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.…
25 Comments 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.…
Weekly Roundup 2-May-2025
Wow we’re in May already and with ANZAC day last Friday we skipped the round up so here’s a bumper crop of the things that have caught our attention over the last two weeks. The last few weeks in Greater Auckland On Wednesday last week we ran a guest post from Darren Davis on public transport fares in Queensland.…
Weekly Roundup 17-April-2025
An early roundup this week, on account of the long weekend ahead. Watch out for the wind out there! This week in Greater Auckland On Monday we shared an open letter to Auckland Transport about Project K (further to the last-minute watering down of designs we covered last week, and AT’s reply which we shared in last week’s roundup.)…
Weekly Roundup 11-April-2025
Another Friday, another roundup. Autumn is starting to set in, certainly getting darker earlier but we hope you enjoy some of the stories we found interesting this week. This week in Greater Auckland On Tuesday we ran a guest post from the wonderful Darren Davis about what’s happening with KiwiRail.…
Weekly Roundup 04-April-2025
On a very wet Friday, we hope you have somewhere nice and warm and dry to sit and catch up on our roundup of some of this week’s top stories in transport and urbanism.
The header image shows Northcote Intermediate Students strolling across the Te Ara Awataha Greenway Bridge in Northcote, courtesy of Auckland Council via Our Auckland.…
The Government accidentally added us to their group chat
In events eerily similar to what happened in the USA last week, Greater Auckland was recently accidentally added to a group chat between government ministers on the topic of transport.
We have no idea how it happened, but luckily we managed to transcribe most of what transpired.…
Weekly Roundup 28-March-2025
Today’s another Friday, and we are almost at the end of March. Here’s another roundup of stories that caught our eye this week. This week in Greater Auckland On Tuesday, Connor pointed out that people tend to like people-friendly cities.
On Wednesday, Matt looked at the stadium proposals, and their level of feasibility.…
Weekly Roundup 21-March-2025
Another Friday, hope everyone’s enjoyed their week as we head toward the autumn equinox. Here’s another roundup of stories that caught our eye on the subject of cities and what makes them even better. This week in Greater Auckland On Monday, Connor took a look at how Auckland Transport has failed on Mercury Lane – and the lessons that should be learned.…
Pressure grows for commonsense correction on safe local speeds
Concern is growing about the wide-ranging local repercussions of the new Setting of Speed Limits rule, rewritten in 2024 by former transport minister Simeon Brown. In particular, there are growing fears about what this means for children.
A key paradox of the new rule is that NZTA-controlled roads have the option to keep existing speeds, where they are working and have strong community support, or where land-use has changed.…
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