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1000 most recent posts listed below:

• Sunday reading 21 January 2018
• Build Light Rail right – Close the centres to cars
• Getting Gates
• Defining the “average” Aucklander.
• City Motorway Ramps
• Zoning politics for the many, not the few
• Fix the Symonds St on-ramp
• Lend me some sugar — Thoughts on PT fares #1
• Sunday reading 14 January 2018: Swan song edition
• Quay St starts, Quay St stops
• Rethinking the Manukau Harbour Crossing
• Roads of National Party Significance
• Devonport Ferry Shuttle Trial
• Thoughts on Vancouver
• 10 Years
• Water water everywhere
• Biting the Breast that Feeds Us
• Cities need Transit, both to thrive, and to do so more equitably.
• Streetfilms: Traffic in New York City
• “Expanding Auckland” a 1960 documentary
• 2018 – The year ahead
• Sunday reading 31 December 2017
• 2017 – A Year in Review Part 4 – Everything Else
• 2017 – A Year in Review Part 3 – Roads
• 2017 – A Year in Review Part 2 – Walking and Cycling
• 2017 – A Year in Review Part 1 – PT
• Meri Kirihimete! Please help save our streets this Christmas!
• Nov-17 Ridership
• Fixing Shortland Street
• More toll roads raise questions
• How to avoid subsidising sprawl
• Getting Regional Rapid Rail Right
• Staying awake on safety
• Kaikoura reconnected
• Watch: Rotterdam, A Post-War Central City Moves Beyond the Automobile
• Dear Auckland, we need your help
• Auckland’s Urban Freshwater – our historic relationship
• Bikexplosion
• Riding the Eastern New Network
• Development Update: December 2017
• Auckland Transport spineless on Onewa Road
• 1975 Auckland Rapid Transit video
• Auckland Transport still want Battery Electric Trains
• New Rosedale Busway Station to be built
• Sunday reading 10 December 2017
• The Council’s next Budget
• Transport Briefings to the new Ministers
• No Trains in Auckland Tomorrow
• Tauranga’s transport schemozzle
• A glimpse at the future of Queen St
• Should we get excited about “shared mobility”?
• Ohinewai – Morrinsville Rail Deviation
• Dec-17 AT Board Meeting
• Auckland’s 80’s Development Boom
• Taking cycle design seriously
• Christchurch Conversion
• Oct-17 Ridership
• Westfield Flying Junction
• How Dense Is Dense? Part 1 – The Quarter Acre Paradise
• Northland Rail
• Draft Auckland Plan – needs a lot of work
• Dominion Rd bus lanes to finally be improved
• The value of rail to New Zealand
• What makes a good light-rail route different from a good busway route?
• The disappearance of Onzo
• Rethinking the Additional Waitemata Harbour Crossing project
• Lightpath Festival
• CRL progress – Nov-17
• Updated Central New Network Map
• Twyford to change Govt Policy Statement on Transport
• Move light rail to serve more people?
• Next section of Federal St to get shared space treatment
• Rethinking AMETI/Eastern Busway
• Sunday reading 19 November 2017
• Wynyard woes: how not to close a bus stop
• Wellington: “If you want better PT, build more roads first”
• Port Performance
• Positive signs from the Traffinz Conference
• East West Link Decision
• America’s Cup base location shortlist
• Vision Zero on The Nation
• What kind of light rail should we get?
• Development update: November 2017
• Rethinking Albert Street
• Counting all the costs and none of the benefits of PT
• Vision Zero: A conversation with Women in Urbanism
• Port Future Talk
• Western Victoria Quarter Part 2: Cook Street and Motorway Severance
• Removing the Rural Urban Boundary is a dumb idea
• The Disappearing Cycleway II – A Devonport Tale
• A new Auckland Plan is progressing – but it’s a bit bland
• Fair Pay for Bus Drivers – Jacinda Ardern
• City Boulevard, ’t Goylaan, Utrecht
• Are tendering processes really to blame for drivers wages?
• Aug and Sep-17 Ridership
• Rethinking Lincoln Road
• Books for buses: share what you’re reading
• Satellite Cities in the South
• Northwest Light Rail Thoughts
• Making the most of Mt Eden Station
• It’s time for some tweaks to MMP
• A Light Rail Pipeline
• Sunday reading 29 October 2017
• A collection of thoughts on a regional fuel tax
• Accelerating Regional Rapid Rail – Jump straight to Stage 2
• Phil Twyford Comes Out Swinging on Housing and Transport
• Twyford’s opportunity to enhance the CRL
• Fixing the National Land Transport Fund
• Government agreements contain good wins for transport
• National’s Top 10 Urban Achievements
• Where to now for the East West Link?
• Video – the high cost of free parking
• Sunday reading 22 October 2017
• Change coming to transport in NZ
• Western Victoria Quarter Part 1: Introduction
• More PT ridership milestones
• Battery train plans go flat
• South Auckland’s missing bus lanes
• The Waterview Voluntary Tax
• Council’s City Centre video
• Safety must become a higher priority
• Sunday reading 15 October 2017
• CRL bus stop changes 3.0
• NZTA still sabotaging the Northwest Busway
• Why “Designing Cities for Women” should be a thing
• NZTA Post Implementation Reviews
• Cities and music: Telling tales?
