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- Book Review: The Future Embraced
- Simeon Brown’s fanaticism kills Warkworth intersection fix
- Weekly Roundup 06-December-2024
- Kirikiriroa Rising
- Auckland Transport (mostly) goneburger
- Gt North Rd improvements to finally start
- Going in circles: How to fix transport in the City Centre
- Weekly Roundup 29-November-2024
- Love your Berm
- NZTA pushing for PT fare hikes and service cuts
- What to do about Auckland Transport?
- A visitor from the Hawkes Bay rides AT’s buses & trains.
- Weekly Roundup 22-November-2024
- Throwback Thursday: Will “Auckland Transport” Survive?
- Transport modelling is an illusion
- How should we talk about change?
- A clearer network for the City Rail Link?
- Thank you, driver!
- Weekly Roundup 15-November-2024
- Time and Space in the City Centre
- Western Express turns one in style
- 150 days of rail disruption to come
- Speeding toward a lethal legacy
- Weekly Roundup 7-November-2024
- Throwback Thursday: 10 Years
- What should AT do with PT for Whangaparaoa after Penlink Opens
- Auckland’s 2025 PT Fare Increases
- A Fresh Horizon for Greater Auckland
- Weekly Roundup 1-November-2024
- First section of Te Ha Noa Opens
- Henderson Station Upgrade but will it Improve Customer Experience
- October-24 AT Board Meeting
- Weekly Roundup 25-October-2024
- What if Instagram girlies planned Auckland?
- Is the Isthmus becoming a retirement village?
- Safer, Smarter, Sooner: about these concrete tim tams…
- Time for a Transfer of Power in Entrust
- Weekly Roundup 18-October-2024
- Auckland Harbour Bridge is collapsing*
- Auckland to see biggest PT improvements in six years
- First judicial review for the Minister of Transport
- Who benefits from secrecy around public infrastructure?
- Weekly Roundup 11-October-2024
- 130 years of growth in NZ cities
- Getting the rail network up to speed
- Talk Wellington takes a pause
- 2023 Census first look: how we travel to work and school
- Weekly Roundup 4-October-2024
- Throwback Thursday: a Low Traffic Neighbourhood by any other name…
- How will Auckland Council address the cycling budget shortfall?
- Stealth mode: the surprisingly powerful city-centre access hack
- Is this our least worldly Minister of Transport?
- Weekly Roundup 27-September-2024
- Minister ignored widespread concern about GPS
- Nine public transit lessons from Perth
- The Mayor’s Plan for Bridging the Harbour
- A vision for Swimmable Cities
- Weekly Roundup 20-September-2024
- Managing on-street parking for local benefit
- Postcard from Sydney: Southwest and City Metro extension
- Make it make sense: why axe valuable local projects?
- Why Entrust Needs New Leadership
- Weekly Roundup 13-September-2024
- Cross-party consensus: there’s no pipeline without good faith
- Northern Expressway Boondoggle
- Our transport planning system is fundamentally broken
- Could outdoor dining revitalise Queen Street?
- Weekly Roundup 6-September-2024
- Satisfying the Minister’s Speed Obsession
- What if we freed up our streets, again?
- NLTP 2024 released – destroying pipeline of shovel ready local projects
- Container trucks on local streets: why take the risk?
- Weekly Roundup 30-August-2024
- Throwback Thursday: The Great Auckland Transport Debate
- The Policy and Memory Vortex
- Northwest Busway Next Steps
- Neurodiversity in urbanism
- Weekly Roundup 23-August-2024
- The Government Declares Total War on Localism
- Speak up on the Emission Reduction Plan – by Sunday 25 August
- In praise of crosstown buses: refreshing the OuterLink
- Road Policing Reduction
- Weekly Roundup 16-August-2024
- Let your city flourish: mixing it up with mixed-use
- Auckland’s Frequent Transit Network hits 40 routes
- Congestion Pricing to move forward
- Te Ara Tukutuku Concept Plans
- Weekly Roundup 9-August-2024
- Three lessons for Auckland from Transport for London
- Road deaths are falling – let’s keep doing that
- Of Boundaries and Balance: Redrawing Auckland Council Wards
- A dream of roads for rail and streets for people
- Weekly Roundup 2-August-2024
- Which zones enable the most apartment projects?
- Could we “Ghentify” Auckland? A report from Velo-city 2024
- Parking up in the RLTP
- Weekly Roundup 26-July-2024
- Throwback Thursday – Thinking about Expressways
- Levelling up the Takaanini LXR project
- Waimahara: The Singing Spirit of Water
- A speed limit is not a target, and yet…
- Weekly Roundup 19-July-2024
- Connecting the dots and filling the gaps in our bike network
- A blanket of misinformation
- How the Northwest was lost and may be won
- City Centre Rebuild: How Soon Is Now?
- Weekly Roundup 12-July-2024
- By George! Splendid streets take shape down south
- Why is the Government flooring it on unsafe speeds?
- KiwiRail at Council’s Transport & Infrastructure Committee
- Going for Housing Growth: Filling the housing donut?
- Weekly Roundup 5-July-2024
- Speak up for safe speeds
- Government ignorant of local transport needs
- Water Streets: transport infrastructure that makes space for water
- Matariki on K’ Road: the proof is in the people
- Was the 2024 Auckland RLTP Competition Rigged?
