Category: Weekly Roundup

Header image: Queen St, 1940s. Source – Alexander Turnbull via Auckland History Initiative Kia ora on the eve of what looks like a few days of solid sunshine in Auckland, perfect for picnic season. Here’s our roundup of interesting thoughts, newsy items and good reads for the week.…

Greetings! We’ve made it to the end of another week. The week in Greater Auckland On Monday Matt wrote about the death of the walking and cycling bridge across the Waitematā. In Tuesday’s post, Matt asked why induced demand, although well understood, continues to be ignored.…

Featured image: a Tokyo logistics trolley, Dan Hill/Medium And just like that, it’s October already. Aucklanders spent all of Mahuru/September, in lockdown. Hope you’re all doing well, here’s our weekly roundup! The week in Greater Auckland Monday’s post by Matt dove into Auckland’s public transport fares, how they’ve changed over the last decade, and how they compare to other cities On Tuesday, Matt wrote about the just-announced cluster of Midtown regeneration projects Wednesday’s post by Marita recounted her experience of a lockdown ride to the city centre, and the kid’s-eye view it gave her And yesterday’s post, again authored by Matt, went through the items on the list for this month’s AT board meeting.…

Hope you’ve had a great week. Here’s our roundup of interesting stories. The week in Greater Auckland posts Monday’s post was a guest post by Chris Lange, about his street’s successful play streets events and subsequent confusing follow-up by AT On Tuesday, Matt wrote about the outcomes of Auckland Light Rail’s 6-month investigation phase On Wednesday we had a guest post by Paul Callister and Robert McLachlan about the immense amount of road construction in the Kāpiti Coast and Horowhenua, and what that means for the region’s emissions Thursday’s post, again from Matt, covered the latest designs for Queen Street Bus stop names The names of bus stops are changing to make it easier for many to navigate.…

Kia ora, hope our Auckland readers are hanging in there – halfway through week five! The week in Greater Auckland In case you missed it, here’s what we published this week: Monday’s post was by John Polkinghorne, discussing why urbanism is important and relevant to everyone.…

Tēnā koutou, hope you’ve all had a great week. While the rest of Aotearoa has gone to level 2, here in Auckland we’re still in one of the world’s strictest lockdowns (but secretly still enjoying the low-traffic bike rides). Here’s our roundup for the week.…

Kua tae mai a Mahuru – September has arrived, Auckland is still in Lockdown, and we’re happy to see some sunny weather arrive in time for our weekend lockdown walks, scoots and bike rides. Meanwhile, here’s our roundup of transport news and good reads this week.…

Header image via twitter user @wildbaynz Ata mārie everyone. After a week and a half in lockdown you’re probably sick of the internet, but just in case you’re not, here’s our roundup of transport and urbanism reads for the week. City Rail Link August footage This drone footage of the Mt Eden station area was taken just before work ceased because of the level 4 lockdown.…

Kia ora koutou kātoa (that’s our best Ashley Bloomfield impression), we’re settling into Level 4 life once more, and hope you’re going OK. It’s been quite a week all around the motu, with good news and not-so-good news. It was encouraging to hear at the 1pm briefing yesterday that there is a likely link between the current community cases and a recent MIQ case.…

Header image: Discourses of Climate Delay, by Leonard Chemineau Welcome to the middle of Hereturikōkā (August), and here’s our weekly roundup. This week’s roundup has been written in the shadow of the IPCC report that came out on Monday night, and the ways in which we are and are not responding to its challenge.…