Improving Local Government Representation in New Zealand
This is a guest post by Malcolm McCracken. It previously appeared on his blog Better Things Are Possible and is shared by kind permission. Local government elections in New Zealand face persistent challenges with low voter turnout and a shortage of candidates. …
33 Comments Te Huia to Tauranga?
This is a guest post by Darren Davis. It originally appeared on his excellent blog, Adventures in Transitland, which we encourage you to check out. It is shared by kind permission. Tauranga – the weakest leg of the Golden Triangle
Aotearoa is a top-heavy country.…
This community chooses 30km/h
This is a guest post by Charmaine Vaughan, Secretary of the Meadowbank St Johns Residents’ Association, about how her community took the initiative in the face of recent mandatory speed raises.Â
In Meadowbank on a sunny Saturday afternoon not so long ago, the streets were filled with the sounds of birds singing and kids out and about by themselves.…
How to fill Council’s climate leadership vacuum
This is a guest post by Heidi O’Callahan, about one way to improve the sorry state of climate leadership in Auckland.
For a frank and fair assessment of where Auckland is at, have a read of the Committee for Auckland’s recent report The State of the City, as covered by Patrick here.…
Christchurch’s mass-transit future: How long will the city wait and what will it look like?
This is a guest post by Brendon Harre. It’s the fourth and final part in a series about Christchurch, it’s history, and what needs to change to fix it’s transport woes and this part has been published on Brendon’s medium.
You can read part one here, part two here, and part three here.…
Christchurch’s transport history: 1930’s to present
This is a guest post by Brendon Harre. It’s the third part of a post about Christchurch, it’s history, and what needs to change to fix it’s transport woes and this part has been published on Brendon’s medium.
You can read part one here and part two here.…
Letter from Wellington: a glow up for the Harbour Quays
This is a guest post from Wellington-based Kasey McDonnell, which originally appeared on their blog threesixtysix,. It is republished here with kind permission. Boy am I horny for bus lanes.
Splash paint on a road, reserve it for buses that carry 70 people each, and you’ve instantly improved public transport.…
Let’s go there now: the future of our urban villages
This is a guest post by David Slack, who has kindly shared it from his excellent long-running newsletter ‘More Than a Feilding’, for the benefit of Greater Auckland readers. (Header image and accompanying photos also by David Slack.) If the only line Joni Mitchell had ever written was about paving paradise and putting up a parking lot, she’d have left words for the ages.…
Weekly Roundup 18-July-2025
It’s Friday again so here’s some of the things that caught our attention this week. This Week in Greater Auckland On Monday Connor looked at the new plans for the streets around the Mercury Lane entrance to Karanga-a-Hape station
For Tuesday we had another guest post from Brendon Harre, looking at transport in Christchurch pre the 1930s
On Wednesday Patrick covered the recently released report looking at the State of the City.…
Christchurch Transport Milestones Pre 1930’s
This is a guest post by Brendon Harre. It’s the second part of a post about Christchurch, it’s history, and what needs to change to fix it’s transport woes and this part has been published on Brendon’s medium.
You can read part one here.…
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