Category: Weekly Roundup

We are past the shortest day of the year, and hope everyone’s Matariki celebrations were good. To cap off the last full week of June, here’s some interesting news! This Week in Greater Auckland Saturday saw us release a video asking ‘When will Auckland’s City Rail Link Open?’.…

With a public holiday for Matariki tomorrow we’re kicking off our weekly roundup a day early. While it may be a short week there’s no shortage of news that caught our attention. This week in Greater Auckland On Tuesday Connor revealed the last government’s light rail switch.…

Another roundup after a week of thunderstorms and sunny days, here’s some stuff that caught our attention this week. This week on Greater Auckland For Monday Matt broke down why diverting buses to Maungawhau is a bad idea. On Tuesday we had a guest post by Darren Davis Queenstown’s Gondola fever!…

Already halfway through 2025, here’s the first roundup for winter of different stories that have caught our attention! This week on Greater Auckland On Tuesday Patrick did a deep dive into productivity, transport, and the City Centre. On Thursday Matt examined the Auditor Generals report into the reliability of public transport in Auckland and AT’s response.…

A quieter week from us in after the last one, but here’s some stuff that caught our attention. Feel free to share anything you found in the comments! This week on Greater Auckland On Wednesday, we had a guest post from Darren Davis about the state of rail across Aotearoa.…

It’s been a busy week. Here are a few things that caught our attention – as always, feel free to share relevant links in the comments so we can all catch up with the news on cities and what makes them great!…

It’s Friday once again, here’s some things that caught our attention this week. This week on Greater Auckland On Tuesday we had a guest post from Stu Donovan asking what we might do to strengthen our urban core. On Wednesday  a guest post from Christina Robertson asked why AT has commenced rolling out mass speed limit raises in Road Safety Week, when other cities have found a way around them.…

It’s another wet Friday so here are a few stories to read while you (hopefully) avoid the rain. This Week in Greater Auckland On Monday, Matt covered Auckland Transport’s latest plans for speeding up buses on Dominion Rd. For Wednesday, Matt looked at what is happening with ridership on our PT network.…

Wow we’re in May already and with ANZAC day last Friday we skipped the round up so here’s a bumper crop of the things that have caught our attention over the last two weeks. The last few weeks in Greater Auckland On Wednesday last week we ran a guest post from Darren Davis on public transport fares in Queensland.…

An early roundup this week, on account of the long weekend ahead. Watch out for the wind out there! This week in Greater Auckland On Monday we shared an open letter to Auckland Transport about Project K  (further to the last-minute watering down of designs we covered last week, and AT’s reply which we shared in last week’s roundup.)…