New in the Neighbourhood
This is a guest post by Konrad Kurta. This was originally published by Konrad on the Mangere Bridge community facebook page, when he and his family were preparing to move into their new home, in a development of new townhouses on Taylor Road.…
47 Comments How we’d build Light Rail
Tomorrow (Tuesday 31 August), the consultation for the Auckland Light Rail process closes. If you haven’t already, now’s a good time to provide some feedback.
We’ve been somewhat critical of this engagement process due to a lack of information about some of the key trade-offs that need to be made.…
Weekly roundup 27-Aug-2021
Header image via twitter user @wildbaynz
Ata mārie everyone. After a week and a half in lockdown you’re probably sick of the internet, but just in case you’re not, here’s our roundup of transport and urbanism reads for the week. City Rail Link August footage
This drone footage of the Mt Eden station area was taken just before work ceased because of the level 4 lockdown.…
Nothing is happening in Auckland’s city centre
I hope everyone is doing OK out there in level 4 lockdown. My walks and bike rides around the city centre in the last week remind me of the original lockdown 17 months ago. Some things have changed since then, but most things haven’t.…
August-21 AT Board Meeting
Tomorrow the Auckland Transport board meet again and here are the highlights from their board reports. Closed Agenda
The agenda for this closed session contains a lot of rail related items.
Items for Approval Rail Franchise – Procurement update – Our trains are currently run by Transdev and the company, or various iterations of it (Connex and Veolia) have been running them since around 2004.…
An Alternative North Shore Rail Crossing Route
This is a guest post by reader Andy B
The best route for a second crossing of the Waitemata Harbour is back on the agenda. This week the government signalled a ‘rethink’ of the pedestrian/cycle bridge and work going into a tunnel crossing of the harbour as part of the whole network approach.…
The Ministry of Education
COVID-19 Response Minister, Chris Hipkins, volunteered fodder for jokes yesterday, when he stumbled on an unfortunate combination of “spread their wings” and “stretch their legs.” Advice from @chrishipkins for those who want to "get out and spread their legs" pic.twitter.com/xIt8YUTy2J
— Dan News (@dannews) August 22, 2021 Chuckles aside, what was no laughing matter was his perverse transport advice:
It is a challenge in higher density areas for people to get outside and to spread stretch their legs when they are surrounded by other people, and so in some cases it might be more sensible for them to drive a short distance to get to somewhere where they can be further from other people.…
Weekly Roundup 20-Aug-21
Kia ora koutou kātoa (that’s our best Ashley Bloomfield impression), we’re settling into Level 4 life once more, and hope you’re going OK.
It’s been quite a week all around the motu, with good news and not-so-good news. It was encouraging to hear at the 1pm briefing yesterday that there is a likely link between the current community cases and a recent MIQ case.…
Lockdown streets: here we go again
For the first time since April 2020, Aotearoa is back in a Level 4 lockdown following the discovery of a case of the Delta variant of Covid-19 in the community. The lockdown will initially go for 7 days in Auckland and the Coromandel, and 3 days in the rest of the country.…
What caused our rail network problems
A year ago yesterday, and in the middle of Auckland’s second lockdown, speeds on the entire Auckland rail network were slowed to just 40km/h as a safety precaution after Kiwirail revealed wear on the tracks, known as Rolling Contact Fatigue (RCF), was more widespread and severe than they previously realised.…
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