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Welcome back to another Friday. Here’s some articles that caught our attention this week. This Week in Greater Auckland On Wednesday Matt looked at the latest with the Airport to Botany project. On Thursday Matt covered the revelation that Auckland Transport have to subsidise towing illegally parked cars.…

This is a cross-post from our friends at Bike Auckland, with an intro by Fiain d’Leafy, their Chief Biking Officer. Feedback on AT’s current tranche of proposed safe speeds is open until Monday 28 August. This post explains why it’s important to take a moment to add your voice, and how to speak up for safer speeds around schools.…

Update: The AT Board approved this project! See nice write-up here by Simon Wilson. Onwards! Tuesday 27 June is Groundhog Day for the Auckland Transport Board, which finds itself at a self-imposed crossroads on Great North Rd. The Board can finally green-light the design it first approved for construction back in October 2021, after what has been an extraordinary process of delay.…

This post was originally written almost exactly a year ago by several Greater Auckland writers, with a contribution from Jon Turner, the deputy chair of the Puketāpapa Local Board. We still often think of Levi James and his family, and how they were failed by Auckland Transport.…

As the planet continues to cook, extreme weather events like those we experienced over the last two weeks are set to become more frequent. How we plan our cities to mitigate the risks of climate change will inevitably be more salient going forward, and that will only increase over time.…

Most Saturdays we dig into the archives. This post by Matt was originally published in September 2014. Along with information about the Downtown open space options, the agenda for the councils Development Committee (19 MB) contains an update on the Northwestern Busway.…

Most Saturdays we dig into the archives. This post by Matt was originally published in September 2014. Yesterday the Herald ran a fantastic opinion piece from Dr Jamie Hosking who is a senior lecturer and health and transport researcher at the University of Auckland.…

It’s people who will make our city a nicer place to live, work, care, play – and move around. People – with clever minds, holding a vision of a beautiful, thriving city. People – whose commitment to each other creates a better home for all of us.…

Today the Auckland Transport board meet again and here are the highlights from their board reports. You can also watch the open session of the meeting live between 9am to 9:55am if you want via this Microsoft Teams link. Closed Agenda Below are the items from the closed agenda that caught my attention the most.…