Author: Greater Auckland

Hope you’ve had a great week. Here’s our roundup of interesting stories. The week in Greater Auckland posts Monday’s post was a guest post by Chris Lange, about his street’s successful play streets events and subsequent confusing follow-up by AT On Tuesday, Matt wrote about the outcomes of Auckland Light Rail’s 6-month investigation phase On Wednesday we had a guest post by Paul Callister and Robert McLachlan about the immense amount of road construction in the Kāpiti Coast and Horowhenua, and what that means for the region’s emissions Thursday’s post, again from Matt, covered the latest designs for Queen Street Bus stop names The names of bus stops are changing to make it easier for many to navigate.…

Kia ora, hope our Auckland readers are hanging in there – halfway through week five! The week in Greater Auckland In case you missed it, here’s what we published this week: Monday’s post was by John Polkinghorne, discussing why urbanism is important and relevant to everyone.…

Tēnā koutou, hope you’ve all had a great week. While the rest of Aotearoa has gone to level 2, here in Auckland we’re still in one of the world’s strictest lockdowns (but secretly still enjoying the low-traffic bike rides). Here’s our roundup for the week.…

Kua tae mai a Mahuru – September has arrived, Auckland is still in Lockdown, and we’re happy to see some sunny weather arrive in time for our weekend lockdown walks, scoots and bike rides. Meanwhile, here’s our roundup of transport news and good reads this week.…

Header image via twitter user @wildbaynz Ata mārie everyone. After a week and a half in lockdown you’re probably sick of the internet, but just in case you’re not, here’s our roundup of transport and urbanism reads for the week. City Rail Link August footage This drone footage of the Mt Eden station area was taken just before work ceased because of the level 4 lockdown.…

Kia ora koutou kātoa (that’s our best Ashley Bloomfield impression), we’re settling into Level 4 life once more, and hope you’re going OK. It’s been quite a week all around the motu, with good news and not-so-good news. It was encouraging to hear at the 1pm briefing yesterday that there is a likely link between the current community cases and a recent MIQ case.…

Header image: Discourses of Climate Delay, by Leonard Chemineau Welcome to the middle of Hereturikōkā (August), and here’s our weekly roundup. This week’s roundup has been written in the shadow of the IPCC report that came out on Monday night, and the ways in which we are and are not responding to its challenge.…

Header image credit – Alec Tang Here’s our wrap-up for the week. Higher emissions on the Waikato Expressway Waka Kotahi plan to increase the speed limit on the Waikato expressway between Hampton Downs and Tamahere to 110km/h once the Hamilton bypass is completed in mid-2022.…

Kia ora, it’s the end of July and here’s our weekly roundup. Central Interceptor Progress Today, a ceremony will launch the new Tunnel Boring Machine for the Central Interceptor. Watercare’s website shows: On Friday 30 July, our 190-metre Tunnel Boring Machine (TBM) Hiwa-i-te-Rangi will be launched at our Māngere site and head north digging a supersized wastewater tunnel that will help prevent wet weather overflows and clean up central Auckland beaches.…