- Some fine ideas for making Aotearoa safer
- June-24 AT Board Meeting
- Greater Auckland 2.0 – we need your help!
- Weekly Roundup 21-June-2024
- The Stadium Debate – What About the Transport Options?
- How good is the interim NW busway?
- Raised crossings: hearing the voice of vulnerable pedestrians
- You do have the power to change things
- Weekly Roundup 14-June-2024
- Our guide to having your say on the draft RLTP 2024
- Six ideas to secure Te Huia’s Future
- Building better housing insights
- In Defence of Kāinga Ora
- Weekly Roundup 7-June-2024
- A Better Broadway: Act 2
- A Better Broadway: Act 1
- Budget 2024 Highlights
- Weekly Roundup 31-May-24
- In praise of alleyways and paths through parks
- Gas Station watch
- Children’s Voices in Auckland’s Future
- May-24 AT Board Meeting
- Weekly Roundup 24-May-2024
- Photo of the Day: GNR
- How Government’s road obsession is ruining Auckland’s transport plans
- After much debate, the Auckland Future Fund was approved. So what should it be used for?
- Weekly Roundup 17-May-2024
- NZUP RORS back to life
- Wayne Brown’s PT Plan
- Will NZ Herald’s ‘poor journalism’ cost lives?
- Weekly Roundup 10-May-2024
- A few PT announcements
- The future of Te Huia
- On the LTP 2024 Feedback
- Weekly Roundup 3-May-2024
- New HOP readers for future payment options
- Auckland Rail Electrification 10 years old
- Tolling Existing Roads
- Western Express Success
- Weekly Roundup 19-April-2024
- Texas Lessons
- Long Tunnel or Long Con?
- Weekly Roundup 12-April-2024
- Subsidising illegal parking
- What’s happening with Airport to Botany
- Weekly Roundup 5-April-2024
- The Maddest March since COVID
- Success City
- NZ Government announces ban on walking
- Auckland Council’s astute feedback on the GPS
- Paying for the RoNS like Rail
- Climate change and the Draft GPS
- Have your say on the LTP and GPS this week
- Weekly Roundup 22-March-2024
- Rod Oram: a legacy to live up to
- New Life for Light Rail
- New Rail Operations Centre Promises Better Train Services
- Weekly Roundup 15-March-2024
- Solving traffic congestion with Richard Prebble
- AT Need To Lift Their Game
- Better Event Trains
- Weekly Roundup 8-March-2024
- The GPS is a disaster for local government
- The Government’s Ideological Transport Policy
- Should we build a bridge or tunnel across Cook Strait?
- Weekly Roundup 1-March-2024
- A Market Model for Intercity Rail
- It’s March Madness Time again
- February-24 AT Board Meeting
- Weekly Roundup 23-February-2024
- Auckland’s City Rail Link will fail immediately… in the best possible way
- Will the 2024 RLTP be yet another debacle?
- Weekly Roundup 16-February-2024
- Fuel Tax Fight and Rail Fail update
- Auckland’s Persistent Rail Issues
- The Government’s War on Auckland
- Weekly Roundup 9-February-2024
- Briefings to the Incoming Transport Minister (Simeon Brown)
- Weekly Roundup 2-February-2024
- What should be next for public transport in Auckland
- Why AT should aim high on raised crossings
- Weekly Roundup 26-January-2024
- 2023/24 Summer Rail Works Complete
- New Maps, Old Issues
- Weekly Roundup 19-January-2024
- Straightening the 25 route
- Light Rail officially dies
- 2024 – The Year Ahead
- 2023 – A Year in Review
- Weekly Roundup 22-December-2023
- Better enforcement will stop “bad parking cards”
- Guest Post: Huge Existential Threat For New Zealand’s Rail Network – Yet Again
- Weekly Roundup 15-December-2023
- The climate will (continue to) deliver its own advice
- “Brown-town”: the Wayne & Simeon show
- Weekly Roundup 8-December-2023
- Transport Agencies don’t want Harbour Tunnels
- CRL costs money but also provides huge benefits
- Weekly Roundup 1-December-2023
- Dangling Transport Solutions
- PT use up but fare increases coming
- The New Government’s Agreements
- Weekly Roundup 23-November-2023
- 21st Century City or 20th Century Carpark?
- Councillors: Sell the Downtown Carpark
- Making PT better by experiencing it
- Weekly Roundup 17-November-2023
- Congestion Pricing back on the agenda
- The Western Express is here
- Weekly Roundup 10-November-2023
- Walk or cycle to breathe fewer pollutants
- Waka Kotahi shows its true colours
- Weekly Roundup 3-November-2023
- Flashback: How rail was saved in Auckland
- October-23 AT Board Meeting
- Improving Wellesley St
- Weekly Roundup 27-October-2023
- Book Review: Paved Paradise
- AT looking to get the PT Basics right for growth
- Weekly Roundup 20-October-2023
- New train stations for the Upper North Waikato?
