Guest Post: A interim option for an Auckland Harbour Bridge footpath and cycleway?
This post was first published by Nicolas Reid on his Linked In page.
With recent news describing plans for the Northern Path (aka Skypath) as “dead in the water”, the time seems right to be thinking creatively about how we can move pedestrians and cyclists across the Waitemata.…
88 Comments Guest Post: Why bike lanes need to be designed for women
A guest post by Marita Hunt
A handful of recent articles on cycling, gender and the climate demonstrate the value of centralising women when designing cycling infrastructure.
In February, a paper called Pedalling Towards Equity: Exploring Women’s Cycling in a New Zealand City by Marie Russell, Cheryl Davies, Kirsty Wild and Caroline Shaw was published in the Journal of Transport Geography.…
What if Landlords Built Hot New Things?
This is a guest post from reader Brendon Harré. It was originally posted on his Medium blog.
“We shape our buildings; thereafter, they shape us” – Winston Churchill Renting in New Zealand is bad — is how I have written about housing in the last few months.…
Guest Post: School Strike 4 Climate Demands For Auckland Council
This is a Guest Post by Jack Barlow, 16, a year-13 student at Western Springs College and spokesperson for School Strike 4 Climate Auckland.
As Greater Auckland have highlighted in many recent posts, there is a growing gap between the high level goals we have to reduce emissions and the more concrete plans and budgets to achieve those goals.…
Better Renting through New Housing Models
This is a guest post by Meredith Dale and Greer O’Donnell, The Urban Advisory.
Housing in New Zealand generally falls into one of three tenure groups: home ownership, private rental or social housing, with a limited amount of community housing (Figure 1).…
Cut and cover spaghetti junction?
This is a guest post from Nick R
The great irony of urban motorways is that they use up huge amounts of the very thing they are intended to access: land.
All surface transport infrastructure naturally consumes land. However, while a street, busway or railway fits in a corridor 10 to 20m wide, even a small motorway corridor is at least five times as wide.…
Guest Post: Michael Wood, Minister of Transport
As the title suggests, this is a guest post from new Minister of Transport, Michael Wood
Firstly I’d like to thank Greater Auckland for the warm welcome when I was appointed Transport Minister. Transport has been a passion of mine even before I was given the portfolio as a member of the Puketāpapa Local Board.…
A better Mission Bay for everyone (is now possible)
This is a cross post from our friends at Bike Auckland
After some underwhelming plans for St Heliers recently, AT looks to be heading in a better direction with Mission Bay. Read on below for the background, the bits we like, and our ideas to make it even better – then help us by adding your voice in support with our handy submission guide!…
The Waterview Path: Resilient Design in the context of Covid-19 Lockdown
This is a guest post from reader Miriam
As someone who normally walks an hour into work every day, I made it a goal to reach my 10,000 daily steps during the nationwide Level Four lockdown. I was keen on maintaining my sanity while following instructions to ‘stay at home’.…
2018 Census Commuting Data
This is a guest post from Werner Pretorius
In a city planning context, it’s impossible to be everywhere all the time. Which is why we use data – to help us see the unseen, to fill the gaps in our knowledge.…
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