Weekly Roundup 5-December-2025
Ho ho how is it December already?! Welcome to the end of another week, and another roundup of stories that caught our eye in the realm of transport, urbanism, and opportunities to make our little city that little bit greater…
This week’s header image (taken by Jolisa) shows the city after Wednesday’s storm, as seen from Coyle Park, in a Christmassy colour scheme.…
23 Comments Throwback Thursday: CRL costs money but also provides huge benefits
With the cost (and the value) of CRL in the news recently, we’ve gone back and dug up this post from Matt a few years ago in 2023 on what CRL brings. The City Rail Link has been in the headlines a bit recently so I thought I’d look at some of them.…
Light Rail Lives On?
Earlier this year Te Waihanga, the New Zealand Infrastructure Commission, invited submissions for Round 2 of its Infrastructure Priorities Programme (IPP), looking to help identify proposals and projects that: are nationally important
will meet New Zealand’s strategic objectives
represent good value for money
and can be delivered.…
Cycleways are good for everyone
The following is an op-ed I wrote which ran in The Post on November 20th. On a sunny winter day in June, I attended “Party on the Path”, celebrating the opening of the Point Chevalier to Westmere project. Thousands of people blissfully wheeled and walked the three-kilometre route, enjoying the festivities.…
CRL delayed till second half of 2026
While Melbourne’s Metro Tunnel officially opened yesterday, our own rail tunnel just got a little further away.
For some time now, it has been said that the City Rail Link (CRL) will open sometime in 2026, and there was a lot of hope that it could be early in 2026 given we’re already seeing Auckland Transport running timetable testing and that the construction part of the project was due for completion now.…
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.…
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.…
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