Flashback Saturday: Light rail to the sea
Every weekend we dig into the archives. This post by Matt was originally published in June 2016.
Takapuna is considered one of Auckland’s key metropolitan centres – which the Auckland Plan describes as:
Metropolitan centres, such as Takapuna and Manukau, will accommodate a large proportion of the city’s future residential, retail and employment growth.…
17 Comments Flashback Saturday – City size, variety, and consumer surplus
Every weekend we dig into the archives. This post by Peter was originally published in June 2016.
In the 1990s, in the early years of the information technology revolution, economist Robert Solow famously commented that “you can see the computer age everywhere but in the productivity statistics.” Two decades on, that still rings true.…
Flashback Sunday – Should buses have right of way?
Every weekend we dig into the archives. This post by Matt was originally published in June 2016.
Sometimes it’s little things that can have a big impact on public transport and a bus full of people, stuck in bus stop because cars won’t let the bus out is a great example of one of those little things.…
Flashback Saturday: Large Intersections
Every weekend we dig into the archives. This post by Peter was originally published in June 2015.
Last week, I took a high-level look at the opportunity cost associated with Auckland’s car-centric transport system. Simply put, cars use up lots of land, and public transport, walking, and cycling don’t.…
Flashback Saturday: The Victoria St Linear Park: Why it is vital, but not really a park.
Every weekend we dig into the archives. This post by Patrick was originally published in October 2016.
This is one of a series of posts I intend to do about about the city streetscape we ought to be able to expect as a result of the CRL rebuild.…
Flashback Saturday: Removing the RUB won’t necessarily work as planned
Every weekend we dig into the archives. This post by Matt was originally published in May 2016.
Yesterday Phil Twyford announced that it would be Labour’s policy to abolish Auckland’s Rural Urban Boundary (RUB), as part of a policy to improve housing affordability.…
Seville’s Bike Lane Network
Seville, in Spain, have built an impressive network of bike lanes remarkably quickly in recent years. Streetfilms made a great video that explains how this was done: Some thing that really stand out are: The speed of progress. The first 80 kilometres of lanes were put in place in a mere 18 months.…
Flashback Saturday: The strange side effects of parking subsidies
Every weekend we dig into the archives. This post by Peter was originally published in May 2016.
Parking policies are frequently bizarre. Parking is, after all, a private good – it is both rivalrous (two cars can’t park in the same space at the same time) and excludable (if you don’t want someone parking in your space, you can keep them out).…
Flashback Sunday: Additional Harbour Crossing ill-considered and over-rushed
Every weekend we dig into the archives. This post by Patrick was originally published in May 2016.
We are increasingly concerned that Auckland is in the middle of very poor process where by far the nation’s biggest ever infrastructure project is being forced along and at ill-considered speed without anything like the level of public participation nor detailed analysis that it should have.…
Flashback Saturday – Is less congestion actually a good thing?
Every weekend we dig into the archives. This post by Matt was originally published in July 2014.
It almost goes without saying that congestion is a terrible thing, so bad that it justifies the spending of massive amounts of public money as well as the impact on our cities from widening and building new transport infrastructure to rid ourselves – or at least reduce the level of – this terrible thing that is congestion.…
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