• Northern Corridor Approved
• CRL progress – Oct-17
• AT to fix HOP top up issue and more
• Sunday reading 8 October 2017
• Houston, we have a problem
• Development update: October 2017
• Will the Eastern Busway ever get built?
• All cycleways lead to Glen Innes Town Centre…
• What’s going wrong with the RoNS?
• Tourist trains from Southland to Northland?
• Event: How to Fast-Track a Bike Network
• Airport Rapid Transit isn’t really about the Airport
• Sunday reading 1 October 2017
• Waterfront carpark to go, ideas wanted
• The days of subsidising sprawl are ending
• The design for Lower Queen St
• PT Satisfaction up
• Options for Regional and Metro heavy rail services in Auckland
• Dairy Flat, the Future Urban zone, and planning for transit
• Trucks in bus lanes?
• Waterfront regeneration: a tale of two cities
• Sunday reading 24 September 2017
• Hamilton: City of the Future
• New Auckland Transport Chief Executive
• Election Transport Policy Roundup
• Pre-emptively poking holes in the land tax bucket
• Solved: The mystery of the Wellsford-Whangarei business case
• PT Ridership around New Zealand
• More on Kiwi Rail De-electrification
• Upgrading Takapuna’s heart
• Transport Priorities for a New Government
• Sunday reading 17 September 2017
• Visions of the future coming from the past
• How transport policy affects location choice
• A surprising ally in the fight against the East-West Link
• The cost of pedestrian congestion
• Big changes for Tamaki Dr
• Does New Zealand need an urbanisation project to improve productivity?
• Sep-17 AT Board Meeting
• New Zealand’s problem with death
• HOP terms update
• The public want PT
• Sunday reading 10 September 2017
• Flashback Saturday: Electrification and EMU update to Transport Committee
• Nelson St Phase 3 Consultation
• Economics of the East West Link Part 2
• July-2017 Ridership
• Cycleway “Quality of Service” tool
• A Green Light
• Wynyard Quarter transport troubles – Part 2
• Otahuhu needs bike love too! Add your voice by 6 September
• The next AT chief executive has a big job ahead
• Submit to save Takapuna’s new urban area
• More thoughts on new City Bus Interchanges
• Sunday reading 3 September 2017
• Rethinking the East-West Link
• Council’s updated vision for the city centre
• Development update: September 2017
• Rail reaches 20 million trips
• Road safety in headlines
• Guest Post: A Visit to Perth, Western Australia
• Legalising perimeter block housing
• Some More De-Electrification Questions
• World-class, liveable or nothing at all – the upcoming Council budget
• Sunday reading 27 August 2017
• Trains to the Planes
• Learning from Melbourne – Myki Lessons for HOP & More
• We need to talk about Brisbane, and other strategic policy matters
• City Centre Masterplan workshop
• Would smaller councils approve more housing?
• The Auckland Rail Development Programme
• The mystery of the Wellsford-Whangarei business case
• RoNS 2.0 – a lesson in diminishing returns
• Sunday reading 20 August 2017
• Flashback Saturday: Snapper off the Menu?
• 2017 Rail Station Boardings
• Introducing Regional Rapid Rail
• General Election Debate on Transport – Campaign for Better Transport
• Pouring gasoline on the housing fire
• Wijkontsluitingsweg
• Victory on Victoria
• Dual Modes and Axle Loads
• ATAP Revised
• Sunday reading 13 August 2017
• Why world-class public transport is so crucial to Auckland’s future
• Development update: August 2017 (the “top 10” for Auckland apartments)
• Airport Rail Responses
• CRL Future Proofing – Learning Lessons from Melbourne
• Wynyard Quarter transport troubles – Part 1
• Bring Back the Grid Network, Bring Back Crosstown 4: The Better Outer Link
• The new consensus on transport for Auckland
• Cashout your parking – a free election policy for the taking
• Labour adopts CFN for Auckland transport policy
• Sunday reading 6 August 2017
• Nationals election promises for Auckland
• Making mischief with multi-criteria analysis
• Streetfilms on Tactical Urbanism
• What is the cost of congestion?
• Next steps for Auckland’s cycling revolution
• Slowing drivers in Houten
• The escalating costs of building roads
• #Campaign4theMains – Support the Third/Fourth Main
• Aug-17 AT Board Meeting
• Sunday reading 30 July 2017
• Three Waters Infrastructure Part 4 – Green Streets
• The Third Main business case – the un-redacted version
• Auckland Airport’s Growth Plans
• Research: Pedestrian Connectivity and Economic Productivity in Auckland’s City Centre
• Is Parnell Station Fixable?
• Can value capture help pay for new infrastructure?
