Weekly Roundup – Easter Edition
With Good Friday tomorrow, we thought we’d do the weekly roundup a day early this week. Here’s a basket of reading goodies for your long weekend.
Our header image this week, via the Auckland City Centre Residents Group, shows a social gathering in the Emily Place park (a legacy project of the original Innovating Streets programme, still going strong.)…
20 Comments Auckland’s Bus Cancellation Crisis Visualised
Radio NZ data journalist Farah Hancock has been digging into the issue of bus cancellations in Auckland and Wellington and has started a fascinating series about it.
In the first article on Monday, she’s taken a look at the overall picture based on data from February.…
Construction for next stage of Eastern Busway starts
On Saturday, Transport Minister Michael Wood and Mayor Wayne Brown turned the sod to mark the start of construction on the next stage of the Eastern Busway.
This milestone means construction is underway for the significant transport project’s final stretch, from Pakuranga towards Botany.…
What to do about the Northern Busway
One of the big unknowns with any potential new harbour crossing is what to do about the Northern Busway. The first busway services first started in late 2005, before there was a busway, when the Albany and Constellation Stations opened and buses just used shoulder lanes to get to the city.…
Leaked emails reveal plan to turn light-rail into a road tunnel
The NZ Herald reports:
Leaked emails between senior officials at Auckland Light Rail, Waka Kotahi and Auckland Transport have revealed a surprising twist in the long-running saga of the Auckland Light Rail project.
A stack of emails between Auckland Light Rail and an unnamed senior official at Waka Kotahi, who appears to have been a close colleague for many years in his former role at Waka Kotahi, have been leaked to the NZ Herald.…
Weekly Roundup 31-March-2023
Wow, it’s the end of March already. Here are a few of the smaller items that caught our attention over the last week. We need better trucks
Newsroom reported on a Ministry of Transport report showing just how dirty our current truck fleet is.…
Harbour Crossing Project now estimated to cost $15-25 billion
Big transport news today with the government beginning public engagement on options for the Waitemata Harbour Connections project. This project has had an incredibly long history, with previous versions somehow managing to be incredibly expensive, detrimental to most of the transport outcomes we are trying to achieve in Auckland, and massively environmentally damaging.…
Te Hā Noa to Start Construction
Some good news last week with the Council confirming that Te Hā Noa – Victoria St Linear Park will go ahead and with construction starting on 11 April – though with a few fishhooks.
Te Hā Noa, a renewed Victoria Street, is the next big project in Auckland Council’s Midtown Regeneration programme.…
Warkworth and the Cost of Sprawl
At the Auckland Transport board meeting today a series of papers really highlight the cost of sprawl.
For the last few years, the Supporting Growth work has been looking at designing the strategic transport networks for future greenfield areas in the South, Northwest, North (around Dairy flat) and in Warkworth.…
March-23 AT Board Meeting
Tomorrow the Auckland Transport board meet again. Here are some of the highlights from their board papers. The open session starts at 9am and can be watched on this Teams link. Closed Session
The closed session is typically where the most interesting items are discussed.…
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