AT directors at risk?
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.…
Comment Pop the Hood: Are Speed Limit Reversals Taking Us in the Wrong Direction?
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.…
Weekly Roundup 16-May-2025
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.…
Behind the curtain of AT’s Project K switcheroo
On Tuesday this week I watched AT present to the Waitematā Local Board about the Karanga-a-Hape Station precinct integration project (otherwise known as Project K).
The same day, I received information in response to my LGOIMA request for documents about the last-minute decision to drastically change the project in March & April of this year, as well as an early return yesterday of documents regarding resolutions from the Traffic Control Committee.…
Holding out for a Road Safety Hero
This is a guest post by Christina Robertson, who is a member of the Albert-Eden Local Board. The views presented here are her own.
The header image shows an example of a short, dead-end street in the Albert-Eden area that is set to return to 50km/h as a result of AT’s unusually broad reading of the Speed Rule.…
Why it takes a city to save a village, and vice versa
This guest post by Dr Stuart Donovan looks at how strengthening the urban core can turn liabilities into assets. The header image of Rangiwhakaoma is by the author. I recently travelled to the remarkably picturesque coastal settlement known as Rangiwhakaoma (Castlepoint), which translates loosely to “where the sky runs”.…
Weekly Roundup 9-May-2025
It’s another wet Friday so here are a few stories to read while you (hopefully) avoid the rain. This Week in Greater Auckland On Monday, Matt covered Auckland Transport’s latest plans for speeding up buses on Dominion Rd.
For Wednesday, Matt looked at what is happening with ridership on our PT network.…
Removing Level Crossings at Three Train Stations
A few months ago the government announced it would contribute $200 million towards level crossing removal in Takanini and at a few stations so that the Southern and Eastern lines north of Papakura would be fully grade separated. This enables us to make better use of the City Rail Link in the future.…
Public Transport Ridership for the start of 2025
It’s been a few months since we last covered public transport usage and we’ve passed through March Madness so it’s time to have a look at how our PT system is performing again.
First up, at a monthly level we can see that there’s been a mixed start to the year which suggests that the post-COVID recovery appears to have stalled.…
Small fixes to help improve Dominion Rd
Making public transport faster and more reliable is some of the key ways to get more people to use it, meaning more people can move around the city. Yet far too often we rely on big projects to deliver these improvements. …
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