June AT Board Meeting
Today the AT 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 and 10:15am via this Microsoft Teams link. Closed Agenda
Below are the most interesting items from the closed agenda.…
29 Comments The real barriers to road safety
There are some glimmers of light coming from Auckland Transport, even on the extremely frustrating topic of delivering the cycleway network the city needs (one of their most hobbled programmes in recent years). One of the more hopeful signs is a project announced last year to quickly add physical protection to 60km of existing painted cycleways across the region.…
Light Rail’s Sponsored Defence
Yesterday the Herald ran a sponsored article from the Auckland Light Rail team (ALR) on their plans for tunnelled light rail. The main point of the article seems to be about trying to justify their solution compared to a surface one.…
Abolish Zoning?
Much is made about how our cities manage the growth of the housing stock by engaging in the process of “urban planning”, that this is performed by “urban planners”, and that the colourful maps which are the outcome of this process done by these people are “plans”.…
Weekly Roundup 23-June-22
Kia ora koutou. Weekly roundup’s coming a day early this week because tomorrow is our very first Matariki public holiday. Cover image by Mark Russell, via Twitter. The week in Greater Auckland
On Monday, Matt wrote about the future of the Onehunga line, which will no longer go all the way to Britomart after this weekend.…
What’s happening with PT ridership
Public transport usage has been all over the place since the start of the pandemic over two years ago. Where we once were celebrating ever new milestones and wondering how high usage would get in certain timeframes, we now how long, it will take just for usage to get back to pre-pandemic levels.…
Penlink To Start
Waka Kotahi recently announced the construction partners for building Ō Mahurangi Penlink, a massive new $830 million, 7 km road through farmland and coastal environment to the Whangaparāoa Peninsula. This comes after the government gave their final approval to the project at the start of the month.…
The Onehunga Line Change
This Friday represents the first time we celebrate Matariki with a public holiday but it’s also represents the last time that trains on the Onehunga Line will go all the way to Britomart. Services are being cut back to Newmarket due to City Rail Link works but as I’ll explain later in the post, I suspect services are unlikely to be extended back again.…
Weekly Roundup 17-June-2022
Nau mai haere mai to the last weekly roundup before days start getting longer again. What does the middle of the year bring us? Lots! The week in Greater Auckland
On Monday, we shared a guest post that asked: is it time to switch sides?…
Ain’t no party like a car-truck party
This is a guest post by Regan from Island Bay Healthy Streets. The post is republished with permission.
A group of six Wellington businesses who are taking Wellington City Council to court over plans for a temporary cycleway from Newtown to the CBD have won an injunction to stop the work until the judicial review can be heard in September.…
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