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.…
Imagine, a city
This summary of where we’re at was originally presented at a City Vibes event run by The Urban Room on 9th December 2025, and like all our work, is brought to you by the Greater Auckland crew and made possible by generous donations from our readers and fans.…
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.…
Throwback Thursday: CRL costs money but also provides huge benefits
With the cost (and the value) of CRL in the news recently, we’ve gone back and dug up this post from Matt a few years ago in 2023 on what CRL brings. The City Rail Link has been in the headlines a bit recently so I thought I’d look at some of them.…
Light Rail Lives On?
Earlier this year Te Waihanga, the New Zealand Infrastructure Commission, invited submissions for Round 2 of its Infrastructure Priorities Programme (IPP), looking to help identify proposals and projects that: are nationally important
will meet New Zealand’s strategic objectives
represent good value for money
and can be delivered.…
CRL delayed till second half of 2026
While Melbourne’s Metro Tunnel officially opened yesterday, our own rail tunnel just got a little further away.
For some time now, it has been said that the City Rail Link (CRL) will open sometime in 2026, and there was a lot of hope that it could be early in 2026 given we’re already seeing Auckland Transport running timetable testing and that the construction part of the project was due for completion now.…
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.…
The frequentisation of Tāmaki Makaurau
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. The bad old days To get a full appreciation of just how big a transformation Auckland’s bus network has undergone, you have to look back to the bad old days.…
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