Category: Weekly Roundup

It’s Friday again so here’s our latest roundup of stories that caught our eye this week. The Week in Greater Auckland On Monday, Matt covered AT’s plan to close level-crossings on the rail network, starting with the walking/ biking ones that are handy to schools.…

It’s Friday again so here’s our latest roundup of stories that caught our eye this week. The Week in Greater Auckland On Monday Heidi returned with a guest post about the Auckland Transport Board dropping the ball on TERP. On Wednesday we ran a post from Darren Davis looking at a history of Perth’s rail network.…

It’s Friday again so here’s our latest roundup of stories that caught our eye this week. The Week in Greater Auckland On Tuesday we ran a post from our friends at Bike Auckland on Liberating a lane on the Harbour Bridge.…

It’s Friday and we’ve got a long weekend ahead of us. Here’s our latest roundup of stories that caught our eye this week. The Week in Greater Auckland On Monday Matt reviewed National’s new housing policy. On Tuesday Matt looked at some of the highlights from Auckland Transport’s latest board meeting.…

Welcome to Friday – again! Hard to believe we’re almost in June. Here’s our latest roundup of stories that caught our eye this week. The Week in Greater Auckland On Monday, Matt covered the transport highlights from this year’s Budget. On Tuesday, Matt asked if the end is finally in sight for bus disruption Yesterday, Matt looked at some of the implications on other projects of the delay on the City Rail Link Reminder on Karanga-a-Hape Station neighbourhood Consultation A quick reminder that today is the last day to give feedback on the consultation for improvements around the Karanga-a-Hape station entrances.…

Welcome to Friday. Here’s our latest roundup of stories that caught our eye this week. The Week in Greater Auckland On Monday, Matt looked at Christchurch’s proposal for light rail On Tuesday, Matt covered AT’s Hobson St consultation Yesterday, Matt highlighted how we’re taking resilience more seriously but we need to do the same with emissions reductions The Budget The government delivered their latest budget yesterday.…

Welcome to Friday, it’s been a crazy week of weather in Auckland and we’re certainly looking forward to what is meant to be a more settled weekend. Here’s our latest roundup of stories that caught our eye this week. The Week in Greater Auckland On Monday, Matt asked if it is finally time to reform Kiwirail On Wednesday Matt looked at the impacts on public transport of the latest storm induced chaos Yesterday a guest post shone a light on intercity rail in the Upper North Island A continued focus on Kiwirail Kiwirail’s failures have continued to be in the news this week, including this good piece from Radio NZ’s The Detail looking at how things have gotten so bad.…

Mōrena and welcome back to another Friday. We hope it’s going slightly better for you than for a certain billionaire whose rocket just experienced a “rapid unscheduled disassembly”. Related: where will we find the top urbanist news tidbits and inspiring images to bring you every week, if the same thing happens to a certain social media app?…

Welcome to the end of another short week. Hope your Easter break was restful and that those of you with school holidays in the mix are having a good time. Our header image this week is Tiffany Robinson and her e-trike on the Quay St cycleway, from this story in Momentum magazine.…

With Good Friday tomorrow, we thought we’d do the weekly roundup a day early this week. Here’s a basket of reading goodies for your long weekend. Our header image this week, via the Auckland City Centre Residents Group, shows a social gathering in the Emily Place park (a legacy project of the original Innovating Streets programme, still going strong.)…