Better Renting through New Housing Models
This is a guest post by Meredith Dale and Greer O’Donnell, The Urban Advisory.
Housing in New Zealand generally falls into one of three tenure groups: home ownership, private rental or social housing, with a limited amount of community housing (Figure 1).…
40 Comments Swanson Rd Safety
Auckland Transport are currently consulting on safety improvements to Swanson Rd through the Ranui town centre – consultation closes on Friday.
The changes are needed because the road is currently unsafe
Swanson Road is a high-risk road where over 50 crashes have taken place and 3 lives have sadly been lost here between 2013 – 2017.…
Speeding Buses
The Herald yesterday reported on some shocking figures on bus speeding and red light running.
Nearly $700,000 worth of fines have been handed out to speeding bus drivers in the past five years, including one who was clocked going 61km/h over the limit.…
What’s wrong with ATAP
Politicians love the fanfare of announcing big projects and so were likely somewhat taken aback at the lack of enthusiasm from the announcement on Friday of a record $31.4 billion, decade long package of transport funding for Auckland.
The package is the latest iteration of the Auckland Transport Alignment Project (ATAP) and just three years ago we were celebrating the previous version as a huge step forward for transport planning in Auckland.…
Weekly Roundup – 12-Mar-20
Here’s our roundup for the week. Making Driving Worse
The Spinoff’s Hayden Donnell has written a fantastic piece on why we need to make driving in Auckland worse. I’d highly recommend giving it a read if you haven’t already.
If we make driving impractical for the people who don’t really need to use a car, those who really do need one might finally have space to get around.…
The PT Slump
COVID is still impacting our daily lives and one area it’s doing so more than others when it comes to public transport usage.
Since the pandemic started, Auckland Transport have been publishing daily public transport usage which has helped give a fascinating insight into the impact it has had on our PT network – I’ve yet to find any other agency internationally going to this level of detail publicly.…
There’s Gold in Them There Roads
Auckland’s streets are paved with gold. Over the coming decade, several billion dollars will be earmarked for regular road renewals, rolling out 300km or so of fresh surface per year.
You can’t begrudge this expenditure – nobody loves a pot hole, and everyone deserves a smoother ride!…
We need better Trucks
Nationally, heavy vehicles make up just 4% of the total vehicle fleet and 7% of the kilometres travelled. But around 20% of road deaths come from crashes involving trucks – which is not to say they’re responsible for all those crashes but it’s clear we need to improve the safety of trucks.…
So we’re back to Unhealthy Streets, then?
Last May, Auckland Transport eliminated all mention of the “Healthy Streets” approach from the Roads and Streets Framework.
A three page annex on the topic was removed, as well as discussion about how to incorporate it. I checked for the key concept words and they, too, were missing.…
Weekly Roundup – 5-Mar-20
Here’s our wrap up for the week. Federal St
The Council has announced that they’re finally starting to convert Federal St between Mayoral Dr and Wellesley into a shared space.
A new shared space is coming to the city centre with work commencing in March to transform Federal Street between Mayoral Drive and Wellesley Street into a safer space for pedestrians.…
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