• Streetfilms: Nijmegen
• New Govt Housing Company – Paerata and Drury West Confirmed
• Battery trains to be approved for Pukekohe
• Sunday reading 23 July 2017
• Flashback Saturday – June 2012 Patronage results
• New East-West images
• June-2017 Ridership
• Te Ara Tomo – The Underline
• Further thoughts on the CRL accessibility issue
• Back to School — School Zones in New Zealand vis-a-vis the Netherlands
• Station gating underway at Henderson
• The confusing politics of immigration
• Our lack of walkable cities is helping make us obese
• More questions raised over CRL future-proofing
• Sunday reading 16 July 2017
• Govt Funded and Toll Free Skypath
• Political cynicism and lies on migration
• Three Waters Infrastructure; What does Auckland need? – Part 3 – Traditional Stormwater
• Government’s Housing Infrastructure Fund announced
• Women in Urbanism – Event
• Connecting cities: it’s a matter of scale
• Fanshawe bus lane gets permanent enforcement
• Parnell Station, next stop Disneyland.
• Quay St cycleway turns one
• Democratic Tin: Observations from Bourke St
• Sunday reading 9 July 2017
• Let’s make cup parade impacts permanent
• Should Auckland’s boundaries be redrawn? Part 1: the splitters
• Wynyard’s slower streets
• Build bridges, not walls: How to make Auckland a more equitable city
• Hosking’s idiotic bus lane rant
• The State of Transport in NZ
• This is what disruption looks like
• Waterview Tunnel Opens, Motorway Network Completed
• CRL takes next step, but are we making enough of it?
• Sunday reading 2 July 2017
• Making Pedestrian Level Crossings Safer
• Improving Stations – Part 2: Layout
• The importance PT hubs is starting to be understood in Auckland
• ATs new Statement of Intent
• Three Waters Infrastructure; What does Auckland need? – Part 2 – Water Supply
• What the Team NZ win could mean for improving our city
• What Kiwirail is investing their budget money in
• Reviewing the OECD’s economic review
• Sunday reading 25 June 2017
• Flashback Saturday: “What’s wrong with this picture?”
• East-West questioned in Parliament
• London’s new transport strategy
• Unlocking the Western City Centre – Federal St Laneway Stage 3
• Making PT hard
• Development update: June 2017
• Cycling by the numbers in Auckland
• May-2017 Ridership
• Broken Business Cases
• Waterview officially opened
• Simon Bridges digs more holes on The Nation
• Flashback Saturday: “The Case for the Eastern Link”
• The Third Main Business Case
• Let have ‘safety-first’ speed limits – Submissions due now!
• Jun-17 AT Board Meeting
• Lake Rd consultation
• Riding the Western New Network
• Morrow Street Changes
• The Economics of the East West Link
• Road Pricing responses
• Light at the end of the Waterview Tunnel
• Sunday reading 11 June 2017
• Flashback Saturday: “Tearing down the Dominion Rd interchange”
• New Network in West Auckland goes live Sunday
• Hamilton Rail in holding pattern
• The Ranui Bus and Train Timetable in 1992
• Why we need to Complete the City Centre Masterplan & why the Crown should help
• Smarter pricing study announced
• Three Waters Infrastructure; What does Auckland need? – Part 1 – Wastewater
• Now a $7 billion shortfall
• Next steps towards smarter transport pricing
• Sunday reading 4 June 2017
• Flashback Saturday: “More information about the RoNS”
• Airport transport improvements coming
• Council’s 2017 budget passed
• Improving Stations – Part 1: Shelters
• Kiwirail Structure review promising
• A new direction for state housing?
• The Auckland Housing Accord: SHAm or SHAlvation? (part 2)
• AT on their PT journey
• Lighting the Bridge
• Controlling City Rail Link costs
• Sunday reading 28 May 2017
• Saturday Flashback: “Junkspace: Rem, Lee and me”
• April-2017 Ridership
• Budget-17 outcome – Where’s the funding?
• T2/3 or Bus Lane – How AT decides
• Making Auckland better, faster
• What the 2017 budget could deliver for transport
• City Centre Targeted Rate Budget
• New Zealand should plan for 10 million New Zealanders
• New Transport for Future Urban Growth (TFUG) Videos
• A bike to share in Auckland
• Sunday reading 21 May 2017
• Development update: May 2017/ tourism boom part 2
• Is building more homes a sinister plot against the poor?
• Two public talks in Wellington
• Victoria St Cycleway Consultation
• Government to finally build more houses, but is it enough?
• How are children and youth faring under the AT HOP system?
• Bus Back Map
• Kiwirail de-electrification decision questioned
• Urban Schools an idea whose time has come
• The great Auckland turnaround story
• Sunday reading 14 May 2017
• Flashback Saturday: Local roads getting screwed over
• Waterviewgate
• Grafton Gully bus terminal and bike access
• Could the ABS Study Concepts be used?
• Mainfreight’s positive views on transport
• Still waiting for frequent trains
• It’s Road Safety Week 2017. That got me thinking…
• The Auckland Housing Accord: SHAm or SHAlvation? (part 1)
• Will Auckland be a major election issue?
