Flashback Sunday: How rail was saved in Auckland
Every weekend we dig into the archives. This post by Matt was originally published in April 2014.
Next Monday will be a historic day for transport in Auckland as for the first time the city will have electric trains carrying fare paying passengers.…
14 Comments Flashback Sunday: Auckland Unbound
Every weekend we dig into the archives. This post by Patrick was originally published in December 2014.
Last month I was asked to write an article for Metro Magazine on transport in Auckland, it ran in the December issue and now can be seen on Metro’s site here.…
Next Steps for Greater Auckland
We have had an amazingly successful 12 months here at Greater Auckland. Just over a year ago we launched our rebranded site, which still looks fantastic. We continue to be grateful to everyone who made our redesign possible, particularly Sandfield for the website and to Cornelius from Frontier for the design.…
Flashback Saturday: “The end of Auckland’s old growth model”
Every Saturday we dig into the archives for an interesting read. This post was originally published in May 2016.
The New Zealand Council for Infrastructure Development’s public shark-jumping exercise the other week got me thinking. While their flagship policy of a new megabillion eastern tunnel project is a bit mad, their report does a reasonable job of diagnosing one of the core problems facing Auckland.…
Flashback Monday: Arguing for sprawl with “strategic misrepresentations”
We normally have “flashback” posts on Saturdays, but as it’s a public holiday here’s another treat from the archives. This post by Peter Nunns was published in December 2014.
A number of recent posts have taken a look at some of the “strategic misrepresentations” that people have used to argue for a sprawled-out, roads-focused Auckland.…
Auckland to trial Shared Mobility Macrotransit
NZTA and the Ministry of Transport have announced a region wide pilot of a revolutionary new transport concept known as Shared Mobility Macrotransit.
The new system, known as ShaMM, integrates big data and predictive network optimisation to deliver a network of transit connectivity operating a regionwide web of trunk and node mobility services.…
Flashback Saturday: The linear city and other science fictions
This post by Peter Nunns was first published in March 2016
Last week, urban designer lecturers Dushko Bogunovich and Matthew Bradbury published an article on their vision for transforming Auckland into a “linear city”:
Instead, we suggest a linear, city-region that follows the opportunities and respects the constraints in the landscape.…
Flashback Saturday: Will the proposed Waitemata Harbour Crossing be good for drivers?
This post was first published by Patrick in January 2016.
There are many reasons to be concerned about the plan to add more road lanes across Auckland’s Waitemata Harbour: from the extreme cost of building such big tunnels and interchanges [$5-$6 billion and four times as much as just building rail tunnels], to the undesirable flooding of city streets and North Shore local roads with even more cars, to the increase in air pollution and carbon emission this will create, the loss of valuable city land to expanded on and off ramps and parking structures, to the impact on the harbour of exhaust stacks and a supersized motorway on the Shore, to the pressure this will put on the rest of the motorway system particularly through the narrow throat of Spaghetti Junction.…
Flashback Saturday – The map and the territory: Four Aucklands
This post was originally published in November 2014
Like any city, Auckland is the product of a mix of historical accidents, perverse consequences, failed dreams, and unfinished visions. Some plans succeed (often with unexpected results), while others fail, leaving nothing behind but some maps and occasionally a few hulking piles of cement.…
Flashback – EMU production photos
This post was originally published 5 years ago, in March 2013.
The first of what I’m sure will be our superb new electric trains is under construction in Spain. The body shell for the first of the carriages has been completed and have already taken a trip to the paint shop to get its colours with details like logo added later in the process.…
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