A vision for the Waterfront
While we’re underwhelmed by the vision announced on Sunday of a roads first harbour crossing, far more interesting is the vision for the waterfront being pushed by Mayor Wayne Brown and the council that was released last week.
At a series of confidential workshops, council staff, independent advisors Flagstaff Partners, GHD Engineering and Eke Panuku discussed the draft findings of land release options for waterfront land.…
38 Comments The Harbour Crossing Boondoggle
Yesterday, not to be outdone by National’s mega roads plan, Labour announced an absurd $35-45 billion harbour crossing programme that doubles down on the transport planning mistakes of Auckland’s past.
Two new three lane road tunnels under the Waitemata Harbour, one going in each direction, and a separate light rail tunnel that will link to the existing Auckland Light Rail corridor is the proposed plan for a second Auckland harbour crossing, Prime Minister Chris Hipkins and Transport Minister David Parker announced today.…
Weekly Roundup 04-August-2023
Welcome to the end of another week. Here’s some of the things that caught our attention this week. The Week In Greater Auckland On Monday Matt laid out some ideas and policies we’d like to see from political parties this election.…
National’s 2023 Transport Policy
On Monday, National launched its transport policy for the upcoming election, showing that at least National have learnt how to recycle, with the policy largely recycled from their 2020 campaign, which itself was mostly recycled from 2017.
As expected, the policy is almost all about building lots of big roads, once again using the Roads of National Significance (RoNS) name.…
2023 Election transport policies we’d like to see
Today we’re just 75 days away from the next election and the parties are about to start pumping our their various transport policies. With that in mind, I thought I’d lay out our thoughts on what a good transport policy might be.…
Weekly Roundup 28-July-2023
Welcome to the end of another wet winter week. Does it help to know it’s less than five months till Christmas? Our feature image this week is a moody Karangahape Road in the rain, courtesy of Scott Caldwell. The Week In Greater Auckland Tuesday’s post by Matt dug into recent stats on travel into and around the city centre.…
The Pothole Blame Game
Potholes have become an election issue with both National and Labour blaming each other for the state of our roads.
For its part, National have created a $500 million Pothole Repair Fund
Asked whether this was a political gimmick Brown said: “Not at all, this is a reality of our roads being in the worst state they’ve ever been and the need for us to be investing in making sure that they are safe to drive on so we can keep our economy moving.”…
City Centre Transport Update – July-23
Last week Auckland Transport gave an update to the council’s Transport and Infrastructure Committee on city centre transport operations. You can watch the presentation here, along with questions from Councillors, it’s just under 30 minutes long. There were a few things that stood out (including from the attached presentations).…
Weekly Roundup 21-July-2023
Welcome to Friday. Here are a few stories that stood out this week. The Week in Greater Auckland On Monday, Robert McLachlan wrote about the bicycle as climate hope.
On Tuesday, Matt covered Auckland Transport’s proposed new Regional Public Transport Plan.…
The Future Development Strategy
This is a guest post by Heidi O’Callahan.
We currently have an opportunity to change how Auckland grows, and Council wants to know what you think.
Submissions on the draft Future Development Strategy (“draft Strategy” or “FDS”) are due on the 31st July.…
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