• Mid-Town Bus Business Case doesn’t support ATs position
• Sunday reading 7 May 2017
• Flashback Saturday: Visualising the Impact of the CRL
• Unlocking Henderson
• ATAP Cost Details
• May-17 AT Board Meeting
• Taking the CFN2 to the council
• Transforming Onehunga
• Why aren’t we building the NW Busway?
• Albany Parking Scheme – why not the Park n Ride too
• Michael Barnett embarrassingly bad on funding gap
• Sunday reading 30 April 2017
• Flashback Saturday: “‘The Cross’ Future Pattern for Auckland Rail?”
• Recent CRL News Round-up
• CFN2: Making the most of the rail network
• How much would a regional fuel tax raise
• All the colours of the academic rainbow — Careers in transport
• Accessibility Observations
• Joyce and Goff’s war of words on funding
• Auckland in 1956
• New Board directors for Auckland Transport
• Ferry trade-offs
• Sunday reading 23 April 2017
• Flashback Saturday: Auckland Patronage Plummets
• Guest Post: The Battle for Victoria Street
• March Madness 2017 Ridership
• What’s happening with the transport funding gap?
• Guest Post: First World Travel, Third World Facilities
• Save a Park, Save a City
• Development Update: April 2017
• Light-rail is light in name only
• Streetflims on Olso’s plan to go car-free
• Sunday Reading 16 April 2017
• Flashback Saturday: “Manukau Station opens tomorrow”
• Let’s talk about public transport. Honestly.
• Thanks for your support!
• CRL Capacity and the CFN
• Is ATAP still the Government’s plan?
• The cost of crashes
• CFN 2 – The Northwest
• Introducing the Congestion Free Network 2
• Sunday Reading 9 April 2017
• Flashback Saturday: “The Redesigned Bus Network”
• East-West Link roundup
• How to Un Moses your City – Auckland
• AT Rejects Allowing Electric Vehicles in Bus Lanes
• Customer service and fare evasion in ATs sights
• Airport Rapid Transit: A Way Forward.
• Queen Street – We don’t have to wait for LRT to make it Great.
• Fundraiser update and new campaign tease
• What about Airport Heavy Rail from Puhinui?
• Linear Park – The (AT) Empire Clutches Back
• Sunday reading 2 April 2017
• SH16 to be Double Stacked
• Research: Drivers of Firm Location
• Submit on the roadsfest draft GPS
• Not Stepping on Anybody’s Toes – Mt Albert Consultation Results
• Council saves Linear Park from AT’s clutches
• Website and Fundraiser Update
• Pt Chev to Westmere Consultation – some of AT’s best work
• Getting event PT right and setting records doing it
• March-17 AT Board meeting
• Advanced buses not a solution
• Sunday reading 26 March 2017
• St Lukes Rd becoming safer for bikes
• NZTA support light-rail to Airport
• Fundraiser update
• Why is PT ridership falling in the US, but growing here?
• February-2017 Ridership
• Tauranga’s Ghost Motorway
• Tame on the money
• AT’s Albert St preliminary design
• Sunday reading 19 March 2017
• Rethinking Traffic Offences – Drink Driving
• Since I’ve been in Auckland…
• It’s not the Cycle Lane causing congestion
• Another flawed congestion report
• Missed News Roundup – March-17
• TransportBlog website update and fundraiser
• Te Whau Pathway Consultation
• Quit whining, Millennials, and save for a home!
• The death of coal?
• Auckland PT Performance Comparison 2017
• Sunday reading 12 March 2017
• ATs Parking App is live
• Car-dependency is a bad deal
• Kapiti Expressway stage one: Review
• North Shore Rapid Transit Network Strategic Case
• RoNS 2.0?
• Development update: March 2017
• No, Boomers, it’s not like it was back in the day
• Working towards a car-free city centre
• Sunday reading 5 March 2017
• Quietening Ellerslie
• ATAP ASAP’s – Eastern Busway
• Time to replace our failed safety strategy
• A mapping bouquet for AT
• Looking closer at the GPS
• AT to be more open about contracts
• January-2017 Ridership
• Auckland’s March-17 Rail Timetables
• Sunday reading 26 February 2017
• Research: Recommended road user rule changes
• Are we finally ready for March Madness
• Govt silly to reject Regional Fuel Tax
• Draft Government Policy Statement 2018-28: Roads Roads Roads
• Lightpath couldn’t stand the light
• Level Crossing Removal Feasibility
• Goff’s Busway Tunnel
• Improving EMU Travel Times – LGOIMA
• Agreeing with Joyce
• Waterview reckoning
• Sunday reading 19 February 2017
• The tyranny of the peak
• Warkworth to Wellsford boondoggle route announced
• Exports, prosperity, and cities
• Third Main Business Case OIA
• Proximity as a transport solution
• February-2017 AT Board update
• Unitary Plan changes were “in scope”
• Do economists think we should build more infrastructure?
• Sylvia Park Station Eastern/Carbine Rd Access LGOIMA
• How fast should our trains be
• Sunday Reading 12 February 2017
• Mr. Bridges, open this gate. Mr. Bridges, tear down this wall!
