Category: Weekly Roundup

Header image: Christmas Lights on Britomart. By Brett Phibbs via NZ Herald. Tēnā koutou, and welcome to day one of the traffic-light system in Aotearoa. The week in Greater Auckland Monday’s post was a guest post by Hamish Mackie, summarising research that followed the various Innovating Streets for People projects around the motu On Tuesday, Jolisa and Marita looked around at the car-clogged carparks of Auckland’s lovely urban beaches and wondered how getting to the beach could work better for everyone.…

Kia ora! You’ll be reading this on day 101 of lockdown. Hope you’re all holding up OK. It’s a stacked roundup this week, we’ve got lots of reading for your weekend. The week in Greater Auckland Monday’s post by Matt dove into plans for the Eastern Busway.…

Header image via Curbed. Kia ora. Hope everyone’s doing well! Here’s our roundup of interesting news and findings for the week. The week in Greater Auckland Monday’s post, by Matt, followed several in-depth looks at Light Rail over the last couple of weeks, and looked at the lessons we can find in past rapid transit plans.…

Kia ora koutou, happy friday in ‘alert level 3, step 2’ here in Tāmaki. Here’s our roundup for the week. Apologies for the late post this morning, we had IT issues. The week in Greater Auckland Monday’s post, by Matt, looked at AT’s parking strategy.…

Tēnā koutou all – thanks for sticking with us through week… @%^ or whatever, I believe it’s day 66 of lockdown in Tāmaki. Time is meaningless, and yet – it was an eventful week! Hope you’re all doing OK. The week in Greater Auckland We had some fantastic posts this week.…

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.…