Weekly Roundup 03-March-2023
Tēnā koutou. It’s MARCH!! Thanks for stopping by, summer, you were… chaotic.
Header image: the bicycle club of the Holy Sepulchre on Khyber Pass Road. Image via Twitter. The week in Greater Auckland
Tempted to rename this section ‘the week in Auckland Transport’ because our posts had a real AT focus this week – and a lot happened.…
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Kia ora, Was this a ‘normal’ week? Cautiously optimistic that the weekend will be uneventful too. The week in Greater Auckland
On Monday, Matt wondered why the public transport projects we build here seems so much more expensive than similar projects in other countries.…
Managing our stormwater
This post contains two guest posts from readers, both of which were sent to us after the flooding on Friday 27 January, both of which discuss how we handle our stormwater. This is a guest post from Ed Clayton, who’s written for us before about Auckland’s relationship with freshwater, the potential for green-tracking light rail, and creating ‘green density’ with Ecological Build Zones. …
Whatever happened to AT’s “Statements of Imagination”?
Once upon a time, our city dared to dream – and dared us all to dream, with the encouragement and examples of other cities just like ours – of what Auckland could be. If we slipped free of old shackles and bad habits.…
2023 – The Year Ahead
Welcome to 2023. After wrapping up 2022 before Christmas, here’s a look at some of the things we can expect to see and will be watching for this year. Public Transport
Public Transport Disruption
Disruption to our PT network dominated much of last year, first with the driver shortages then with news of the planned rail network shutdowns, the first of which is now underway. …
Flashback Saturday: The next decade
Most Saturdays we dig into the archives. This post by Matt was originally published in October 2014.
Yesterday I had a look some of the changes Auckland has seen over the last decade and as mentioned, here are some predictions for the next decade.…
European cities were once as car-choked as ours
This is a guest post by George Weeks, a chartered town planner and urban designer. This article originally appeared on The Spinoff and is republished here by kind permission.
Recent changes to planning legislation in New Zealand have enabled quite major changes to our urban landscape.…
Flashback Saturday: The Last Decade
Most Saturdays we dig into the archives. This post by Matt was originally published in October 2014.
The Herald on Sunday are celebrating their 10th birthday by looking at how things were 10 years ago so I thought I’d do the same by from a transport/urban slant.…
Flashback Saturday: Auckland’s city centre is getting more diverse
Most Saturdays we dig into the archives. This post by John was originally published in September 2014.
This post is the first part of what will be a three-part series on Auckland’s city centre and the 2013 census stats on it.…
Neighbourhoods: the missing ingredient
This is a guest post by reader Grady Connell. It was originally published on Today FM.
This is a story about the missing ingredient from both a cookie recipe… and newer housing developments. After listening to Tova O’Brien’s interview about how walkable your neighbourhood is and completing a recent ride around Pukekohe’s newer neighbourhoods, it made me realise there’s a missing ingredient.…
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