- Looking Back at Labour’s Transport Performance
- Weekly Roundup 13-October-2023
- 2023 Election Transport Policies
- Auckland Derailed – The Next Step
- Who Knew Hop Expires
- Weekly Roundup 06-October-2023
- Level Crossing Removal Groups
- How well do our Rapid Transit Stations perform
- North-western downgrades
- Weekly Roundup 29-September-2023
- Untangling South East Queensland’s Public Transport
- September-23 AT Board Meeting
- CRL Progress – Sep-23
- The Mayor and the ‘Manifesto for Auckland’
- Weekly Roundup 15-September-2023
- The Stadium Debate Again
- How will AT work with Council on the RLTP?
- Weekly Roundup 8-September-2023
- Improving Carrington Rd?
- Labour’s 2023 Election Transport Policy
- What we can expect in the Carrington (UNITEC) Development
- Weekly Roundup 1-September-2023
- Eastern Busway Stage 4 Consultation
- The Auckland Rapid Transit Plan
- August-23 AT Board Meeting
- Proper Northwest Rapid Transit On The Cards
- Weekly Roundup 25-August-2023
- Safer streets around schools: have your say by 28 August
- Light Rail’s Latest Plans for Onehunga and Mangere Town Centre
- AT Pulls the Parking Lever
- Ferry Bad News
- Weekly Roundup 18-August-2023
- The Buses Are Fixed
- Changing Auckland’s “Complex Transport Ecosystem”
- August’s Important Regional Consultations
- The Opportunity Cost of Auckland’s “Big Digs”
- Rail Safety and closing level crossings
- A vision for the Waterfront
- The Harbour Crossing Boondoggle
- Weekly Roundup 04-August-2023
- National’s 2023 Transport Policy
- 2023 Election transport policies we’d like to see
- Weekly Roundup 28-July-2023
- The Pothole Blame Game
- City Centre Transport Update – July-23
- Weekly Roundup 21-July-2023
- The Future Development Strategy
- ATs 2023-2031 Public Transport Plan
- The Bicycle as Climate Hope
- Weekly Roundup 13-July-2023
- Con Job: AT’s Connected Communities debacle
- The latest bus strike
- Western Line is double tracked again
- Weekly Roundup 7-July-2023
- Government encourages illegal parking
- The inter-regional rail inquiry report
- Liberating a Lane stacks up
- Weekly Roundup 30-June-2023
- Fares and Fuel to go back up
- June-23 AT Board Meeting
- AT’s Capital Programme for 2023/24
- Groundhog Day: will AT finally do the right thing on Great North Road?
- Weekly Roundup 23-June-2023
- Light Rail back to the Surface?
- Puhoi to Warkworth opens
- Pedestrian Level Crossing Closure Proposals
- Weekly Roundup 16-June-2023
- It’s time to update parking fines
- Perth’s Rail Journey – from (near) zero to hero
- Pick up the ball and run, AT!
- Weekly Roundup 9-June-2023
- A Hobsonville Rd Cycleway
- The Cost of Cars
- Liberate the Lane on the Auckland Harbour Bridge!
- Weekly Roundup 2-June-2023
- The future of the Medium Density Residential Standards
- Removing the Takanini Level Crossings
- May-23 AT Board Meeting
- National’s Housing Policy Backtrack
- Weekly Roundup 26-May-2023
- CRL Delay Implications for Other Projects
- The end in sight for bus disruption?
- Budget 2023 Highlights
- Weekly Roundup 19-May-2023
- Taking Resilience More Seriously
- AT’s Hobson St consultation with a difference
- Christchurch to finally get Rapid Transit?
- Weekly Roundup 12-May-2023
- It’s time to shine a light on Golden Triangle rail
- Auckland Rain Déjà Vu
- It’s finally time to properly reform KiwiRail
- Weekly Roundup 05-May-2023
- New Values of Time and Life
- Penlink to be Tolled
- Auckland’s Future Transport Projects Consultation
- Wellington rail in the news: on track, and off
- Weekly Roundup 28-April-2023
- Lower North Island Passenger Rail – a tragedy in two parts
- The options considered for the Onehunga Line
- Weekly Roundup 21-April-2023
- Avondale Open Streets – Success
- AT Parks Some of Its Parking Strategy
- Karangahape Done Right
- Reasons to be optimistic about Auckland Transport
- Weekly Roundup 14-April-2023
- Ridership reaches 80 per cent
- Optimising The Strand
- Weekly Roundup – Easter Edition
- Auckland’s Bus Cancellation Crisis Visualised
- Construction for next stage of Eastern Busway starts
- What to do about the Northern Busway
- Leaked emails reveal plan to turn light-rail into a road tunnel
- Weekly Roundup 31-March-2023
- Harbour Crossing Project now estimated to cost $15-25 billion
- Te Hā Noa to Start Construction
- Warkworth and the Cost of Sprawl
- March-23 AT Board Meeting
- Weekly Roundup 24-March-2023
- A miracle pill for our transport ills
- It’s Raining Congestion
- Auckland Council Draft Budget – an unnecessary backwards step
- The motorways are finished
- CRL’s COVID Cost Change
- Government speeds away from the evidence
- Is Auckland Light Rail getting even more off-track?
- Weekly Roundup 10-March-2023
- CRL progress – Mar-23
- Flashback Wednesday: Where do we put our fury and our grief?
- Who doesn’t want to build back better?
