Weekly Roundup – 24-Jan-20
Here’s our weekly collection of smaller pieces.
Otahuhu station works
Over the Christmas/New Year period works were undertaken to enable the third platform at Otahuhu, which is being done as part of the City Rail Link. A timelapse of the works is below. Electric Bus MoU
Auckland Transport’s current plans to roll out electric buses with them specifying all new buses be electric by 2025 and all buses electric by 2040 is simply not ambitious enough.…
27 Comments Reinventing Auckland using Lessons from Ghent
A few weeks ago, Streetfilms released an eye-catching video about the small Belgian city of Ghent, and the dramatic changes they made to traffic circulation in 2017. This video should be professional development watching for everyone involved in Auckland’s transport planning.…
Weekly Roundup 17-Jan-20
Here’s our weekly collection of smaller pieces. Housing Consents
Stats NZ announced this week that NZ as a whole had reached a 45-year high for new home consents.
“For the first time in 45 years, the annual number of new homes consented rose to over 37,000,” construction statistics manager Melissa McKenzie said.…
Weekly Roundup 10-Jan-20
It’s the first weekly roundup of 2020, our weekly collection of smaller pieces.
Tamaki Regeneration
I came across this excellent video released a few months ago from Tamaki Regeneration about their plans. It’s great they explicitly talk about changing streets to make them safer
One of the most interesting parts is this concept for a significantly upgraded Glen Innes Station.…
2020 – The year ahead
Welcome to 2020. Following my wrap up of 2019 last week I thought it would be good to look at some of the things we can expect to see in 2020. I think 2020 is very much going to be year where there’s lots of things going on but not necessarily a lot completed as projects race against the approaching timelines of 2021 when Auckland hosts the America’s Cup and APEC.…
2010s – A decade in Review
As we round out not only the year but also the decade, I’ve decided to join the ranks of end of decade reviews.
Thinking about the overall macro trend of the twenty tens, I think it’s one of Auckland starting to come of age as a city.…
2019 – A Year in Review
With 2019 drawing to a close I thought I’d pull together a quick post wrapping up the most important things that happened during the year.
Thank you to everyone who has visited the blog and supported us in making Auckland greater
City Rail Link
The country’s biggest transport project got a billion dollars bigger this year as a result future-proofing for 9-car trains ($250m), increased contingency costs ($310m), increased construction costs ($327m) and other increases, such as property purchases ($152m).…
Weekly Roundup 6-Dec-19
Here’s the roundup of some of the things we didn’t yet cover this week.
Dogs on Trains
Back in June Auckland Transport started trialling allowing pets to travel on trains in a three-month trial. However, the rules were that animals have to be “enclosed in suitable pet carriers that are small enough to be held on the owner’s lap or stored under the seat”.…
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.…
Italy – Tolls and Trains
This is a guest post by reader John Wood.
Prologue
Earlier this year my wife and I set out to visit Italy, Prague and Austria. She was keen to see the work of an interior decorator who had worked in Rome and also some of the old buildings in the cities we planned to visit.…
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