How to fill Council’s climate leadership vacuum
This is a guest post by Heidi O’Callahan, about one way to improve the sorry state of climate leadership in Auckland.
For a frank and fair assessment of where Auckland is at, have a read of the Committee for Auckland’s recent report The State of the City, as covered by Patrick here.…
32 Comments Christchurch’s mass-transit future: How long will the city wait and what will it look like?
This is a guest post by Brendon Harre. It’s the fourth and final part in a series about Christchurch, it’s history, and what needs to change to fix it’s transport woes and this part has been published on Brendon’s medium.
You can read part one here, part two here, and part three here.…
Christchurch’s transport history: 1930’s to present
This is a guest post by Brendon Harre. It’s the third part of a post about Christchurch, it’s history, and what needs to change to fix it’s transport woes and this part has been published on Brendon’s medium.
You can read part one here and part two here.…
Weekly Roundup 25-July-2025
It’s the last Friday of July/ Hōngongoi, and here’s our roundup of things that caught our attention this week. This Week in Greater Auckland On Monday, Matt reported on AT’s shortlist of potential locations for “time of use” fees, aka congestion charging
For Wednesday, we had a guest post by David Slack on an exhibition of visions for uplifting Devonport
On Thursday, we had a guest post from Wellington-based Kasey McDonnell in praise of bus lanes Also this week, Matt made a guest appearance on The Hoon with Bernard Hickey, to tease out the implications of the plans for congestion-charging.…
Letter from Wellington: a glow up for the Harbour Quays
This is a guest post from Wellington-based Kasey McDonnell, which originally appeared on their blog threesixtysix,. It is republished here with kind permission. Boy am I horny for bus lanes.
Splash paint on a road, reserve it for buses that carry 70 people each, and you’ve instantly improved public transport.…
Let’s go there now: the future of our urban villages
This is a guest post by David Slack, who has kindly shared it from his excellent long-running newsletter ‘More Than a Feilding’, for the benefit of Greater Auckland readers. (Header image and accompanying photos also by David Slack.) If the only line Joni Mitchell had ever written was about paving paradise and putting up a parking lot, she’d have left words for the ages.…
Congestion Charging: Location Options
New York is the most recent city to implement congestion pricing and it’s already (and predictably) been a success. Will Auckland be the next city to introduce it?
Legislation to introduce “time of use charging” (congestion pricing) is currently making its way through Parliament, with the government intending to pass it before the end of the year.…
Weekly Roundup 18-July-2025
It’s Friday again so here’s some of the things that caught our attention this week. This Week in Greater Auckland On Monday Connor looked at the new plans for the streets around the Mercury Lane entrance to Karanga-a-Hape station
For Tuesday we had another guest post from Brendon Harre, looking at transport in Christchurch pre the 1930s
On Wednesday Patrick covered the recently released report looking at the State of the City.…
The State of It
Yesterday I went to the launch of the Committee for Auckland’s third The State of The City launch. It’s great they are doing this work, and the event was very interesting. You can read the report itself here.
There has been a lot of media coverage since, some of which you’ve no doubt seen, ranging from the sensationalist (Stuff) to the bored and dismissive (Auckland Now).…
Christchurch Transport Milestones Pre 1930’s
This is a guest post by Brendon Harre. It’s the second part of a post about Christchurch, it’s history, and what needs to change to fix it’s transport woes and this part has been published on Brendon’s medium.
You can read part one here.…
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