The NZ Rail Legislation Bill – submissions close Friday
For almost as long as this site has existed, we have bemoaned the double-standard between funding arrangements for road and rail projects. Whereas road projects had a regular budget – through NZTA – and therefore could be planned with confidence many years ahead, rail investments always needed to be made through ad hoc processes and had no long-term funding certainty.…
65 Comments News Year’s Eve 2019
The last time I spent New Year’s Eve in central Auckland was years ago. We had dinner downtown and as midnight approached, made a break for a friend’s apartment where we could watch the limp fireworks off the Sky Tower while avoiding the clumps of drunken teenagers and wayward boy racers hovering on Queen Street.…
THIS IS NOT A DRILL
The climate crisis is real. It’s not a drill. If we do nothing, Barcelona and the planet will become uninhabitable for future generations.
Barcelona declared a Climate Emergency on the 15th January 2020
with an action plan and a budget of 563 million euros We are talking about a profound transition in every aspect of the city: its productive system, its people, how we work, how we move around, etc.…
Flashback Saturday – Shedding light on Auckland’s population density
Every weekend we dig into the archives. This post was first published in November 2011.
Last night’s post about Eric Thompson’s silly NZ Herald article highlighted one unresolved matter – the question of “what is Auckland’s population density?” I noted that according to Wikipedia, the urban density of Auckland is around 1250 people per square kilometre whereas Demographia states a density of around 2,200.…
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