- Submit on the Upper Harbour Cycleway Redesign
- Weekly Roundup 03-March-2023
- Initial direction for the next Government Policy Statement released
- New AT chief executive faces existential challenges
- Make buses better to combat March Madness
- 8 Big Questions for AT’s Board
- February-23 AT Board Meeting
- Weekly Roundup 24-February-2023
- AT’s PT plan needs an injection of aspiration
- Unpause the Inner West
- Reducing the costs of PT projects
- Weekly Roundup 17-February-2023
- Expressways and Resilience
- An AT PT update and ATAP by another name
- We need to stop the PT network from slipping
- Weekly Roundup 10-February-2023
- My very first e-bike
- Waterproofing the City
- Managing our stormwater
- Weekly Roundup 03-February-2023
- Government confirms a light rail rethink
- After the deluge – initial thoughts on the Auckland floods
- Weekly Roundup 27-January-2023
- The Mayor on Light Rail
- NIMBYs go BANANAs over young singles in their area
- What are the Rail Network Shutdown Outcomes?
- A different Tunnelled Light Rail Option
- Weekly Roundup 20-January-2023
- Improving AT’s responses to PT disruption
- Rail buses are a pain – but they don’t have to be
- Whatever happened to AT’s “Statements of Imagination”?
- Flashback Saturday: How to fund the CFN and save $14 billion
- Weekly Roundup 13-January-2023
- We need to step up on road safety, not cut targets
- 2023 – The Year Ahead
- 2022 – A Year in Review
- Flashback Saturday: A Congestion Free Network
- Waka Kotahi’s Harbour Bridge Walk and Wheel Events
- Are the NW Bus Improvements that much of an improvement?
- Flashback Saturday: the (rubbish) Integrated Transport Programme
- Weekly Roundup 16-December-2022
- Wayne Brown’s Letter of Expectation to AT
- Auckland needs infrastructure investment to support intensification
- Transport Plan Déjà vu
- Eastern Busway Government Funding Top Up
- Flashback Saturday: Why AWHC is the stupidest transport project ever
- Weekly Roundup 09-December-2022
- Time to rethink Light Rail
- Higher fares and fewer buses on the way?
- CRL Day One plans
- The Transport Choices Package
- Flashback Saturday: AT’s New CEO (again)
- Weekly Roundup 02-December-2022
- The Impact of Half Priced Fares
- Strong support for the Inner West Street Improvements Projects
- December-22 AT Board Meeting
- Auckland Derailed – Southern Line mitigation
- Weekly Roundup 25-November-2022
- Who pays when roads and parking are “free” to use?
- New Drury Stations Design Consultation
- Why we should upgrade Swanson, not Henderson for the CRL
- Weekly Roundup 18-November-2022
- Auckland, Derailed – The Documents
- Resource management reform moves to next phase
- Auckland Council’s new governance structure
- New Harbour Crossing Survey
- Weekly Roundup 11-November-2022
- Why extend the Wynyard Tram?
- A few more ideas to plug the council’s revenue gap
- The real work begins for Auckland Council
- Mode share isn’t set in stone
- Weekly Roundup 04 November 2022
- Kidical Mass: the future on wheels
- A minimum viable light rail for Auckland
- AT to remove cancelled buses from timetables
- Mapping changes in Auckland’s youngish adult population
- Concerning news coming out of Auckland Transport
- A visit to Karanga-a-hape
- A new National Ticketing System
- Wayne Brown’s expectations of AT
- Flashback Saturday: The next decade
- Weekly Roundup 21-October-2022
- Inter-Regional Rail Inquiry Submission
- Public transport in Auckland is beyond a joke right now
- Shifting Freight from Road to Rail
- European cities were once as car-choked as ours
- Flashback Saturday: The Last Decade
- Weekly Roundup 14-October-2022
- Auckland Derailed – Surprise Edition
- The Upper Harbour Options
- Staying on track during railway closures
- Dear Wayne
- 2022 Council Election Results
- Flashback Saturday: Better cities mean a wealthier New Zealand
- Weekly Roundup 07-October-2022
- Auckland, Derailed – Part 2
- A map of Auckland’s Frequent Transit Network in 2025
- Auckland, Derailed
- Henderson and Rathgar Cycle Consultation
- Flashback Saturday: NW Busway update
- Weekly Roundup 30-September-2022
- Lifting our game for systems change – project by project
- PT Ridership is starting to recover – again
- The government’s performance on transport – 5 years on
- Flashback Saturday: Freeing us from traffic
- Weekly Roundup 23-September-22
- Midtown Streets Regeneration starting soon
- Temporary Traffic Management for a better city
- Vote, March and Motivate
- Submit on Reshaping Streets
- Flashback Saturday: Auckland’s city centre is getting more diverse
- Weekly Roundup 16-September-2022
- Neighbourhoods: the missing ingredient
- Here, have some hardcore fantasising
- The Notified Unitary Plan Revision
- Activity Classes are not the Strategic Direction
- Flashback Saturday: Auckland can’t afford to price out its young
- Weekly Roundup 09-September-2022
- No Mobility / No Travel
- Streets for People: more agile projects on the way
- We need a smarter response from the Auckland Business Chamber
- Building Consents in July-22
- Weekly Roundup 02-September-2022
- Southern Level Crossing Removal
- Small steps towards a level playing field
- Too little, too late: what now for safety?
