Ready-Made Council Plans At Your Service
Thank you, local government candidates. The sacrifice of your time, energy and privacy is deeply appreciated, whether or not you achieved the position you sought. Your standing provided us with choice. I believe the election has delivered a good team of representatives to help keep this city ticking along and improving.…
87 Comments Upgrading the NW Cycleway – consultation
The Northwestern cycleway has been one of Auckland’s best cycle success stories. Over the last decade as it has been progressively extended and better connections to it built it has seen a significant uptake in usage.
In the year following completion of the section between Bond and Myrtle streets in 2010, just over 100,000 people were recorded riding at Kingsland.…
Fifty Percent May Be Acceptable To You
Auckland’s Climate Action Framework – Te Tāruke-ā-Tāwhiri is a very readable piece of work resulting from extensive public engagement, and covering a lot of topics. It’s time to make your submissions – they’re due Monday.
Auckland has had a Low Carbon Strategic Action Plan since 2014.…
Going round in circles at Royal Oak
This is a cross post from our friends at Bike Auckland. The original post is here.
Auckland Transport is consulting on an “upgrade” to the Royal Oak roundabout, which sits at the heart of what we in Bike Auckland call the “Bike Bermuda Triangle”: the central isthmus, woefully bereft of bikeways.…
City Centre Masterplan refresh consultation
Over the last year we’ve learnt about the council’s plans to refresh the City Centre Masterplan (CCMP), including some great new initiatives to make the city centre even better and more people-focused. The refresh is needed as the current version was adopted back in 2012 and a lot has changed over seven years.…
Doubts on Redoubt – Delusions and Solutions
Traffic in Auckland – no one loves it. Every objective we have for transport is hindered by the one common problem: we have too much traffic. It’s taking a toll on our health, and it’s keeping people stuck in congestion without transport options.…
If AT were really trying to change things
Over the last few years, Auckland Transport have increasingly become the go to political pinata by those looking to score some quick headlines – if you don’t like something about Auckland, blame AT. They’re accused of all sorts of things, from not listening to the public all the way to being ideological bullies waging a war on cars to force people out on to bikes and public transport.…
Less Parking, Please
Parking is seen as a public good that should be supplied to everyone… Resistance to parking management is tied in a nostalgic way to “the good old days” and used as a form of coded language to complain about increases in population density or changes in community demographics or class structure.…
Accessing Skypath 2.0
Back in May the NZTA announced the new design for Skypath, the Auckland Harbour Bridge Shared Path. Their new design is for a wider, 5m path but at the time they said they were still working on how it would connect at each end.…
What’s More Stimulating than a Road?
Stephen Joyce tried to appeal to New Zealanders’ common sense in an opinion piece over the weekend:
It makes sense in a slowing economy to bring forward infrastructure investment to boost economic activity and protect jobs. You get the economic boost from the extra spend, plus something to show for it.…
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