What might the playful city look like?
This is a guest post by Alex Bonham. Alex is doing a PhD on the playful city at the University of Auckland in which she melds urban theory with play and performance theory. Her book Play and the City was published in July this year.…
20 Comments Auckland Transport’s 2021 Speed Limit Change Proposal
Two years ago Auckland Transport embarked on a programme to change the speed limits on many roads around Auckland as part of their efforts to improve road safety. They started with changing the limits of around 700km of roads around the region, that’s about 10% of all local roads.…
Weekly Roundup 08-October-2021
Greetings! We’ve made it to the end of another week. The week in Greater Auckland On Monday Matt wrote about the death of the walking and cycling bridge across the Waitematā.
In Tuesday’s post, Matt asked why induced demand, although well understood, continues to be ignored.…
Clawing Back the Cost of Sprawl
Auckland is currently in the middle of a massive building boom with consents reaching a new all-time high in August with just under 20,000 issued in the last 12 months. Most of these consents are within the existing urban area but as Auckland’s population has grown, so too has its urban footprint.…
Using Deliberative Democracy to explore the future of Auckland’s water supply
This is a guest post by Dr. Tatjana Buklijas. Tatjana is Associate Director at Koi Tū: The Centre for Informed Futures, and a Senior Lecturer in Global Studies at The University of Auckland.
This post is based on a Business Lab podcast featuring Tatjana and Dr.…
Why is induced demand still ignored?
An excellent recent article on CityLab discusses the important concept of ‘induced demand’ – the phenomenon where additional road capacity encourages more people to drive and fills the road back up again – as well as asking the important question of why is so much money still being spent on road widening when we know it doesn’t work.…
Northern Pathway dies
On Saturday the government announced they have scrapped the walking and cycling bridge across the harbour, something that was first hinted at in August.
The Government has listened to feedback from New Zealanders and has decided not to proceed with the standalone bridge component of the Northern Pathway project and reallocate the funding to other transport projects that reduce emissions and congestion including the Eastern busway, Transport Minister Michael Wood announced today.…
Weekly Roundup 01-October-2021
Featured image: a Tokyo logistics trolley, Dan Hill/Medium
And just like that, it’s October already. Aucklanders spent all of Mahuru/September, in lockdown. Hope you’re all doing well, here’s our weekly roundup!
The week in Greater Auckland Monday’s post by Matt dove into Auckland’s public transport fares, how they’ve changed over the last decade, and how they compare to other cities
On Tuesday, Matt wrote about the just-announced cluster of Midtown regeneration projects
Wednesday’s post by Marita recounted her experience of a lockdown ride to the city centre, and the kid’s-eye view it gave her
And yesterday’s post, again authored by Matt, went through the items on the list for this month’s AT board meeting.…
September-21 Board Meeting
Today the Auckland Transport board meet again and here are the highlights from their board reports. You can also watch the open session of the meeting live between 9am to 9:55am if you want via this Microsoft Teams link. Closed Agenda
Below are the items from the closed agenda that caught my attention the most.…
Kid’s-eye view of a waterfront ride
For me, the best thing about lockdown, hands-down, has been sharing the road with heaps more other people on bikes than I usually do. I get particularly excited when I see a whole family out on bikes together.
A couple of weekends ago, I went for a ride along the waterfront with the kids who are in my bubble.…
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