• Guest post: What is the secret to Tokyo’s affordable housing?
• The Bike Blueprint 2020 – where should Auckland invest in cycling next?
• Bring on the pedestrian crossing
• AMETI finally moving forward
• More jobs in the city centre
• Are regional towns and cities too small?
• Missed news wrapup
• Sunday reading 5 February 2017
• Late buses
• Anzac St in need of some attention
• Invisible infrastructure – Turning the Corner Campaign
• 50 Years of waiting for an Auckland Rapid Transit system.
• Smaller Consultations – January
• AT Event PT Groundhog
• Is Auckland too big?
• Sunday reading 29 January 2017
• Tamaki Dr hot mess approved
• Development update: January 2017
• More petrol station changes
• December-2016 Ridership
• Guest Post: Locomotion
• Time for a national rapid transit discussion
• Rapid Transit strengths
• A future for Auckland’s transport network
• Electric bus trial in Auckland
• Dwelling on dwell-times — Estimating the economic benefits of speeding up Auckland’s trains
• Sunday reading 22 January 2017
• A tale of two streets
• Tendering to start for rest of CRL
• Quay St: Oh Yeah
• RIP Eastern Motorway
• Westfield Station to be cut
• The politics of Auckland
• Transit fare changes for 2017
• Ka mua, ka muri: Looking back in order to move forward
• Traffic Preserves
• Auckland’s New Network — What comes next?
• Introduction to Systematic Safety, The Principles Behind Vision Zero
• Nelson St Phase 2
• AT’s Parking App delayed
• Great Cycling Myths & Mistakes – How Auckland can easily be a Great Cycling City
• Britomart’s new temporary entrance is open
• Slowest City tag meaningless
• ATAP ASAP’s – Extra Trains
• Wanderlust: One week in Bordeaux makes a hard man crumble
• Driverless Impacts
• Sunday reading 8 January 2017
• City Math
• Seattle moves on Transit
• Driverless Light Rail
• Video of the day: Future of cities
• Wheely suitcase in Europe #8: Santiago de Compostela to Lisbon — Where dwell-times are short
• Sunday reading 1 January 2017
• 2017 – The Year Ahead
• 2016 – A Year in Review Part 4 – Everything else
• 2016 – A Year in Review Part 3 – Roads
• 2016 – A Year in Review Part 2 – Walking and Cycling
• 2016 – A Year in Review Part 1 – PT
• City Centre Streets for the 21st Century
• Applying for Motorways
• Guest Post: Hamilton Trumps Wellington?
• The height of trees and the height of buildings
• Rosedale Station decisions
• Development update: December 2016
• ATAP Indicative Projects Costings
• Bookstores, cities, and shared streets
• Guest Post: EMUs Not Much Faster Than Steam
• Could the government fund light rail
• Sunday reading 18 December 2016
• Make the Mt Albert Upgrade Great Again
• Don’t buy the depreciating asset
• Platform 2 Mystery Solved – Better Newmarket Transfers
• Airport Anarchy
• The Ideology of Traffic
• November-2016 Patronage and Cycle Data
• Guest Post: Airport parking idiocy in Wellington
• Zoning reform: Stalled change in California
• Petrol stations in the city centre
• Council expectations of Auckland Transport
• Sunday reading 11 December 2016
• Smaller Consultations – December
• New Network niggles
• December AT Board update
• The Speeds Limits are too Damn High
• Traffic’s fine, free the streets for people
• Six digits quayed in
• The Auckland productivity premium
• A Key influence on transport
• Photo of the Day: Our Out of Balance Centre City Streets
• Mt Albert upgrade under threat
• Sunday Reading 4 December 2016
• AA’s ATAP Funding Survey
• Small Steps – Better Bus Lanes
• It’s Cycleway Consultation Season
• Tweet of the Day: 21st Century City
• Transport Spending in NZ in 2016
• Phil Goff’s first rates proposal
• Australian city centres: a good-news story
• Why we do this
• ATAP ASAPs – Third Main
• Sunday reading 27 November 2016
• A vision for the future, from LA
• Light Rail Dominion Road – Land Use Low Hanging Fruit
• Santa Parade Groundhog
• Funding Strategic Transport
• Assorted bike related news
• Zoning reform: How California got into the mess it’s in
• State Houses and Social Housing (part 3)
• ATs rail assets and costs
• November 16 AT Board Meeting
• October-2016 Patronage
• Sunday Reading 20 November 2016
• Ride Sharing & Fare Evasion – Land Transport Amendments
• Geographic dimensions of Trumpism
• Guest post: carbon taxes and the NZ economy
• Are New Zealand cities financially sustainable?
• Where’s the Shelter
• Earthquake recovery
• How should we pursue good urban design?
• The end of auto top-up blacklisting
• Voting for Transit
• Sunday Reading 13 November 2016
• State Houses and Social Housing (part 2)
• Speed Limit Changes
• Barnett: Do more of what we’ve done and see if we get a different result
• Odd Compromise for AT Board?
