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- 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
- 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
- Alert Level 3
- 2018 Census Commuting Data
- 2020 Election transport policies we’d like to see
- Weekly Roundup – 07-Aug-20
- What are trackless trams
- The Political Economy of Car Dependence
- Post COVID Transport Numbers till the end of July
- 3 years on, where’s Auckland’s Cycling revolution?
- Weekly Roundup – 31-July-2020
- Is the Lake Rd upgrade over?
- National’s ‘blast from the past’ approach to rapid transit
- Auckland’s Climate Plan
- Supercharging Urban Development
- Weekly Roundup – 24-July 2020
- How Should Housing Affordability Be Defined?
- Integrated ferries
- Auckland’s ‘shovel ready’ transport projects announced
- National’s $60 Billion+ Transport boondoggle
- Flashback Sunday: NZTA confirm Harbour Crossing road project is a waste of money
- Weekly Roundup – 17-July 2020
- Yet Another Port Report
- Council votes tomorrow on budget
- Getting the little things right
- A Tale of a Split City
- Weekly Roundup – 10-July 2020
- Getting on with Queen St – but get the cars out
- COVID-19 AND AN RTN(-LITE)
- Building Up or Out – US and UK examples
- Getting better use out of Park & Ride
- Sunday reading on housing 5 July 2020
- Weekly Roundup – 03-July-2020
- The Housing Continuum
- The Power of Disruption
- City Centre (and other) speed limits have now changed
- Alternative ways of achieving airport goals
- Weekly Roundup – 26-June-2020
- Light Rail dies but Light Metro may return
- Innovating Streets Round 1 Outcomes – Auckland “Falls Short”
- From Ugly Car Parks to Loved Buildings
- Auckland’s Busiest Bus Routes
- Weekly Roundup – 19-June-2020
- The Framework for Housing Quality
- Speeding up (some) consents
- Unitec Development Details Emerge
- Submit on the Council’s Emergency Budget
- Weekly Roundup – 12-June-2020
- Is Auckland getting its ‘Fair’ share?
- Housing after the Lockdown
- Increasing PT use after we’re back to ‘normal’
- Appointment of Auckland Council Chief Executive
- Weekly Roundup – 05-June-2020
- What longer-term transport impacts might Covid-19 have?
- Alert to Changing Default Speeds
- Council’s massive budget cut
- Weekly Roundup – 29-May-2020
- The next ATAP
- Dialing in the Southern Growth corridors
- Choosing between Subsidised taxis and buses
- Improving our central isthmus corridors
- Weekly Roundup – 22-May-2020
- Takapuna Town Centre Concept Design
- COVID transport impacts
- The 1point5 project
- Fighting for scraps on accessible streets
- Flashback Saturday: How everything went wrong for Auckland
- Weekly Roundup – 15-May-20
- Deconstructing the RTF
- Electrifying the Recovery
- Is CRL still value for money?
- Submissions due for GPS 2021
- Flashback Saturday: Probing cost-benefit analyses
- Weekly Roundup – 08-May-20
- AT starting to progress the Eastern Busway to Botany
- Time’s up for PPPs
- Priorities on display
- City Centre Masterplan now online
- Flashback Saturday: CBD Rail Tunnel Study Announced
- Weekly Roundup – 01-May-20
- Visions for the future of rail
- The Tourism Taskforce
- AT steps up to deliver COVID emergency works
- Weekly Roundup – 24-Apr-20
- Mar-20 Ridership – starting the descent
- Optimising the road network
- Getting the freight out of the town
- The Great Upskilling
- Weekly Roundup – 17-Apr-20
- NZTA’s Proposal to Fix the Berm Parking Problem
- Auckland’s post COVID-19 Stimulus List
- Why we shouldn’t upgrade Henderson for the CRL
- Weekly Roundup – 09-Apr-20
- Time To Give Up The Metro Fantasy And Bring back Light Rail
- Innovating Streets
- Warkworth to Wellsford Consent
- Better long distance coaches – design, regulation and community public health
- What happened to the Cycleway?
- Planning the post COVID-19 Stimulus
- New Skypath-Seapath consultation
- The Climate Commission – Expert Advice for our Economic Recovery
- COVID-19 Update: time to stay at home
- Mar-20 AT Board Meeting
- Feb-19 Ridership
- COVID-19: now requires physical distancing on public transport
- Weekly Roundup – 20-Mar-20
- The Government’s new Transport Policy Statement for 2021
- You can keep using PT (for now)
- 2018 Census Travel to Work results
- Auckland’s Low Traffic Neighbourhood Plan
- Flashback Saturday: 2010-2040 RLTS – finally a good transport strategy?
- Weekly Roundup – 13-Mar-20
- Getting to 300 million trips in a decade
- Light Rail Key Decisions
- Accessible Streets regulation changes
- Tūāraki – city stations
- Flashback Saturday: Small steps towards a Northwest Busway
- Weekly Roundup – 06-Mar-20
- Lightpath to the Waterfront: time to ungap the map! (feedback by 8 March)
- Finding a constructive way forward for light-rail
- Jan-20 Ridership
- Reducing Traffic
- Flashback Saturday: Transport trends and issues
- Weekly Roundup – 28-Feb-20
- Ensuring we don’t fall into the ‘Transurban trap’
- SkyPath and Seapath moving ahead
- Auckland’s Wonderful Long-Distance Bus Terminal
- Thinking about expressways
- Flashback Saturday: Stop blaming pedestrians for getting killed
- Weekly Roundup – 21-Feb-20
- Milan – a Transport Revolution
- Refreshed City Centre Master Plan is shaping up
- Dec-19 Ridership
- The Human Right to Housing
- Flashback Saturday: Stu Donovan on housing
- Weekly Roundup – 14-Feb-20
- Is the busway extension on the right side at Albany?
