Managing on-street parking for local benefit
This guest post by Malcolm McCracken originally appeared on his blog Better Things Are Possible, and is republished here by kind permission.
The case for Parking Benefit Districts: managing on-street parking for local benefit
Parking is often the centre of debate in our cities; particularly on-street car parks, who gets to use them and how we manage them.…
24 Comments Postcard from Sydney: Southwest and City Metro extension
This is a guest post from Sydney reader Nik Clement After 2 years in Auckland I moved back to Sydney just over a year ago. While in Auckland, I went to the opening of Puhinui station and used it a fair bit, living in Manukau Central and being able to walk to Puhinui station, more often taking the Airport Link to meet up with both Southern Line, Eastern Line or Southern Express Rail buses, during periods of track maintenance, which happened frequently.…
Could outdoor dining revitalise Queen Street?
This is a guest post by Ben van Bruggen of The Urban Room,.An earlier version of this post appeared on LinkedIn. All images are by Ben. Have you noticed that there’s almost nowhere on Queen Street that invites you to stop, sit outside and enjoy a coffee, let alone a meal?…
What if we freed up our streets, again?
This guest post is by Tommy de Silva, a local rangatahi and freelance writer who is passionate about making the urban fabric of Tāmaki Makaurau-Auckland more people-focused and sustainable. New Zealand’s March-April 2020 Level 4 Covid response (aka “lockdown”) was somehow both the best and worst six weeks of my life.…
Container trucks on local streets: why take the risk?
This is a guest post by Charmaine Vaughan, who came to transport advocacy via her local Residents Association and a comms role at Bike Auckland. Her enthusiasm to make local streets safer for all is shared by her son Dylan Vaughan, a budding “urban nerd” who provided much of the research for this post.…
Neurodiversity in urbanism
This is a guest post by Shaun Baker. It originally appeared on his blog Multimodal Adventures and is shared here by kind permission. A necessary component of creating an inclusive and equitable city is accessibility. Designing our cities with accessibility in mind is important so everyone, particularly our disabled communities, can access and thrive in our built environments without experiencing any barriers.…
In praise of crosstown buses: refreshing the OuterLink
Waiting for an orange OuterLink bus can feel like the old saying: you wait ages for a bus, and then three come along at once. The solution, which will be implemented as part of Auckland’s newest Regional Public Transport Plan (RPTP), is to unknot the loop in order to give the route a reliable beginning and an endpoint.
Let your city flourish: mixing it up with mixed-use
This is a guest post by Malcolm McCracken. It previously appeared on his blog Better Things Are Possible and is shared by kind permission. Do you get excited when a new business comes to your neighbourhood? Perhaps it’s a new coffee shop, a takeaway restaurant, a dairy (“convenience store”, for international readers), a flower shop or a bar.…
Auckland’s Frequent Transit Network hits 40 routes
… now we need to tell people about it! This guest post by Pete Moth (Head of PT development, Auckland Transport) originally appeared on LinkedIn, and is republished here with kind permission. Cast your mind back to late 2016.
Auckland has just electrified its rail network, and the 2024 Olympics will shortly be announced as being hosted by Paris.…
Three lessons for Auckland from Transport for London
This is a guest post by Charlotte Billing. Charlotte is a strategist and Co-Director of Place Creative, and is currently researching how public consultation and narrative impact decision-making in New Zealand.
The header image is an art collaboration between Andrew Hudson and Transport for London, via the artist’s Instagram.…
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