Flashback Saturday – Removing the Dominion/New North interchange?
Every weekend we dig into the archives. This post was first published in August 2011.
As a kid I was always fascinated by the bizarre interchange between New North Road and Dominion Road, between Kingsland and Eden Terrace. You know the one – it looks like this: From Dominion Road/Ian McKinnon Drive, the interchange looks like this:
You can see from the above photos how “out of place” the interchange is with its surrounding area.…
8 Comments Consultation Crunch 2.0
For the second year in a row, there is a rush on to get a heap of consultations completed right before everyone heads off for summer holidays – some of which were likely delayed from earlier in the year due to the elections.…
Dec-19 AT Board Meeting
Today the Auckland Transport board meet for the last time this year.
Closed Agenda
There is a bumper crop of items of the closed agenda this month, presumably as staff try to get things signed off before the end of the year.…
Weekly Roundup 29-Nov-19
Here’s the roundup of some of the things we didn’t yet cover this week.
More Auckland Transport Consultation
After months of silence in the lead up to the local body elections, AT are clearly now playing catch up and trying to squeeze in all of their consultations before Christmas.…
Weekly Roundup 22-Nov-19
Here’s a roundup of some of the stories that have cropped up this week – although a couple are from last week after we missed the post last Friday.
Auckland Transport Consultation Frenzy
AT have launched a large number of consultations over the last two weeks.…
Observations from Urban-cycling Nirvana
This is a guest post by Marita Hunt.
The cycling infrastructure in Copenhagen is, as we all know (well, we transport and urban design nerds), fundamental to the city’s transport system. Bikes are treated as a completely normal and sensible way to get around, and space is made for cyclists in every corner of the city.…
The Southwest Gateway Programme
Improving access in the Southwest but also including connections all the way up to Botany is one of the key areas our transport agencies are focusing on right now through a programme called the Southwest Gateway. There are already some early works for this with a significant upgrade of Puninui Station already underway and there are other works to come such as priority lanes on SH20B.…
Weekly Roundup 08-Nov-19
Here’s a roundup of some of the stories that have cropped up this week CRL Walkthrough Tickets
On Wednesday City Rail Link gave away tickets for a walk though of the tunnels next weekend. However due to the strong demand and an appalling system that would reserve tickets but kept on crashing when you tried to enter your details to secure them, many people including myself were left frustrated by not being able to get any.…
Weekly Roundup 01-Nov-19
It may have been a short week but there’s still be plenty of transport news. So here’s a bit of a round up of the other stories that have cropped up this week.
First new electric train arrives
The first of our 15 new electric trains arrived last week
AM810 arrived from Spain on via roll-on/roll-off vessel, Hoegh Transporter.…
Elevated Lines
This is a guest post by Ella Kay.
I’m currently staying adjacent to one of Berlin’s U-Bahn lines. I wouldn’t usually notice how proximate I was to a train line (apart from being near enough to a station), but couldn’t avoid noticing it here as the rail line is just below eye level of my fourth floor window.…
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