The Roads and Streets Framework – Under Review Before It Gets Going
This is a guest post from reader Heidi O’Callahan
If Auckland is to reach its full potential, roads and streets need to perform beyond the traditional norm of moving traffic and providing access for vehicles to local destinations.
Auckland Transport does some great work.…
51 Comments Hop out of the way of that falling truck, honey
This is a guest post by reader Heidi O’Callahan
On Thursday 8th March this year, a truck heading east up Great North Rd from Waterview failed to negotiate the right-turn corner into Carrington Rd, at the heart of the Pt Chevalier Town Centre.…
AT’s (lack of) Achievement of Carbon Emission and Fuel Usage Targets
This is a guest post from reader Takaite
Background
As 40% of Auckland’s carbon emissions are due to transport, if Auckland is to contribute its share to NZ’s carbon reduction targets this is an area where reductions have to be made.…
Riding the Central New Network
This is a guest post from reader and friend of the blog, Shan L, He has also written about his new network experiences for the South, West and East when those networks rolled out.
On Sunday 8 July the new network for went live for central Auckland.…
Guest Post: Co-Housing Part Three
This is a guest post by Biddy Livesey who is a housing policy analyst, researcher, and future resident of Cohaus.
Post Three – Planning for collective housing development: Consenting Cohaus
In this third post on cohousing, we consider how cohousing is supported through the Auckland Unitary Plan, and the specific planning challenge for innovative collective housing development in the inner suburbs of Auckland. …
Transit Oriented Developments and some of the underlying factors influencing them
This guest post is brought to you by Aaron Rodrigues. He is a consultant within Stantec’s Transport Planning and Future Mobility practice and his interests include transport and urban development strategy, integrated land use and transport planning, and new mobility. Additionally he recently completed his post graduate studies in Transport at Imperial College London where his research focused on Transit Oriented Developments, specifically concerning the factors influencing such developments in Auckland.…
Guest Post: Light Rail for the Isthmus… with room for bikes!
This is a Guest Post from Bike Auckland’s Max. It first appeared here and is reproduced with permission.
Light Rail (LRT) across the isthmus and to the airport is a hot topic, and Bike Auckland supported it in principle in our recent submission on the Regional Long Term Plan… with one clear caveat:
Bikeways must be included in LRT projects, both to and along the future routes.…
Guest Post: Service Disruption Prevention – treat it as a science
This is a guest post from reader Rob Mayo. It first appeared here.
Too often, as designers and operators of public transport infrastructure and services, we ignore the roles that psychology and behavioural science play to make the PT environment human-centered and thereby attractive to people.…
Should I leave now? We look at Auckland Traffic Data
This post originally appeared on the site of Sandfield and is by Mustafa Hasanbulli. Sandfield are the wonderful team who developed and maintain the blog for us.
Auckland traffic has always been a hot topic in NZ. There are regular news articles about the woes of Auckland drivers as they face increasingly congested motorways, and it’s always a popular election issue.…
Guest Post: Cycling to Freedom
This is a guest post from Lucy, a secondary school student from Carmel College
“For men, the bicycle, in the beginning was merely a new toy, another machine added to the long list of devices they already knew in their work and play.…
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