Auckland Transport Protects Children From Mandarin Hazard
This is a guest post by Chris Lange.
I live with my whanau in a quiet cul-de-sac street in Massey, West Auckland. At the request of fellow residents our street was lucky enough to be chosen to take part in Waka Kotahi NZ Transport Agency’s Innovating Streets for People programme.…
45 Comments Shining a Light into some Dark Places
Image credit: Alec Tang, via twitter
Throughout the world, the pandemic has changed street environments – for better or worse, depending on how they’ve been managed.
It’s clear we’ve been extremely lucky with our Government’s response to the public health situation.…
August-21 AT Board Meeting
Tomorrow the Auckland Transport board meet again and here are the highlights from their board reports. Closed Agenda
The agenda for this closed session contains a lot of rail related items.
Items for Approval Rail Franchise – Procurement update – Our trains are currently run by Transdev and the company, or various iterations of it (Connex and Veolia) have been running them since around 2004.…
Lockdown streets: here we go again
For the first time since April 2020, Aotearoa is back in a Level 4 lockdown following the discovery of a case of the Delta variant of Covid-19 in the community. The lockdown will initially go for 7 days in Auckland and the Coromandel, and 3 days in the rest of the country.…
A Mill Rd Alternative
In June the government announced changes to their NZ Upgrade Progamme (NZUP) which saw the cost blow out on many projects. Second to the media’s huge double standard focus on the Northern Pathway has been their coverage of the decision to cut back Mill Rd.…
AT’s heavy-handed enforcement… of the WRONG problem
Below is a section about berms from the Auckland Transport website, altered ever so slightly. Can you guess which key element has been changed? Parking on berms
Residents are not permitted to park on berms. On rare occasions permission may be given but this requires an application to Auckland Transport for a licence specific to their circumstances.…
July-21 AT Board Meeting
Today the Auckland Transport board meet again and it’s been while since we covered one. Here are the things that caught my attention from the agendas and papers.
Closed Session
The closed session is where most of the interesting stuff goes, though not entirely this month, and there were a number of items up for approval and noting this meeting that stood out.…
Innovating Streets, inviting perspectives
Waka Kotahi’s Innovating Streets pilot has seen dozens of tactical projects appear around the country, and the initial programme is now complete. Some projects will stay in place and evolve along a “pathway to permanence”, while others have reached their conclusion for now.…
Weekly Roundup – 09-July-21
We’re at the end of the week again. Here’s our roundup. Fare Free Day
Auckland Transport are hailing their Fare Free day last Saturday as a success.
A combination of free public transport and a sunny day saw Aucklanders take to public transport on Saturday in numbers not seen since before COVID.…
Queen St – Why is this so hard
There are so many things to be frustrated about with the likes of Auckland Council and Auckland Transport right now but one thing near the top of that list has to be their handling of changes to Queen St.
At a high-level this should be straightforward.…
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