Why cities should make space for urban green
This is a guest post by Anna Michels. Anna is an urban designer recently with HUE, and she is about to start a role at WSP New Zealand.
We are living through tumultuous times: just out of covid-19 lockdowns, RMA reform at our doorstep, the recent central government housing mandates (NPS-UD and MDRS), the release of the Emissions Reduction Plan and the new Budget.…
26 Comments Weekly Roundup 03-June-2022
Nau mau haere mai ki te marama o Pipiri – it’s June and it’s Matariki season! How did that happen? The week in Greater Auckland
On Monday, Matt critiqued the AA’s recent call for more roads.
Tuesday’s guest post by Tim Adriaansen reflected on a year of inaction on the Harbour Bridge.…
Queen Street’s Nine Lives
In a paper presented to the Rotary Club of Auckland in 1978, the city’s then Deputy Mayor J.R Firth laid out what he saw as the two primary issues dominating the minds of Council and its ratepayers. The first being the ubiquitous issue of rates, the second being a more recent proposal to pedestrianise Queen Street.…
How many people need to die for Auckland Transport to act?
It’s been three months since our post, Where do we put our fury and our grief?, which responded to a cycling fatality on our roads. Later that same week, we all learned that the person killed while riding their bike on Manukau Road in Royal Oak was 19-year-old Levi James.…
Pushing past the barriers to the Auckland Harbour Bridge
This is a guest post by sustainable transport and accessibility advocate Tim Adriaansen.
On a sunny Sunday morning a year ago, around 5,000 people gathered in Point Erin Park to express their growing incredulousness – especially given the impending climate emergency – at the lack of access for walking and cycling on the Auckland Harbour Bridge.…
AA calls for more roads
Last week the Automobile Association released their latest Congestion Report and used it to call for more money to be spent on roads.
Auckland’s gridlock nightmare is getting worse with a new report showing travel times are taking longer on the city’s motorways and main roads.…
Weekly roundup 27-May-2022
Tēnā koutou, hope you’re all keeping warm in this teasingly wintry weather! Weekly Roundup’s a little slow out of the blocks this morning, but still here to provide you with another brain-warming collection of interesting ideas to chew over.
Cover image is of the just-opened section 2 of the Glen Innes to Tāmaki Drive shared path, via AT.…
A HOP too far? The end of cash fares
Auckland Transport has ruled out bringing back cash fares on buses, as reported by Newshub and picked up by other outlets including Pacific Media News, whose tweet puts it in terms anyone who’s been a teenager can probably relate to… Gone are the days of scabbing a few coins to bus home – Auckland Transport rules out bringing back cash fares.…
Why is this still happening in 2022?
Kāinga Ora are currently in the process of building thousands of new homes all across Auckland within the existing urban area. This is obviously a good thing and support it, Auckland Transport started a project to work with Kāinga Ora on this.…
Don’t Look Up
An interesting announcement from Waka Kotahi yesterday about a trial of safety cameras From tomorrow, across three Auckland locations, we're trialing safety cameras to get a better understanding of how many people drive while using their mobile phones, and how many people don’t wear their seatbelts: https://t.co/EyBgjJfyGi…
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