Flashback Saturday – Housing affordability and sprawl
Every weekend we dig into the archives. This post was originally published in December 2011.
The good old ‘compact city’ versus ‘urban sprawl’ debate has been reignited – with a Productivity Commission report on Housing Affordability pointing the finger at land-use regulation as a major cause for reduced housing affordability over the past decade: particularly in Auckland.…
20 Comments Weekly Roundup 10-Jan-20
It’s the first weekly roundup of 2020, our weekly collection of smaller pieces.
Tamaki Regeneration
I came across this excellent video released a few months ago from Tamaki Regeneration about their plans. It’s great they explicitly talk about changing streets to make them safer
One of the most interesting parts is this concept for a significantly upgraded Glen Innes Station.…
It’s time to increase traffic fines
There are not many things that have escaped the clutches of inflation over the last 20 years but one thing that has is traffic fines.
There was a good article by the Herald’s Chris Keall a few days ago about getting ticketed for using a phone while driving.…
Speeding up Wellington Buses
One of the most important things Auckland Transport need to do to improve public transport is to improve the speed and reliability of buses. This is something I wrote about a few times last year including this post where I analysed the average speed of buses in Auckland using timetable data.…
A History of Auckland’s urban form
Over the break while googling for something else I stumbled across this fascinating publication, titled A brief history of Auckland’s urban form 2019 by Leon Hoffman in the Council’s Research and Evaluation team. It had only been published days earlier on 19 December and as the name suggests, looks at the history of Auckland’s urban form.…
Road Deaths in 2019
For the first time in six years, we ended the calendar year with fewer road deaths than the year before. It’s an improvement but only a small victory when you consider that 353 people, just under 1 person a day, died on our roads in 2019 and that’s still 100 more than did so in 2013. We had been tracking even lower but December was the deadliest we’ve had in over a decade.…
Flashback Saturday: Re-analysing the City Rail Link’s benefits
Every weekend we dig into the archives. This post was first published in November 2011.
It has been frustrating to see the assessment of the City Rail Link’s benefits become so politicised over the past few months. You would think that something like undertaking a cost-benefit analysis of a transport project would be a fairly objective task, but as we have learned there are so many assumptions made when assessing transport projects – that the objectivity of the process has really become something of a myth.…
2020 – The year ahead
Welcome to 2020. Following my wrap up of 2019 last week I thought it would be good to look at some of the things we can expect to see in 2020. I think 2020 is very much going to be year where there’s lots of things going on but not necessarily a lot completed as projects race against the approaching timelines of 2021 when Auckland hosts the America’s Cup and APEC.…
2010s – A decade in Review
As we round out not only the year but also the decade, I’ve decided to join the ranks of end of decade reviews.
Thinking about the overall macro trend of the twenty tens, I think it’s one of Auckland starting to come of age as a city.…
2019 – A Year in Review
With 2019 drawing to a close I thought I’d pull together a quick post wrapping up the most important things that happened during the year.
Thank you to everyone who has visited the blog and supported us in making Auckland greater
City Rail Link
The country’s biggest transport project got a billion dollars bigger this year as a result future-proofing for 9-car trains ($250m), increased contingency costs ($310m), increased construction costs ($327m) and other increases, such as property purchases ($152m).…
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