A quieter week from us in after the last one, but here’s some stuff that caught our attention. Feel free to share anything you found in the comments! This week on Greater Auckland On Wednesday, we had a guest post from Darren Davis about the state of rail across Aotearoa.…
The current government might be inexplicably hostile to cycling as a transport mode, and COVID might have changed the nature of work and thus commuting, especially in places like the city centre. But that’s not stopping people getting on their bike – especially as most trips aren’t even work trips.…
This is a guest post by Darren Davis. It originally appeared on his excellent blog, Adventures in Transitland, which we encourage you to check out. It is shared by kind permission. In a recent blog post, I outlined the implications of the 2024-2027 Rail Network Investment Plan for Aotearoa/ New Zealand’s rail network.…
It’s been a busy week. Here are a few things that caught our attention – as always, feel free to share relevant links in the comments so we can all catch up with the news on cities and what makes them great!…
The situation: Auckland Transport is in a lonely race to raise speeds on hundreds of local streets (over 1500, in fact) under the new Speed Rule. This is evidently by choice – other cities are taking a more considered and rational approach.…
It’s been nearly five years since the NPS-UD directed councils to enable more apartment-style housing in high-access areas. After years of delay, Auckland’s response — Plan Change 78 (PC78) — is finally up for a key vote before the Planning Committee on May 22.…
Last week was Road Safety Week, which Auckland Transport marked by sharing a happy little video about safety at the school gate, while quietly beginning the reversal of safe speeds on 1500+ streets, mostly around schools. Strange times.
There was no media release about the speed reversals, but perhaps strangest of all was the missed opportunity to celebrate the last-minute rescue of (parts of) two neighbourhoods from speed reversals.…
Patrick Reynolds is deputy chair of the City Centre Advisory Panel
With Auckland Transport racing towards risky speed increases at the behest of the previous Minister of Transport’s Speed Rule, all eyes are on the consequences. These include an increase in risk for everyone on Auckland’s transport network, and a legal risk for those implementing the changes.…
This is a guest post by Vinetta Plummer, Policy and Government Lead for Healthy Families Waitākere, West Auckland mum of two, community advocate, and school board member.
Written for Road Safety Week 2025, the post reflects on the government’s reversal of safer speed limits through a local, lived lens and explores how these changes undermine years of community-informed planning, raise serious equity concerns, and signal a broader pattern of rolling back evidence-based policy in favour of short-term economics.…
It’s Friday once again, here’s some things that caught our attention this week. This week on Greater Auckland On Tuesday we had a guest post from Stu Donovan asking what we might do to strengthen our urban core.
On Wednesday a guest post from Christina Robertson asked why AT has commenced rolling out mass speed limit raises in Road Safety Week, when other cities have found a way around them.…
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