Where are the Special Housing Areas?
We now have had 3 tranches of the government Special Housing Areas announced over the past year. The first tranche in October 2013, second in December 2013 and the third in May 2014. In brief these are defined areas that allow developments to be fast tracked through special consenting procedures, and the zones and rules from the Proposed Unitary Plan are applied.…
11 Comments CFN and budget transport announcements
In the May budget the Government announced they would fastrack yet another $800 million of motorway projects, partially financed by a $375 million loan. These were projects that had been identified in the Prime Minister’s Auckland speech in 2013. There were 3 main projects as outlined below.…
Waterfront Promenade update
While many people are aware of the Grafton Gully cycle route that is currently under construction, and the connecting Beach Road route that will soon start, another major cycleway project is currently progressing at good pace. This is the Waterfront Promenade, which will link Wynyard Quarter and Westhaven Marina.…
More bus lanes required – Mt Eden Road
Mount Eden Road is one of our premier isthmus bus corridors, now having a very high frequency. Between 7am and 9am 36 buses depart Three Kings, or nearly one every 3 minutes. Half of all Airbuses also use this corridor giving an extra 3 per hour each way.…
Submit on the K Road and Newton Area Plans today
As we mentioned last week, the Karangahape Road Area Plan is open for submissions, which close Wednesday 5pm. Generation Zero have been running a campaign to call for separated cycle lanes on Karangahape Road. The 8 Key reasons for this were included on the original post here. …
Support Separated Cycle Lanes on K Road
Waitemata Local Board are currently consulting on an Area Plan for Karangahape Road. Overall it is a reasonable document, though of course it could do with some strengthening. It correctly highlights the importance of the Karangahape Road City Rail Link station for example.…
Carlton Gore Cycle Lane NIMBYism
Auckland Transport are currently consulting on adding cycle lanes to Carlton Gore Road. Major infrastructure work requiring road rebuilding has led to an obvious opportunity to add quality cycle lanes. See the full story on the Cycle Action blog here. However in brief, initially a typical rubbish Auckland design was proposed with a narrow painted lane on one side only, and stopping well back from intersections.…
What happened to rail frequency increases?
Over the last few years we have been concerned the rail network failed to meet its patronage targets. A key reason for this would be the failure of Auckland Transport to implement rail frequency improvements over the past few years. With the start of EMU services this week it is surely time to start increasing frequencies.…
ACT Party spokespeople tragically born missing sense of irony
There are many great contradictions in politics, and there’s never enough time to explain them all. Certainly one of the greatest contradictions, though, has to be what some people associated with the ACT party have to say about intensification. The supposed ‘free market party’ seems quite scared of landowners’ rights to develop their land in the way they see fit – something you’d think would be more likely from the Conservative party.…
Quick progress on Fanshawe Street bus lane proposal
In early February the blog set out to once again highlight Auckland Transport’s lack of progress on implementing any bus lanes, and highest priority we thought was fixing the Fanshawe Street westbound, which consisted of a few isolated and dysfunctional sections, but mostly had nothing at all.…
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