- Night Train
- Feb-20 AT Board Meeting
- 20/20 Vision on Housing
- Weekly Roundup – 7-Feb-20
- Studying cities in Amsterdam
- The NZ Rail Legislation Bill – submissions close Friday
- News Year’s Eve 2019
- THIS IS NOT A DRILL
- Flashback Saturday – Shedding light on Auckland’s population density
- Weekly Roundup – 31-Jan-20
- The NZ Upgrade transport package
- What we may see in the infrastructure announcement today
- City Centre works disruption
- Weekly Roundup – 24-Jan-20
- Light Rail Update for January
- Communicating bus diversions
- Reinventing Auckland using Lessons from Ghent
- Auckland Transport’s weird obsession with subsidising Devonport taxis
- Flashback Saturday – Australasian patronage trends
- Weekly Roundup 17-Jan-20
- Auckland’s PT fare changes for 2020
- Moving Responsibility Upwards
- Nov-19 Ridership
- Proposed Staging for the NW RTN
- Flashback Saturday – Housing affordability and sprawl
- Weekly Roundup 10-Jan-20
- It’s time to increase traffic fines
- Speeding up Wellington Buses
- A History of Auckland’s urban form
- Road Deaths in 2019
- Flashback Saturday: Re-analysing the City Rail Link’s benefits
- 2020 – The year ahead
- 2010s – A decade in Review
- 2019 – A Year in Review
- Guest Post – The politics of transport: messaging
- Will Auckland Transport botch up New Year’s (again)?
- Flashback Saturday: How should we allocate transport funds?
- Weekly Roundup 20-Dec-19
- Sydney’s new light rail
- Parks and Recreation
- Better Travel Choices – a plan for accelerating mode shift in Auckland
- Keeping Cities Moving – is NZTA finally getting its act together?
- Flashback Saturday – Farnham Street residents looking at each other down the barrel of a gun
- Weekly Roundup 13-Dec-19
- Time for a Transition Fund?
- Bus to the Beach
- Wellington rail upgrades underway
- Dec-19 Bus disruption
- Flashback Saturday – Removing the Dominion/New North interchange?
- Weekly Roundup 6-Dec-19
- Consultation Crunch 2.0
- Planning for Air Travel
- Dec-19 AT Board Meeting
- Getting on with Rapid Transit to the Northwest
- Flashback Saturday: Our street network working against us
- Weekly Roundup 29-Nov-19
- Legless Crossings
- Italy – Tolls and Trains
- City centre employment keeps growing
- Should we rip off the level-crossing band-aid?
- Flashback Saturday: High Density Sprawl – not an oxymoron?
- Weekly Roundup 22-Nov-19
- Observations from Urban-cycling Nirvana
- Sep & Oct-19 Ridership
- The Southwest Gateway Programme
- Walking the CRL tunnels
- Flashback Sunday – Isolated in the quarter-acre pavlova paradise?
- Power up: a visitor’s review of Auckland (by e-bike)
- Business as usual or a park for the planet and our people? The case of Chamberlain ‘Park’
- Moving the port
- Getting the little things right – some insights from Japan
- AT finally looking to fix the Outer Link
- Flashback Saturday: Driverless cars – What about the Pedestrians?
- Weekly Roundup 08-Nov-19
- Brisbane Rail Observations
- Gathering Momentum by Gathering Data
- In bed before 10: Auckland Transport’s vision for our future
- If Light Metro is the answer?
- Weekly Roundup 01-Nov-19
- Making sensible mode decisions
- Elevated Lines
- Big projects change
- Flashback Saturday: Airport Rapid Transit isn’t really about the Airport
- Weekly Roundup 25-Oct-19
- Oct-19 AT Board Meeting
- Fixing the light rail mess
- The 2019-2022 Council Term
- Super Fund Mess will delay Light Rail by years
- Flashback Saturday: The cost of space (for cars)
- Last day to support the refreshed City Centre Masterplan
- A miracle on High Street
- ATs Speed Limit change options
- Disappearing traffic on 14th Street
- Ready-Made Council Plans At Your Service
- 2019 Council Election Results
- Weekly Roundup 11-Oct-19
- Planning and transport postcard from Japan
- The Super Fund Light Rail Scam
- Planning Successful Cities: Submission Guide
- Klimaschutz
- 2019 Auckland Mayoral Election Policy Roundup
- Flashback Saturday: What is Auto-Dependency?
- Weekly Roundup 4/10/19
- AT slashing bus services
- In need of champions
- The good, the adequate and the downright bad
- Upgrading the NW Cycleway – consultation
- Flashback Saturday: Transport’s not a left/right political issue
- Triumph of the high-amenity city
- Fifty Percent May Be Acceptable To You
- Aug-19 Ridership
- Oh my Göttingen
- City Centre Motorway ramp numbers
- Flashback Sunday: Does building roads harm the economy?