Weekly Roundup – 15-Jan-21
Welcome back to the Weekly roundup. The news has been light over the last few weeks but there are a few things that have caught out eye.
Firstly, how great is this effort from Alex It's taken months of part collecting and assembling, but finally the Lego @AklTransport inspired station is (almost) complete!…
34 Comments Of Trees and Housing
Urban trees have become an increasingly heated topic over the last few years, and understandably so given how many have been lost after the previous government removed blanket protections from the RMA.
This is manifesting itself currently in Avondale in a battle between a much needed housing development and the fate of a single but significant tree.…
Recent Road Safety Discussions
In 2020, a total of 320 people lost their lives on our roads. That’s an improvement on the 350 people that were killed the year before, but the improvement is due to little travel occurring during the first COVID lockdown and if you take the main part of the lockdown out, April and May, the rest of the year was higher (289 last year vs 279 the year before).…
The Penlink Question – two or four?
As I mentioned yesterday in my look ahead, if it sticks to the timetable laid out in the NZ Upgrade Programme (NZUP), Penlink is due to start construction later this year. But a question that is going to continue to swirl around the project is if it should be two or four lanes wide.…
2021 – The Year Ahead
Welcome to 2021. After wrapping up 2020 before Christmas, here’s a look at some of the things we can expect to see in 2021. Lots of projects to be completed
While we will continue to see and have to deal with the impacts of COVID, one big theme this year is we’re finally going start to see the benefit of all the disruption that the city has been experiencing with the completion/opening of a lot projects all around Auckland.…
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