Weekly Roundup 28-November-2025
Hope everyone enjoyed the sun this week. Here’s some stories on urbanism that caught our eye! This Week in Greater Auckland On Monday, Matt looked at the Public Transport ridership stats for 2025.
On Wednesday, Connor examined the conflicting views of the Mayor on the City Centre.…
40 Comments New Zealand is walking again, but our streets aren’t keeping up
This is a guest post by Tim Jones, President of Living Streets Aotearoa. By profession, Tim is a writer, editor and anthologist, and his latest book is the poetry collection Dracula in the Colonies. New Zealanders are choosing to walk more and drive less as a way to get around, according to recent research released by the New Zealand Transport Agency Waka Kotahi.…
Wayne Brown vs Wayne Brown
Recently, under its new Mayor Andrew Little, Wellington City Council voted to delay the Golden Mile street project for yet another review.
This is despite the Golden Mile being well supported in (repeated) consultations, with a benefit cost ratio of 5.8, and with millions of dollars of central government funding sitting there ready to use – plus the obvious fact that this part of Wellington really really needs the spruce-up.…
2025 Public Transport Ridership Update
We’re rapidly approaching the end of the year and it’s been a while since we last looked at what was happened with public transport ridership, so it’s time to take a look again.
First up, data for October suggests that at a monthly level, we can see we’re tracking almost identically to last year.…
Weekly Roundup 21-November-2025
Another week down and another weekly roundup on all things cities. Can you believe it’s almost summer? This Week in Greater Auckland On Monday, Matt delved into all the various consultations Auckland Transport is currently running after the local election.
On Wednesday, we had a guest post from the esteemed Darren Davis on The frequentisation of public transport in Tāmaki Makaurau
On Thursday, Matt took a look at the Minister of Transport’s admission of the unaffordable reality of the RoNS programme.…
Minister admits RoNS reality is biting – and hard
“Whatever the problem, build another road” has been a hallmark of policy from the current government. And we’ve long suggested that is simply not affordable or practical – including just a month ago, when the latest costs were released for a bunch of the government’s flagship Roads of National Significance (RoNS) programme.…
The frequentisation of Tāmaki Makaurau
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. The bad old days To get a full appreciation of just how big a transformation Auckland’s bus network has undergone, you have to look back to the bad old days.…
ATs 2025 Consultation Season
It’s consultation season again at Auckland Transport – where AT pump out a bunch of consultations just before the Christmas period. This gives teams work to do over the summer months and many of these have probably been held up waiting for the election period to be over.…
Weekly Roundup 14-November-2025
Here’s a bunch of stuff that caught our eye this week, during all the hot and humid weather. This Week in Greater Auckland On Tuesday Matt explored what progress has been made on the North Western Busway.
On Wednesday, Patrick took a look at potential improvements to increase accessibility to the Auckland Museum from the City Centre.…
Road Policing Performance
The Police have been in the news a bit recently and for the wrong reasons. One of those was a few weeks ago where it was revealed that there were issues with breath testing:
More than 100 police officers are under investigation after 30,000 alcohol breath tests were “falsely or erroneously recorded”, RNZ can reveal.…
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