• Trademe, power tools, and “filtering” in housing markets
• Stunning Lightpath Timelapse
• Why is ATs website so customer unfriendly?
• What do garage bands and tech startups have in common?
• Photo of the Day: The Crystal Palace
• Development update: November 2016
• Increasing capacity on our trains
• Sunday reading 6 November 2016
• Postcard from Japan: Kamakura Day Trip
• SMART Alignments Observations
• New Auckland Councillor Maiden Speeches
• New Amsterdam
• Skypath and East-West; good, bad and ugly
• State Houses and Social Housing (part 1)
• Riding the Southern New Network
• Light Rail by-election stoush
• Population Growth in 2016
• Zoning reform: Why have house prices gone up in Auckland?
• Sunday reading 30 October 2016
• Rethinking Airport Rail
• New Network in South Auckland goes live Sunday
• The Big Smoke
• A Quay Park stadium?
• Guest post: A right to reciprocal intensification
• No Councillors on AT Board, perhaps not a bad thing
• Should Auckland still want to be “the world’s most liveable city”?
• September-16 Patronage
• Not so surprising: When cyclists are happy, so are drivers
• Sunday reading 23 October 2016
• Postcard from Japan: Hakone Day Trip
• Will driverless cars make things better, or worse?
• Small Steps Giant Leaps Campaign – Better Timed Transfers
• Does CRL “complete” Auckland’s heavy rail network?
• Who’s carrying on the conversation? (2 of 2)
• Central Access Plan – Mass Transit for the Isthmus
• Small Steps Giant Leaps Campaign – Better Britomart Transfers
• Who’s carrying on the conversation? (1 of 2)
• Enhancing Karangahape Rd – Consultation
• Do Government Powers of Compulsory Purchase Help or Hinder Urban Development?
• Sunday reading 16 October 2016
• North Shore Councillors Decided
• Submit on inner west cycle consultation
• The Victoria St Linear Park: Why it is vital, but not really a park.
• A Visit to Portland
• Why we blog
• Could Morningside Drive Level Crossing be Closed?
• CRL and the opportunity to fix city streets
• Dear Phil
• Sunday reading 9 October 2016
• 2016 Council Election Results
• Still waiting on level crossing action
• Making Trucks Safer in Cities
• The plans for Albert St after the CRL
• Quay hits 50k
• The costs of tunnelling
• Zoning reform: Voter turnout and “information problems” (5 of n)
• Confessions of an Auckland voter: Why I voted for Chlöe
• Onehunga ceded to the NZTA
• CRL Under Construction: Three Shafts Deep
• Sunday reading 2 October 2016
• Video of the week: How wind turbine blades are transported
• Farewell Len
• Manukau Bus Station Fly Through
• New data on cycling
• Unitary Plan hits a snag
• Farnham Street residents looking at each other down the barrel of a gun
• On the way to some Inner West bike routes
• Pick up your shopping at your Station
• Zoning reform: Who participates in local elections? (4 of n)
• Breathing new life into Aotea
• Driverless cars, sprawl and density
• Sunday reading 25 September 2016.
• September 16 AT Board Meeting
• Development update: September 2016
• August-2016 Patronage
• IPENZ Transport Careers Evening
• Postcard from Bogota
• Time to do K Rd station properly
• Giving the Expressway a Run for its Money – Tilt Trains?
• Should we spend more on infrastructure… or less?
• Mt Albert Station and Town Centre Linked
• Generation Zero’s Election Scorecards
• Sunday reading 18 September 2016
• People respond to incentives created by zoning
• ATAP: The right answers to the wrong questions
• ATAP
• Porte Cochere 2 – Pedestrians 0
• Rail to the Shore Meeting Tonight
• Council-Government agreement on CRL signed
• Nibbling at the edges of Auckland
• Small Steps Giant Leaps Campaign – Better Newmarket Transfers
• City Rail Link and ATAP imminent
• Join the call for a truly bikeable Auckland!
• August-16 Cycling Stats
• 2016 Mayoral Hopeful Transport Policies
• Sunday reading 11 September 2016
• Trapped on an Island
• Postcard from Mexico City
• Matakana Link Rd fast-tracked
• Dear City, I’m in love again
• Zoning reform: Who submitted on the plan? (3 of n)
• The Spinoff warcast – Transport
• More buses on Mt Eden Rd
• Five Years
• Otahuhu Interchange making good progress
• Auckland’s urban growth: a historical perspective
• 1 Million HOP Cards
• Park and Ride not really a no-brainer
• Sunday reading 4 September 2016
• The 2016 AT Active Modes Survey: the case for joy
• Tsunami warning disruption thoughts
• Guest Post: The Small Steps, Giant Leap Campaign – Sylvia Park Station
• Waterview Mitigation Needed
• AT Research shows more people cycling
• Zoning reform: Is the Unitary Plan any good? (2 of n)
• A wheely suitcase in Europe #7: Gijon to Santiago de Compostela.
