Flashback Saturday: AT’s New CEO (again)
Most Saturdays we dig into the archives. The post below was originally published on 1 April 2022. That’s barely six months ago, but it feels like a timely re-read given this week’s developments.
Developments in a nutshell: A year ago, Auckland Transport’s CEO, Shane Ellison, resigned.…
16 Comments Auckland Council’s new governance structure
Every mayor of Auckland gets to set up the council’s committee structure as they see fit, and last week Mayor Wayne Brown announced his one, with appointments to be formalised at a governing body meeting on Thursday.
There are a couple of big changes compared to Phil Goff’s structure.…
The real work begins for Auckland Council
The Auckland Council’s first “proper” Governing Body meeting this Thursday signals that Wayne Brown’s mayoralty will need to shift away from daily press releases and onto the real work of governing New Zealand’s largest city. And it seems our new mayor, and his fellow councillors, are going to have a pretty rough ride with a $270 million operational cost gap to fill – largely caused by higher than expected inflation and interest costs.…
Concerning news coming out of Auckland Transport
This week we are taking a break from our usual Friday roundup. It’ll be back next Friday.
We have all been waiting to see what impact Auckland’s new mayor and council might have on the city’s transport direction. The messages so far have been pretty mixed.…
Wayne Brown’s expectations of AT
Last week, Auckland’s new Mayor, Wayne Brown, started a new trend by publishing a letter a day on various priorities of his, with mobile phone blackspots on Sunday, Three Waters on Monday and the Port on Tuesday.
On Wednesday his focus turned to Auckland Transport, from whom he demanded a “complete change in approach“:
“You appear to have been focussed on changing how Aucklanders live, using transport policy and services as a tool,” he wrote.…
Dear Wayne
Dear Wayne,
Congratulations on becoming the third Mayor of Auckland. You have some big footsteps to follow. While voter turnout was unacceptably low – and you really need to work with government to change how local government elections work – there’s no doubt your call to “fix Auckland” struck a chord with many Aucklanders.…
2022 Council Election Results
After months of campaigning, debates, the elections are finally over.
Here are the preliminary results some may change when the final results come in. Apparently today’s votes will be added in tomorrow and special votes on Thursday.
Mayor
Wayne Brown wins the mayoralty with 144k votes to Efeso Collins’ 90k.…
Lifting our game for systems change – project by project
Today, Auckland Transport is running two “community participation sessions”:
Through an independent facilitator, these sessions will delve into the pros and cons of options that physically separate cycle and vehicle lanes, incorporating your feedback and ideas, enabling us to collectively reach a solution.…
The government’s performance on transport – 5 years on
On October 20th 2017 I wrote a very hopeful post about the change that is coming to transport. The previous evening Winston Peters had, finally, chosen to form a Government with Labour. In that post I laid out a lot of reasons to be hugely optimistic about the future.…
Taking a trip with Germany’s €9 ticket
This is a guest post by Ella Kay. Ella is a New Zealander living in Berlin.
Germany’s €9 public transport ticket has presented a social experiment of great proportions and has been a key protagonist in the modeshift dialogue since its release at the beginning of June this year.…
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