- Cycling over Auckland’s harbour(s)
- Flashback Saturday: Ridesharing is making traffic worse
- Weekly Roundup 26-August-2022
- Bikes vs cars (per capita)
- August-22 AT Board Meeting
- Getting [some] cars out of [part of] Queen Street – Part 2
- Turning over a new leaf
- Flashback Saturday: City Rail Link to be future-proofed
- Weekly Roundup 19-August-2022
- Taking a trip with Germany’s €9 ticket
- The Sustainable Public Transport Framework
- The TERP: A Pathway to a Flourishing Future
- Inter-Regional Rail Inquiry
- Flashback Saturday: Good Density
- Weekly Roundup 12-August-2022
- AA Congestion Charge Survey
- Removing red tape to make it easier to reshape streets
- Can a different route fix tunneled light rail?
- Flashback Saturday: The “Progressive NIMBY” conundrum
- Weekly Roundup 05-August-2022
- Upping safety on Upper Harbour Drive
- Tunnel Vision vs the Big Picture
- More Homes vs Light Rail
- Why we need to reduce VKT
- Flashback Saturday: Road Building Brouhaha
- Weekly roundup 29-July-2022
- How To Fix Cars
- A Greater Gt North Rd Coming Soon
- The latest on Airport to Botany
- A seawall with a cycleway on top
- Flashback Saturday: Auckland Transport’s Parking Nonsense
- Weekly Roundup 22-July-2022
- Federal St Stage 2 Complete
- Supporting Sprawl in the North
- Efeso Collins’ Transport Policy
- Ferry Changes and Fuel Tax discount extension
- Flashback Saturday: Road to Zero – the new road safety strategy
- Weekly Roundup 15-July-2022
- A Hollow Victory for Auckland Council
- Cancelled Buses
- Waikato Expressway Speed Limit Raising
- Biofuels in New Zealand – A Solution or a Problem?
- Flashback Saturday: The power of disruption
- Weekly Roundup 08-July-2022
- Clearing the Air on Vision Zero
- Getting [some] cars out of [part of] Queen Street
- Viv Beck’s Transport Policy
- Regional Trains and Electrification
- Weekly Roundup 01-July-2022
- June AT Board Meeting
- The real barriers to road safety
- Light Rail’s Sponsored Defence
- Abolish Zoning?
- Weekly Roundup 23-June-22
- What’s happening with PT ridership
- Penlink To Start
- The Onehunga Line Change
- Weekly Roundup 17-June-2022
- Ain’t no party like a car-truck party
- Minister, while you’re there
- Another cycleway beat-up
- Switching sides: Sweden did it, should we?
- Weekly Roundup 10-June-2022
- Downtown Bus Interchange Closes Again
- A tale of two paths
- Why cities should make space for urban green
- Weekly Roundup 03-June-2022
- Queen Street’s Nine Lives
- How many people need to die for Auckland Transport to act?
- Pushing past the barriers to the Auckland Harbour Bridge
- AA calls for more roads
- Weekly roundup 27-May-2022
- A HOP too far? The end of cash fares
- Why is this still happening in 2022?
- Don’t Look Up
- Budget 2022 Highlights
- Weekly Roundup 20-May-2022
- A walk to the park
- Supporting Sprawl in the Northwest and Warkworth
- The Emissions Reduction Plan
- What we expect and want to see from the ERP
- A harbour Gondola?
- Would AT Rethink the Eastern Busway?
- Congestion Pricing Green Light?
- CRL Final Station Designs and Names
- Protecting Tāmaki Makaurau’s Urban Character
- Weekly Roundup 06-May-2022
- Committing to the CAM-PBC
- Unpicking the method behind Council’s SCA assessments
- We need to build our bike network much cheaper and faster
- More on Maioro
- Weekly Roundup 29-April-2022
- Northern Busway Extension Opens Soon
- Electric Ferries for Auckland
- A Proposition for East Auckland
- Weekly roundup 22-April-2022
- Time to end our safer speeds experiment?
- Unitary Plan 2.0 Pre-consultation
- Through-Routing Buses
- Weekly roundup 14-April-2022
- Luxon’s Subsidy Slip
- From newsflash to carwash: climate coverage in the media
- Clean Car Scheme now live, now include e-bikes
- Weekly Roundup 8-April-2022
- New North Rd Consultation Closes Tomorrow
- What about a Wairau Valley Station?
- West Auckland’s proposed new ‘New Network’
- We need better PT to go with the cheaper fares
- The End of Greater Auckland
- New Lynn to Avondale: a peek through the chain-link fence
- March-22 AT Board Meeting
- ATs Parking Strategy Refresh nears Consultation
- Regional Public Transport
- Weekly Roundup 25-March-2022
- Wanted: Change Agent
- The IEAs 10-Point Plan for less oil
- Trucks not paying ‘fair share
- Delivering Climate Action in Auckland
- Weekly Roundup 18-March-2022
- AT’s Coronial Rebuke
- Auckland’s emerging, but sadly ignored, Rapid Transit Plan
- Government Drops PT Fares and Fuel Tax
- Genuine Streets for People
- Weekly Roundup 11-March-2022
- Bus changes for Rosedale Station
- High Fuel Prices Highlight Why We Need Better Alternatives
- Where do we put our fury and our grief?