• Airport RTN: a quick first step
• HOP in detail
• August 16 AT Board Meeting
• Sunday reading 28 August 2016
• Guest Post: Rail Safety Week – A HSEQ Perspective
• A wheely suitcase in Europe #6: San Sebastian to Gijon
• One less objection to Skypath
• Housing is popular
• Increasing cycling and walking in New Zealand cities
• An improved design for the Tamaki/Ngapipi mess
• July-2016 Patronage
• A wheely suitcase in Europe #5: Zaragoza to San Sebastian (plus some musings on high speed rail and one-way streets)
• A Hot Mess on Tamaki
• Get in quick to open up our government and government data!
• How Councillors voted on the Unitary Plan
• The Rail Station Ranking Rug
• Zoning reform: Costs, benefits, and distributional impacts (1 of n)
• Sunday Reading 21 August 2016
• A wheely suitcase in Europe #4: Llanca to Zaragoza
• 2016 Rail and Busway Station Boardings
• A wheely suitcase in Europe #3: Cassis to Llanca
• Local governments’ democracy problem
• Development update: August 2016
• Unitary Plan Passed
• A wheely suitcase in Europe #2: Annecy to Cassis
• The New Old World Order
• Sunday reading 14 August 2016
• Auckland 2016 Election Lists
• A wheely suitcase in Europe #1: Amsterdam to Annecy
• Unitary Plan Day 3
• Register to vote for local body elections
• Behind the scenes on the electric trains
• Unitary Plan updates – Day 2
• Repost: Why I’m optimistic New Zealand can solve its housing troubles
• The HOP Blacklist
• Unitary Plan debate live updates – end of Day 1
• LRT: The Seattle example
• Unitary Plan mythbusting
• Next Steps for the Unitary Plan
• Widen a road to save $1.8 billion
• What, specifically, do you want?
• Sunday reading 7 August 2016
• Thoroughly modern commuting
• Shared spaces then and now
• Unitary Plan reinforces need for focus on PT
• Auckland’s Leafiest Suburbs
• Guest Post: Don’t fear the shoebox
• Coalition Launch: “Their uniting aim? More houses. Now.”
• Ian McKinnon Dr Cycleway Consultation
• Congestion in large Australasian cities
• The Coalition for More Homes
• Unitary Plan Recommended Zoning – the maps
• Sunday reading 31 July 2016
• Guest post: When Nimbyism rules angels become homeless
• Slicing the housing cake: Developer profits versus capital gains
• Guest Post: March Madness Marches On
• Unitary Plan Recommendations Revealed
• Britomart’s new entrance now underway
• Unitary Plan: what to look out for
• July AT Board Meeting
• June-2016 Patronage
• Additional Harbour Crossing – Is NZTA Following The Law?
• Growth in cycling on new separated cycleways
• Sunday reading 24 July 2016
• Council unanimously approves Skypath
• Auckland PT fares to get a whole lot better
• Guest Post: Rethinking our Town Centres for People (Thinking Orbital not Radial) Part 1
• An electric network, one year on
• CRL Station Features
• Govt ignored advice on allowing EVs in bus lanes
• The Full CRL Business Case
• IPENZ talk: Our future with climate change
• Council to decide on Skypath funding this week
• How to reduce Auckland house prices
• Sunday reading 17 July 2016
• Local board Rhetoric Doesn’t Match Reality
• Submit (today) on East-West
• Development update: July 2016
• Does Rapid Transit have the Capacity for Auckland’s Growth
• Mangere and Otahuhu bus stop upgrades planned
• What are the preconditions for congestion pricing in Auckland?
• Lincoln to Westgate Motorway Widening Underway
• The A Train: Rail to the Shore and elsewhere
• Remember the last time house prices crashed 40%?
• CRL Cost Blowout Overblown
• Sunday reading 10 July 2016
• Key unlocks Quay St
• A deadline for PT improvement
• Watch: Gil Penalosa in Auckland
• The alternative route
• 20 Things for Auckland
• A new Road Only Harbour crossing option unpopular
• AT’s “It’s All Go” campaign
• Serving the Southwest
• Postcard from Truckee
• Govt Offers a $1b Infrastructure Loan
• Sunday reading 3 July 2016
• A new entrance for Britomart on the way
• Road pricing #2 – economic benefits
• Northern Corridor moving ahead
• Making Light Rail fast enough on Dominion Rd
• Bike Both Ways on (some) Shared Spaces
• City size, variety, and consumer surplus
• Light Rail Preferred to Airport
• End of June AT Board Meeting
• Road pricing #1 – Political poppycockatoos
• Auckland Conversations: The Future of Housing in Auckland
• More homes at Hobsonville
• Construction Crunch
• Central and East New Network Outcome
• May-16 Patronage
• Apartments, proximity, and living space
• ATAP Interim Report
• Newmarket Crossing gets green light
• Should buses have the right of way?
• Postcard from Denver
• The Main Risks of East-West
• Cycleway Use continues to rise
• Light Rail to the Sea
• PT to miss this years targets
• Parking Shuttle flop
• Do motorways inevitably generate economic growth?
