. If you want to submit and haven’t yet, you need to get on to it now. Submitting is easy and you don’t need to submit on every question if you don’t want to.…
Panmure Modelling – Expectation vs Reality
One of the big issues we have had with public transport modelling, which is used to make forecasts about how many people might use different routes in the future, is how the transport models deal with transfers. A transfer (or connection) is where someone changes from one service onto another.…
Fixing the rail crossing at Ngāruawhāhia?
The crossing over the Waikato River at Ngāruawhāhia is one of two pinch points of single track on the rail line between Auckland and Hamilton, the other being through the Whangamarino swamp north of Te Kauwhata.
The crossing also is a hot spot of near misses and fatalities with an 11-year-old girl being struck by a train very recently.…
Health and carbon consequences of current transport arrangements in NZ cities
This is a guest post by Caroline Shaw, Ed Randal, Alistair Woodward and Michael Keall
NZ is the most car dominated country in the world, but transport patterns vary across our urban centres. The six largest NZ cities have had different histories and priorities, which over time, has led to quite diverse transport arrangements (see Table 1).…
Huge Housing Development at Unitec announced
Yesterday, inside the stunning wharenui of the Te Noho Kotahitanga Marae at Unitec, the government announced it was purchasing 29 hectares of land from Unitec for a huge housing development as part of their Kiwibuild policy. The Government has announced the first major development under its ambitious KiwiBuild programme with the purchase of 29 hectares of land for thousands of houses in Auckland.…
Fix Our City
This is a guest post from Leroy Beckett of Generation Zero
Every three years Auckland Council consult on their plan for the next 10 years. It covers everything from the transport budget to targeted rates and goals for our environment.
That consultation is currently underway.…
Sunday reading 25 March 2018
Welcome back to Sunday Reading. Here are a bunch of articles I’ve been collecting over the last month. I’ll start off here with housing, or more specifically zoning. Recently published research reveals the outrageous costs that zoning adds to housing in Australia.…
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