- Building Local
- Weekly roundup 04-March-2022
- Speed Limit Consultation – Phase 3
- “No, Minister”
- A Newer New North Road
- The Pros and Cons of past CRL proposals
- Weekly Roundup 25-February-2022
- A Ferry Impractical Idea
- February-22 AT Board Meeting
- A New Commissioner for Active Travel
- Making the Unitec Development Fit for the Future
- Weekly Roundup 18-February-2022
- Is Hydrogen New Zealand’s Next Big Thing?
- Next steps for light rail
- Tinkering with rather than Transforming of our City Arterials
- The Light Rail Indicative Business Case
- Weekly Roundup 11-February-2022
- A case of creeping scope creep…
- Local Walking and Cycling Bridges
- Beyond pandemic streets
- Weekly Roundup 4-Feb-2022
- Why is nothing happening with Bus Improvements to the Northwest?
- The East Tamaki Industrial Area
- Sooo… Tunnelled Light Rail
- Weekly Roundup 28-Jan-2022
- We should not accept any road deaths
- What I’m looking out for in the government’s light-rail announcement
- A Safer Course
- The future of cars is electric, but our future is not cars
- Weekly roundup 21-January-2022
- Penlink Tolling Consultation
- Lifting Vision Zero from footnote to top of mind
- Turning the Waka Around
- 2022 Rail Shutdown Nearly Over
- Ferry Fail
- Waka Kotahi scared of too much mode shift
- 2022 – The Year Ahead
- 2021 – A Year in Review
- AT’s CEO Resigns
- Eastern Busway Opens
- Weekly Roundup 17-December-2021
- Alternative Futures of Parking Buildings: Part One
- Bring on the Density
- Let’s Discuss Priorities
- PT: When things go wrong
- Weekly roundup 10-December-2021
- The challenge for urban agriculture in Auckland
- December-21 AT Board Meeting
- Streets for People [take two]: 2021-2024
- Goff’s Climate Package
- Weekly Roundup 3-December-2021
- Debunking Leafy Suburban Myths
- Is Tunnelled Light Rail the Worst of Both Worlds?
- How to get to the beach (without ruining it for everyone)
- Why is street innovation so hard?
- Weekly Roundup 26-November-2021
- AT Making Painted Cycle Lanes Safer
- An anti-housing Trojan horse
- Mode-shifting services and deliveries
- Eastern Busway Stage 2 Design Consultation
- Weekly Roundup 19-November-2021
- What’s wrong with this picture
- Your next car should be a bike
- AT Parking’s tail vigorously wagging the strategy dog
- Lessons for Light Rail from City Rail Link’s Past
- Weekly Roundup 12-November-2021
- The Papakura to Pukekohe upgrade
- Futile Councillors Fight An Affordable Future
- The Minister’s View on Light Rail
- ATs Parking Strategy Review Strategic Direction
- Weekly Roundup 05-November-2021
- Creating green density with Ecological Build Zones
- Seeing the light on Light Rail
- Wellington’s latest transport plans
- Liveable Arterials
- Light rail veers off course
- The Shift to Secrecy is Damaging Transport Outcomes
- October-21 AT Board Meeting
- Yes! We can do all those sorts of things.
- Weekly Roundup 22-October-2021
- Who will turn the transport supertanker around?
- The Great Intensification
- Improving the speed of our trains and access to them
- The Entrust Election – Climate, Democracy and Better Streets
- Weekly Roundup 15-October-2021
- Students Reinventing Northcote
- Draft Emissions Reduction Plan released
- What might the playful city look like?
- Auckland Transport’s 2021 Speed Limit Change Proposal
- Weekly Roundup 08-October-2021
- Clawing Back the Cost of Sprawl
- Using Deliberative Democracy to explore the future of Auckland’s water supply
- Why is induced demand still ignored?
- Northern Pathway dies
- Weekly Roundup 01-October-2021
- September-21 Board Meeting
- Kid’s-eye view of a waterfront ride
- Midtown Regeneration
- How do our Fares Compare
- Weekly Roundup 24-September-2021
- The Latest Queen St Design
- Kāpiti Coast and Horowhenua – Planning for a High Carbon Future
- Auckland Light Rail suggest Light Rail in Auckland
- Auckland Transport Protects Children From Mandarin Hazard
- Weekly Roundup 17-September-2021
- A test case for Vision Zero and climate action in Mt Roskill
- Shining a Light into some Dark Places
- Levin to Wellington, one EMU at a time
- Everyone Should Care About Urbanism, and Here’s Why
- Weekly Roundup 10-September-2021
- Branding our Rapid Transit Network
- The National Land Transport Programme 2021-24
- Road pricing: a boost for Auckland’s transit?
- A Low Traffic Neighbourhood by any other name…
- Weekly Roundup 3-September-2021
- Pricing and Rail Operators
- Would You Like Cars with That?
