Bike to the Future 2.0 tomorrow
This is a guest post from Leroy Beckett, Auckland Director of Generation Zero
Join us on a bike ride tomorrow to make it clear to politicians, the council and disgruntled protesters that we support (and need!) safe biking infrastructure in Grey Lynn and across Auckland.…
7 Comments Should NZ develop a transport policy to reduce child poverty?
This is a guest post from reader Anna
Should NZ develop a transport policy to reduce child poverty?
When I had kids at two separate schools, plus one at daycare, transport ruled my life. Despite living on the Auckland isthmus with good public transport, the task of getting the kids safety off for the day and both of us to work was only just possible.…
Tauranga’s $120M ‘Legacy’ motorway project
Greetings again from Greater Tauranga. This is our second post. You can read our first post here which gives an overview of the complex transport system in our region.
This post is about the Bayfair to Baypark (B2B) project, the story of what happens when a road of national significance (RoNS) meets the edge of a growing city.…
Downsizing Auckland’s Unitary Plan
This is a guest post from reader Brendon Harré. It was originally posted on his Medium blog.
Auckland in 2016 agreed on a new zoning plan for the city called the Unitary Plan. It was a hard fought battle of competing interests.…
Why don’t we have boomtowns anymore?
This is a guest post from reader Brendon Harré. It was originally posted on his Medium blog. California attracted tens of thousands of gold prospectors during the Gold Rush of 1849. San Francisco’s population quadrupled in size as a result – and the state continued to grow rapidly for almost a century.…
To reduce road fatalities, lower speeds have to be part of the solution
This is a guest post from Glen Koorey. He is a senior traffic engineer and transportation planner with ViaStrada Ltd in Christchurch. He specialises in road safety and sustainable transport, with a particular focus on speed management.
Last September, I was holidaying in Victoria, Australia, driving around the Great Ocean Road.…
Zoning politics for the many, not the few
This is a guest post from reader Brendon Harré. It was originally posted on his Medium blog.
Part one: The background picture
Housing exists in a framework of rules and infrastructure provision. Increasingly around the world this framework is being challenged, as the perception has developed that urban development frameworks are only benefiting the few and are detrimental to both the poor and the middle class.…
Auckland’s Urban Freshwater – our historic relationship
This is a guest post from Ed Clayton
This is the first post of a three-part series exploring the relationships between freshwater and transport in Auckland. The aim of the combined series is to demonstrate how Auckland could seize the opportunity to build resilient water infrastructure at the same time as addressing transport issues, and to provoke discussion.…
Riding the Eastern New Network
This is a guest post from reader and friend of the blog, Shan L
With Sunday being the launch of the New Network for the East, together with Harriet I yet again decided to get on a few buses and trains to find out how well it was working.…
Tauranga’s transport schemozzle
Greetings from Greater Tauranga. We are a newly formed group that aim to have an active voice in transport and land use planning for our city.
This first blog is an overview of the web of agencies, plans and agendas that govern our transport planning and in our view make it nigh on impossible for the bold and integrated planning required to avoid the future that Auckland is now trying to untangle itself from.…
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