Weekly Roundup 7-February-2025

It’s been an eventful week as always, so here’s a few things that we have found interesting. We also hope everyone had a happy and relaxing Waitangi Day! This week in Greater Auckland We’re still running on summer time, but provided two chewy posts: On Tuesday, a guest post by Nicolas Reid discussed the use of gondolas for mass transit.…
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Weekly Roundup 24-January-2025

It’s Friday and we’ve got Auckland Anniversary weekend ahead of us so we’ve pulled together a bumper crop of things that caught our attention this week. This post, like all our work, is brought to you by a largely volunteer crew and made possible by generous donations from our readers and fans.…
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Weekly Roundup 10-January-2025

Welcome back to our weekly roundup. We hope you had a good break (if you had one). Here’s a few of the stories that caught our attention over the last few weeks. This holiday period on Greater Auckland Since our last roundup we’ve: Taken a look back at the key things that happened in 2024 Covered some of important things due to happen in 2025 The Minister’s view on Auckland Stuff has an interview with Minister for Auckland and Minister of Transport, Simeon Brown: “We’ve delivered a lot for Auckland and it’s certainly been our focus as a Government,” Simeon Brown says in an interview with Stuff at his electorate office in Pakuranga.…
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Weekly Roundup 06-December-2024

It’s another Friday and it has been a big week in Auckland. We hope everyone’s excited to be in the final stretch of the year! Here’s some of the stories that have caught our attention this week. This post, like all our work, is brought to you by a largely volunteer crew and made possible by generous donations from our readers and fans.…
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Weekly Roundup 29-November-2024

It’s another Friday and we’re almost in the final month of the year and the Pohutukawa’s are starting to blossom. Here’s some of the stories that have caught our attention this week. This post, like all our work, is brought to you by a largely volunteer crew and made possible by generous donations from our readers and fans.…
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Throwback Thursday: Will “Auckland Transport” Survive?

With Auckland Transport’s future up in the air under Mayor Wayne Brown’s proposed CCO reform, we’ve dug way back into the archives, to unearth this post originally published in March 2010. As you’ll see, many of the debates that were being had when AT was first proposed continue to resonate nearly 15 years later… It has been a particularly interesting last few days for the plans going on to create the Auckland Super-City in November this year [2010].…
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