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.…
33 Comments 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.…
Guest Post: Co-Housing Part Two
This is a guest post by Biddy Livesey who is a housing policy analyst, researcher, and future resident of Cohaus. Post Two – Collective Housing Development in Auckland: Cohaus
In the last post, we discussed the concept of cohousing, and the potential contribution of collective housing development to increasing affordable, high-quality and unique housing in cities such as Auckland.…
Guest Post: Co-Housing Part One
This is a guest post by Biddy Livesey who is a housing policy analyst, researcher, and future resident of Cohaus. Part One: Introduction to collective housing development: Cohousing
Our cities are changing. The cost of land is increasing, the way we move around is evolving, and our lives are different to the lives our parents and grandparents led.…
Guest Post: A Letter to Shane Ellison – CEO of Auckland Transport
This is a Guest Post by Lance Wiggs. It first appeared here and is republished with permission.
Dear Shane
You’ve begun your role as the Chief Executive Officer of Auckland Transport at a moment of crisis, with hundreds of Auckland families coping with the death of their loved ones on the city’s roads every year.…
AT’s Car Park Buildings – The Fiasco of the Proposed Takapuna Gasometer Car Park?
This is another guest post from reader taka-ite. You can read his first one on Manukau’s Ronwood Ave carpark here.
The Writer
The writer has been a resident of Takapuna for about eight years. He is a fervent proponent of intensification and is not worried that some of it might occur in his backyard.…
Kiwirail’s de-electrification decision questioned again
This is a guest post from Dr Roger Blakeley, former Secretary for the Environment; Bob Norman, former Commissioner of Works; Alex Gray, professional civil engineer and Senior Project Manager; and Keith Flinders, Electrical Services Consultant.
On 10 May 2018, Radio NZ reported that, in a briefing to Ministers on 21 March 2018, KiwiRail said that it had received no direction from the Government to cease the de-electrification programme on the NIMT and is continuing its work to decommission the electric locomotives fleet by 31 March 2019.…
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