Flashback Saturday: Auckland’s city centre is getting more diverse
Most Saturdays we dig into the archives. This post by John was originally published in September 2014.
This post is the first part of what will be a three-part series on Auckland’s city centre and the 2013 census stats on it.…
5 Comments Weekly Roundup 16-September-2022
Ah, kua tae mai te rā whakatā. The weekend has arrived!
Cover image via Ensemble Magazine. The week in Greater Auckland
In Monday’s post, Heidi explained that for the Government’s strategic direction, the road authorities need to read the GPS – they shouldn’t just blindly keep spending Activity Class funds in the same old way.…
Neighbourhoods: the missing ingredient
This is a guest post by reader Grady Connell. It was originally published on Today FM.
This is a story about the missing ingredient from both a cookie recipe… and newer housing developments. After listening to Tova O’Brien’s interview about how walkable your neighbourhood is and completing a recent ride around Pukekohe’s newer neighbourhoods, it made me realise there’s a missing ingredient.…
Here, have some hardcore fantasising
This is a guest post by commentator-about-town David Slack, who has kindly liberated it from his excellent Substack newsletter for the greater benefit of Greater Auckland readers. God, but I love a train.
Imagine being in Vienna last week, with all the travel writers and railway buffs invited there to see a new generation of night trains for Europe.…
The Notified Unitary Plan Revision
The Auckland Council are currently consulting on the publicly notified changes to the Auckland Unitary Plan (AUP).
The proposal follows a draft consultation on the changes the Council launched in April and are in response to the governments housing rules under the National Policy Statement on Urban Development (NPS-UD) from 2020 and the Medium Density Residential Standards (MDRS) from 2021.…
Activity Classes are not the Strategic Direction
Streets so safe that getting around by bike is easy, children are independent, and our elderly can move around town without feeling stressed. Public transport so attractive that no one ever feels forced to drive. A transport system that becomes gradually less expensive to operate, and more environmentally sustainable, as it is improved over time.…
Flashback Saturday: Auckland can’t afford to price out its young
Most Saturdays we dig into the archives. This post by Peter was originally published in September 2014.
It’s no secret that Auckland has a problem with high-cost housing. House prices have risen significantly faster than average incomes in recent years. As a recent Treasury working paper (Skidmore, 2014) documented, Auckland’s house prices have quadrupled in the last generation, and rents have more than doubled.…
Weekly Roundup 09-September-2022
Kia ora! hope you’ve had a lovely first week of Mahuru. The week in Greater Auckland
Monday’s post was a dive into building consent data both from Auckland and across the rest of the motu.
Tuesday’s post responded to a recent op-ed by Simon Bridges which criticised the TERP’s position on travel time savings.…
No Mobility / No Travel
A tweet a few days ago from Auckland Transport highlighted for me a major issue with so much of our public transport infrastructure, its lack of redundancy. UPDATE 6/09
The lift is currently still out of service at Henderson Station & we've been advised that the fault may not be resolved until Monday 12/09/2022.…
Streets for People: more agile projects on the way
The Streets for People programme was launched yesterday at Newtown School in Wellington. This is a $30m boost from Waka Kotahi to help councils around the country make adaptable changes to streets and public spaces.
The event was covered by Stuff, RNZ,and Newshub, with some pretty cute footage of the Transport Minister and Mayor of Wellington riding bikes alongside locals of all sizes.…
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