- New in the Neighbourhood
- How we’d build Light Rail
- Weekly roundup 27-Aug-2021
- Nothing is happening in Auckland’s city centre
- August-21 AT Board Meeting
- An Alternative North Shore Rail Crossing Route
- The Ministry of Education
- Weekly Roundup 20-Aug-21
- Lockdown streets: here we go again
- What caused our rail network problems
- A Mill Rd Alternative
- Turbo-charging the TERP
- Weekly Roundup 13-Aug-21
- Regional Streets for People
- Glen Innes to Tamaki Dr Path – Section 4
- The Crosstown Light Rail Option
- An Onewa Interchange
- Weekly Roundup – 6-Aug-21
- Towards a Compact City, with Glorious Trees
- Northern Pathway ‘rethink’ on the cards
- Cullen on Climate and Light Rail
- AT’s heavy-handed enforcement… of the WRONG problem
- Weekly Roundup 30-07-21
- July-21 AT Board Meeting
- Northwest Bus Improvements Start
- What Auckland can teach the world about post-covid ridership
- Puhinui Reopens
- Weekly Roundup – 23-July-21
- Safety on Ash St & Rata St – but not for bikes
- Is there a case for an overnight sleeper train between Auckland and Wellington?
- Green Tracking of Light Rail in Auckland
- Council Slams AT but the Excuses Keep Coming
- Weekly Roundup – 16-July-21
- Artistic licence: framing the future
- Urbanism for women: what is, and what could be
- Innovating Streets, inviting perspectives
- The Plan for Buses in the City Centre
- Weekly Roundup – 09-July-21
- A proposal of preposterous audacity
- Queen St – Why is this so hard
- Long distance passenger rail
- Meaningless Light Rail Engagement
- Weekly Roundup 2-July-21
- Improving the Regional Land Transport Plan
- Papakāinga and the future of housing on Whenua Māori
- Auckland Council is planning for Unaffordability
- Urban Playground: the child-friendly city
- Weekly Roundup 25-June-21
- Setting of Speed Limits 2021
- We should add Rapid Transit to the Northern Pathway
- Don’t stop at the kerb: why Tactical Urbanism should pull infrastructure apart
- Mode Shift and Meaningful Climate Action: A Case Study
- Weekly Roundup – 18-June-21
- Still Alone Together: post-lockdown loneliness in Aotearoa and its implications for urban design
- An Active Minister for Active Modes
- Climate Commission’s Advice and the Clean Car Programme
- Auckland Rapid Transit Plan Guidance for Light Rail
- Weekly Roundup – 11-June-21
- DeafScape
- New Zealand’s Input to the UN on Safety
- The NZ Upgrade Blowout
- Weekly Roundup – 4-June-21
- Learning From Europe’s New Urban Politics
- The rise of the urban light truck: what to do about it?
- Low traffic life, the Amsterdam way
- Establishing a Carbon Neutral Government Programme
- Weekly Roundup – 28-May-21
- Liberate the Lane Rally on Sunday
- Using Streets Differently (Sometimes)
- DIY Safety
- Is Driving the new smoking?
- Weekly Roundup – 21-May-21
- Our Response to the Inquiry into congestion pricing in Auckland
- The Challenges of Working in the Road Corridor
- A shuttle for the Onehunga Branch Line?
- Ministry of Transport’s views on reducing emissions
- Weekly Roundup – 14-May-21
- Pop-Up Radwege (Cycleways)
- Fully realising the benefits of CRL
- Low-traffic neighbourhoods: which way for Arthur-Grey?
- Making a Fair Light Rail/Metro Comparison
- Weekly Roundup – 07-May-20
- What’s the plan for bikes and scooters on Queen St?
- The Auckland Harbour Bridge clip-ons, planning disaster… or best practice?
- AT’s latest PT and Bike Numbers
- The fight for Queen St
- Weekly Roundup – 30-Apr-21
- NZ Upgrade Programme review a blessing in disguise
- Apr-21 AT Board Meeting
- The RLTP’s core flaw: “holding VKT steady”
- Weekly Roundup – 23-Apr-21
- Guest Post: A interim option for an Auckland Harbour Bridge footpath and cycleway?
- Transmission Gully PPP Review
- Queen St makeover
- Improving Te Huia
- Weekly Roundup – 16-Apr-21
- Guest Post: Why bike lanes need to be designed for women
- What if Landlords Built Hot New Things?
- Will Free Public Transport help achieve our goals?
- The Downtown Carpark – AT Created a Debacle
- Weekly Roundup – 09-Apr-21
- Taking rail to the North Shore
- Guest Post: School Strike 4 Climate Demands For Auckland Council
- Chief Post Office Reopens as Britomart Entrance
- Light Rail Next Steps
- Auckland Transport to actually build cycleways
- Redeveloping the Downtown Carpark
- The Feedback Loop
- Light Rail Trade-offs
- Weekly Roundup – 26-Mar-21
- A Greater Gt North Rd
- The Housing Donut
- Where to next for Skypath?
- The Climate Change Commission’s draft advice
- The Long Term Plan 2021
- Weekly Roundup – 19-Mar-21
- Better Renting through New Housing Models
- Swanson Rd Safety
- Speeding Buses
- What’s wrong with ATAP
- Weekly Roundup – 12-Mar-20
- The PT Slump
- There’s Gold in Them There Roads
- We need better Trucks
- So we’re back to Unhealthy Streets, then?
- Weekly Roundup – 5-Mar-20
- Manurewa (Area 2) Safety Improvements Project
- The NPS and the upzoning of the city
- ATAP cannot be a 2018 plan for a 2021 world
- The Harbour Bridge is not falling down
- Weekly Roundup 26-Feb-21
- Enforce and extend the bus/transit lanes
- Feb-21 AT Board Meeting
- Bikes and Advertising
- New Drury Stations planned for auto-dependency
- Weekly Roundup – 19-Feb-21
- Wellesley St bus lanes proposal
- NIMBY Bingo!
