Manurewa (Area 2) Safety Improvements Project
It’s good to see progress towards a safer city, with Auckland Transport consulting on its next project in the road safety programme:
The Manurewa (Area 2) Safety Improvements project. Submissions are due next Monday 8th March.
At the end of this post, I also outline an alternative approach for future safety projects, which will enable Auckland Transport to achieve much more from the same budget.…
The NPS and the upzoning of the city
In the attachments to the agenda for the Council’s Planning Committee tomorrow is a copy of a presentation used in a workshop with councillors on changes that will need to be made to planning rules in relation to the Government’s National Policy Statement on Urban Development (NPS-UD) that was released last year.…
ATAP cannot be a 2018 plan for a 2021 world
The Auckland Council’s Planning Committee agenda for Thursday highlights councillors received a confidential update to the ‘Auckland Transport Alignment Project’ (ATAP), as well as the draft Regional Land Transport Plan (RLTP) about a month ago.
These are incredibly important documents, shaping where around $30 billion of transport investment in Auckland will be directed over the next decade.…
The Harbour Bridge is not falling down
On Thursday Waka Kotahi fronted up to parliament’s Transport and Infrastructure Select Committee as part of their annual review. Over the course of about an hour they were asked a huge number and range of questions from the various Members of Parliament present.…