Category: Admin & Events

This is a quick event notice for our friends at Women in Urbanism. Apologies for the late notice. Kia ora! Please join us today at Russell McVeagh for a conversation on Women and Cities! Ellie Craft from Women and Urbanism Aotearoa and MRCagney will be delivering a short 101 on WiUA.…

Over the holiday season we’re doing fewer and shorter posts. Matt and Patrick were recently interviewed by Paul Barter for his “Reinventing Transport” podcast. The episode can be played below, or wherever you normally find your podcasts. A description of the episode is below: I recently interviewed Patrick Reynolds and Matt Lowrie who are two of the bloggers on the Greater Auckland blog in New Zealand’s largest city. …

An event readers may be interested in: Street Talks: Transforming Public Transport with Auckland’s New Network – with Anthony Cross 5:30pm – 7:00pm Wednesday 18th July, Whare Wānanga, Papa Tuarua/ Second Floor, Tāmaki Pātaka Kōrero/ Central Library, Lorne Street Auckland has made enormous strides in public transport in the last two decades – from pity mode for people with no better choice to a key structuring element of a fast-growing, dynamic city.…

We are pleased to announce this year’s Greater Auckland Film Night on 7 March at Capitol Cinema screening Why We Cycle. We have heard great things about this movie from our Dutch correspondents. You can see the trailer here. You can grab your tickets here. …

It is perhaps a testament to our success and exposure that people so often ask “who funds Greater Auckland?”. Our supporters wonder how we manage to be so prolific and high profile, while our detractors allege we must be in the pocket of government or big business.…

Thanks to everyone that contributed to our Pledge Me fundraiser. At the end of the drive we raised $25,520 from 337 people. Over the next few days we will begin fulfilling the rewards we promised. We would like to express our appreciation to the following people: Sian T Chris Hitchcock Catarina Gutierrez Dion O’Neale Felix Lee Maulik Thakkar Chris Kitt Jeremy Pitt Michael Holder Nicholas Hooper Ossu Liza Bolton Jon Turner Timboydwhite Peter Bisley Timothy Harton Sophie Bond Damon Maria Keiran MacLachlan Maureen West Ben Reynolds Max Robitzsch Duncan Law Simon Barker Sarah Bell Alistair Kendrick Rob Russell Cameron Brooks Chris Birch Robert Simpson Richard Ashurst Tenani French Andrey Kuzminov All Day Breakfast Ltd Mitch Cantlon Camryn Peter Brown Peter Cockrem Kieran Waelen Glen Dodds John Scott Elfrik Aaron Masagnay Heather and Martin Roberts Les Gates Bruce Christopher Kieran Slee Gareth Karl Rene Lange Guy Gibson Paul de Spa Jack Garden Luke Harries Gavin Ralph Sam Prescott Blake Fairburn Joseph Corbett-Davies David Belgrave Chris Wharton Adrian Jongenelen Abby Granbery Ashely Schroder…