Planning for Air Travel
This is a guest post by Paul Callister and Wallace Rae.
As Auckland transitions from an ‘overgrown town’ to a ‘world-class city’, it faces many challenges. These aren’t just related to liveability concerns from our sprawling land use and high car dependency.…
91 Comments Dec-19 AT Board Meeting
Today the Auckland Transport board meet for the last time this year.
Closed Agenda
There is a bumper crop of items of the closed agenda this month, presumably as staff try to get things signed off before the end of the year.…
Getting on with Rapid Transit to the Northwest
Auckland’s transport history is littered with mistakes and missed opportunities and one of the biggest in recent times was that after spending around a decade and hundreds of millions of dollars widening the Northwestern motorway, a busway, or any other form of rapid transit, was not included or even future proofed for.…
Flashback Saturday: Our street network working against us
Every weekend we dig into the archives. This post by Matt was originally published in August 2011.
The City Rail Link (CRL) is a vital project for the city however as we know the government commissioned review has rejected the business case for it.…
Weekly Roundup 29-Nov-19
Here’s the roundup of some of the things we didn’t yet cover this week.
More Auckland Transport Consultation
After months of silence in the lead up to the local body elections, AT are clearly now playing catch up and trying to squeeze in all of their consultations before Christmas.…
Legless Crossings
When thinking about how we get around, walking should form the foundation of the transport pyramid, the thing that we make the easiest and enable the most of. It’s something that we all do (without feet or with a mobility aid) and yet our built environment can be downright hostile to people not in a car.…
Italy – Tolls and Trains
This is a guest post by reader John Wood.
Prologue
Earlier this year my wife and I set out to visit Italy, Prague and Austria. She was keen to see the work of an interior decorator who had worked in Rome and also some of the old buildings in the cities we planned to visit.…
City centre employment keeps growing
Hottish off the press: there are now more than 120,000 people working in Auckland’s city centre,* making it the biggest hub for employment in New Zealand. Almost 3,000 jobs were added in the last year.
That’s based on a fairly typical definition of the city centre, stretching from Wynyard Quarter to the eastern end of the ports, and inside the motorway noose (plus the western end of K Road).…
Should we rip off the level-crossing band-aid?
With the exception of how people access Britomart, the construction works for the City Rail Link so far have had little impact on rail users. But as we wrote last week, that will change from the middle of next year when the Mt Eden station closes for 3½ years to enable the western line to be dropped by as much as 4m as part of grade separating Normanby Rd and to accommodate the construction of the CRL tunnels.…
Flashback Saturday: High Density Sprawl – not an oxymoron?
Every weekend we dig into the archives. This post was originally published in August 2011.
The most commonly cited characteristic of urban sprawl is its low-density. In fact, density is often used as the sole way of determining whether a city is sprawled or not – and (following on from that) whether a city’s urban form is conducive to public transport or not.…
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