May-23 AT Board Meeting
It’s been two months, but today the Auckland Transport board meet again. There’s a lot on the agenda so I can’t cover it all in this post but here are some of the highlights from their regular board papers. The open session starts at 11am and can be watched on this Teams link.…
51 Comments National’s Housing Policy Backtrack
After signalling it a week ago, yesterday National launched their new housing policy which abandons their support for the Medium Density Residential Standards (MDRS) that they had worked with the government to deliver back in 2021 and shifts the focus to more sprawl.…
Weekly Roundup 26-May-2023
Welcome to Friday – again! Hard to believe we’re almost in June. Here’s our latest roundup of stories that caught our eye this week. The Week in Greater Auckland On Monday, Matt covered the transport highlights from this year’s Budget.
On Tuesday, Matt asked if the end is finally in sight for bus disruption
Yesterday, Matt looked at some of the implications on other projects of the delay on the City Rail Link Reminder on Karanga-a-Hape Station neighbourhood Consultation
A quick reminder that today is the last day to give feedback on the consultation for improvements around the Karanga-a-Hape station entrances.…
CRL Delay Implications for Other Projects
Back in March we learnt about the change in cost and timeline for the City Rail Link. An article in the Herald the other day brought the issue of the timeline back up again
Auckland’s $5.5 billion City Rail Link (CRL) will not open until sometime in 2026 or later, the Herald can reveal.…
The end in sight for bus disruption?
It’s been a tough year for public transport users who have had to suffer through thousands of service cancellations, delays and rail network closures. There is now some home that there may be a little bit of light at the tunnel, it won’t be a train as there’s still a heap of work to do on rebuilding the rail network, but it may well be a bus.…
Budget 2023 Highlights
Last week the government released their latest budget. By in large it seems to have been fairly well received and one thing that strikes me about it is there was not one large headline grabbing initiative but lots of little ones that added up.…
Weekly Roundup 19-May-2023
Welcome to Friday. Here’s our latest roundup of stories that caught our eye this week. The Week in Greater Auckland On Monday, Matt looked at Christchurch’s proposal for light rail
On Tuesday, Matt covered AT’s Hobson St consultation
Yesterday, Matt highlighted how we’re taking resilience more seriously but we need to do the same with emissions reductions The Budget
The government delivered their latest budget yesterday.…
Taking Resilience More Seriously
This year New Zealand has been given the clearest signal yet that we need to do our part to address climate change, both in reducing our emissions – which by most measures we’re not even trying to do – and in improving our resilience.…
AT’s Hobson St consultation with a difference
Auckland Transport are consulting on plans to add new bus lanes on Hobson St as part of the Northwest Bus Improvements that will see the introduction of a Western Express in November.
I’ll cover the consultation later in the post but first, this consultation is somewhat unique due to the inclusion of a single comment that we really need to see happen far more often.…
Christchurch to finally get Rapid Transit?
Plans for light rail are way off the rails in Auckland and on the ropes in Wellington, could Christchurch get it right and deliver New Zealand’s first modern light rail line?
Last week a committee of the Greater Christchurch Partnership, a voluntary coalition of local government, mana whenua and government agencies, were asked to endorse the Greater Christchurch Public Transport Futures Mass Rapid Transit Indicative Business Case.…
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