2026 – The Year Ahead
Welcome to 2026. After wrapping up 2025, here’s a look at some of the things we can expect to see this year – along with a few predictions.
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Here we are at the end of 2025, so it’s time for quick wrap-up of the most important things that happened this year for urbanism and transport in our city.
A huge thank you to everyone who has visited the blog, shared our work, and supported us in our mission to make a greater Tāmaki Makaurau.…
The year in public transport in Aotearoa
This is a guest post by Darren Davis. It originally appeared on his excellent blog, Adventures in Transitland, which we encourage you to check out. It is shared by kind permission. As 2025 comes to a close, it’s hard not to feel whiplash at the breadth and speed of the government’s “Reform” programme embracing resource management; local and regional government; development levies; infrastructure funding and three waters.…
Higher fares, and other transport updates
Tomorrow, the Council’s Transport and Infrastructure Delivery committee meets for the first time this term (Tuesday 9 December at 10am) and there’s a bunch of interesting updates on the agenda. Fare Increase Incoming
Public transport use seems to have stagnated this year with ridership stuck at about 86% of pre-COVID levels due to a combination of factors, including the ongoing rail disruption and the fare increases we’ve experienced in recent years.…
2025 Public Transport Ridership Update
We’re rapidly approaching the end of the year and it’s been a while since we last looked at what was happened with public transport ridership, so it’s time to take a look again.
First up, data for October suggests that at a monthly level, we can see we’re tracking almost identically to last year.…
Accessing the Acropolis
Tāmaki/Auckland only has a few public institutions of national significance: the Art Gallery, the Museum, and Auckland University, each housed in nationally significant buildings. Plus only a few truly high quality landmark buildings of similar value: Waitematā Station, Customs House, Ferry Building, West Plaza, and the Sky Tower, say.…
Pre-Rapid Transit
A clear game-changer for Auckland would be the earliest possible completion of the long-planned Rapid Transit Network. We have a growing and improving bunch of lines, on a long held and evolving plan, but as yet not enough of the whole to gain the great multiplying benefit of the network effect.…
CRL progress and plans for more Bus and Transit lanes
Tomorrow is the next meeting for the Council’s Transport, Resilience and Infrastructure Committee and there’s a lot of focus on the City Rail Link, though there are a few other interesting items too. City Rail Link
Given we’re getting close to the end of the City Rail Link, and with the last major period of network disruption approaching, it’s unsurprising there’s a lot of focus on the progress towards completing it.…
Letter from Wellington: a glow up for the Harbour Quays
This is a guest post from Wellington-based Kasey McDonnell, which originally appeared on their blog threesixtysix,. It is republished here with kind permission. Boy am I horny for bus lanes.
Splash paint on a road, reserve it for buses that carry 70 people each, and you’ve instantly improved public transport.…
The Transport Plans for Downtown West
As the City Rail Link works start to wrap up over the next year, focus is starting to shift to where next for improvement in the city centre and one of the areas to be focused on is the Downtown West area in conjunction with Pūmanawa Downtown West which is the redevelopment of the Downtown Carpark site.…
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