- How big is our Housing Shortfall?
- HOP SHOP FLOP
- Weekly Roundup – 12-Feb-21
- Double is Nothing
- Cut and cover spaghetti junction?
- A Climate-Ready RLTP (no litigation required)
- Weekly Roundup – 05-Feb-21
- Getting Sign Off
- Changing Queen St in the news again
- Climate Commission’s advice on getting to zero emissions
- Weekly Roundup – 29-Jan-21
- AT comes right on Devonport
- The State of the Nation’s Houses
- Upgrading New North Rd and Symonds Street
- After six years, will 2021 finally see real progress for light rail?
- Weekly Roundup – 22-Jan-21
- PT Changes and AT bringing forward Electric Buses
- Henderson Cycle Network Consultation
- Auckland’s PT fare changes for 2021
- We won’t have ‘good PT’ if we don’t enforce bus lanes
- Weekly Roundup – 15-Jan-21
- Of Trees and Housing
- Recent Road Safety Discussions
- The Penlink Question – two or four?
- 2021 – The Year Ahead
- 2020 – A Year in Review
- Tourist cycling success, now do it in the cities
- Te Komititanga and views from the past
- Time to rethink Mill Rd
- Weekly Roundup – 18-Dec-20
- Briefings to the new Transport Minister Part 2
- Briefings to the new Transport Minister
- Highway Cost Blowouts
- Does Auckland intensification mean Soviet tower block apartments?
- Weekly Roundup – 11-Dec-20
- Dec-20 AT Board Meeting
- Waka Kotahi’s new ‘National Parking Management Guidance’
- AT, it’s your responsibility to make roads safe
- Supporting Sprawl in the Northwest
- Weekly Roundup – 04-Dec-20
- Light Rail process rebuke
- Guest Post: Michael Wood, Minister of Transport
- The Congestion Question Report
- The 2020 Consultation Season
- Weekly Roundup – 27-Nov-20
- A better Mission Bay for everyone (is now possible)
- Frustrating Missed Opportunities
- A waterfront open to people
- The Latest Harbour Crossing Options
- Weekly Roundup – 20-Nov-20
- Masks on PT from today
- AT need to up their consultation game
- What the model says about decarbonising transport
- Household Emissions in NZ (part 2 – transport)
- Weekly Roundup – 13-Nov-20
- Bringing forward the RTN
- Forming Policy on Low Traffic Neighbourhoods
- Building Consent Surge
- Light rail and light metro, why not both?
- Weekly Roundup – 06-Nov-20
- Taking the sprawl out of our transport plans
- A new Transport Minister
- NZTA Confirm Rail Harbour Crossing Needed First
- Latest city and employment numbers
- Weekly Roundup – 30-Oct-20
- The Drury Problem
- Are we doing enough?
- Oct-20 AT Board Meeting
- Weekly Roundup – 23-Oct-20
- East St Cycle surprise
- Narrow Lanes are a good thing
- The Auckland Freight Plan
- What we need the new government to deliver over the next 3 years
- Weekly Roundup – 16-Oct-20
- Auckland Election Transport Policy Roundup
- Why we need additional networks
- AT’s St Heliers shambles
- Household Emissions in NZ (part 1 – housing)
- Flashback Saturday: Commuter rail or rapid transit?
- Weekly Roundup – 09-Oct-20
- School Traffic
- What to do about Public Transport in Devonport
- How much we’re really doing for walking and cycling
- An Upper Harbour Ferry Line?
- Flashback Saturday: The Rail Development Plan
- Weekly Roundup – 02-Oct-20
- Who’s afraid of the big bad body corp?
- Greens Transport Policy for 2020
- Northwest Bus improvements detailed
- Rail Harbour Crossing Route Options
- Flashback Saturday: Improving the Northern Busway
- Weekly Roundup – 25-Sep-20
- Waihorotiu / Queen St Valley pilot coming
- The Harbour Bridge Response
- Upcoming PT changes
- Harbour Bridge Damage implications
- Flashback Saturday: The REAL Cost of Cars
- Weekly Roundup – 18-Sep-20
- Rail Disruption – Inner Southern Line next
- Airport to Botany and the problem of Flat Bush
- Public Transport use during Lockdown Two
- EVs in the bus lanes – not this again
- Flashback Sunday: Draft 2009 Auckland Transport Plan
- Weekly Roundup – 11-Sep-20
- Mind That Child
- Truckers: Fix the roads
- The Waterview Path: Resilient Design in the context of Covid-19 Lockdown
- The missing COVID transformation
- Weekly Roundup – 04-Sep-20
- The Light Rail Document Dump
- Innovating Streets Round 2 Outcomes
- Death, Taxes …… and highways
- Is transport modelling junk science?
- Weekly Roundup – 28-Aug-20
- Buying the Light Metro IP
- The initial case for faster trains between Auckland and Hamilton
- Lockdown extension and Mask Requirements on PT
- The CRL makes rail competitive off-peak
- Weekly Roundup – 21-Aug-20
- The things we should be copying from Sweden
- Conserving Aggregate
- The $1.1b Rail Network Works
- The Forty Decision-Makers
- Weekly Roundup – 14-Aug-20
- CCO Review: change coming to transport in Auckland