• Are vacant homes adding to the housing shortage in our leafy suburbs?
• East-West an ever increasing cost
• Sunday reading 12 June 2016
• Sir Dove-Myer Robinson on his Rapid Transit Scheme – Part 6
• The high cost of fossil fuel subsidies
• Petrol station shakeup
• Battery powered trains for Pukekohe
• Mid-week reading: strategy games, housing politics, fossil fuel subsidies, and the benefits of bike lanes
• Reeves Rd Flyover decision: The details
• Are CRL predictions undercooked
• “The train that saved Denver”
• Brouhaha over bus colours
• Sunday reading 5 June 2016
• Bikes and Public Transport, Glen Innes and New Lynn
• Thoughts on the CRL ground breaking event
• Development update: June 2016
• CRL Groundbreaking Day
• Sir Dove-Myer Robinson on his Rapid Transit Scheme – Part 5
• Early June AT Board Meeting
• Is a “lack of land supply” the Council’s fault?
• “The accident is not the major problem”
• Dynamic Road Lanes coming
• April-16 Patronage
• Sunday reading 29 May 2016
• SuperGold on HOP
• AT Parking Strategy video
• Guest Post: Farewell Ganz-Mavags
• Mt Eden Rd Double Deckers from Sunday
• Fort St
• Mid-week reading: California uber alles, road tolls, apartment design, and election reviews
• Budget day 2016, what we want to see
• Inner East cycle consultation
• Opening up NLTF to all modes
• Sylvia Park growth plans
• Fanshawe St Bus Stop improvements
• Additional Harbour Crossing ill-considered and over-rushed.
• The end of Auckland’s old growth model
• CRL already impacting land use on city fringe
• Another Road Only Harbour Crossing on the Cards?
• Sunday reading 22 May 2016
• Skypath a step closer
• Reeves Rd Flyover back on the books
• The strange side effects of parking subsidies
• New Half Moon Bay Ferry Pier gets underway
• Removing the RUB won’t necessarily work as planned
• Sir Dove-Myer Robinson on his Rapid Transit Scheme – Part 4
• Locked Out
• Animals on PT
• AT confirm move to city
• Autonomous Cars and the City
• Housing Issues Hotting Up
• Motorways interchanges completed late and over budget
• Subsidies for Electric Vehicles – How do you like them lemons?
• Sunday reading 15 May 2016
• Apartments and housing affordability
• AT and Police Red Light blitz, on the North Shore
• Transport Land Sales a One Way Street?
• Submit on Transport Networks for Auckland’s Future Urban Areas
• Sir Dove-Myer Robinson on his Rapid Transit Scheme – Part 3
• Transport system more like Vancouver, Vienna or Zurich, Yes Please
• Time for a footpath parking campaign?
• NZCIDs Transport Report
• NZCID’s scary views on transport in Auckland
• Congestion prices, carbon taxes, and the art of the possible
• Should Auckland Transport move to the city?
• Electric Vehicles by the numbers
• Sunday reading 8 May 2016
• Government Neuter Bus Lanes
• Strong support for Seapath
• Congested Christchurch
• Devonport population growth and stagnation, 1891-2013
• Better Buses needed
• Western line frequencies finally about to improve
• Let’s ban everything dangerous, like walking
• NZTA on motorways solving congestion
• A good highway upgrade
• K Rd Open Streets a success
• Sunday reading 1 May 2016
• Residents Associations and the Communities they serve
• Sir Dove-Myer Robinson on his Rapid Transit Scheme – Part 2
• North Shore New Bus Network to be confirmed
• Franklin Rd design improves
• April AT Board Meeting
• Thoughts on CBD Bus Changes
• Explore No More
• Mid-week reading: Kim-Mai Cutler, map-making, the Black Death, and knowledge as a public good
• Supersizing Lincoln Rd
• Quay St Cycleway design improves
• Another Tauranga motorway approved
• March-16 Patronage
• Auckland in 1967
• Sunday reading 24 April 2016
• The Value of Well-Designed Cities
• Development Contributions: The DC Marvel
• A Summary of AT’s Internal CRL Business Case
• Central Auckland population growth, 1891-2013
• Western Springs Precinct
• New Lynn to Avondale Path Consultation
• Has AT scaled back Light Rail?
• Auckland Cycleway Metro Map
• Sir Dove-Myer Robinson on his Rapid Transit Scheme – Part 1
• Urban form and agglomeration economies – the impact of “edge cities”
• Cycleways and T2 lanes – Wellington’s latest ideas seem to miss the bus lanes
• The Future of Lake Rd
• Sunday reading 17 April 2016
• City Bus changes for tomorrow
• Cycling network effect in action
• Draft Preferred future urban networks
• Photo of The Day: Signs of a Better Auckland on its Way
• TFUG consultation results
• Mid-week reading: Burglaries, governance, and managing change
• Road Pricing straight to GPS
• Future Port Location Shortlist
• Light-Rail and the Rapid Transit Network
• K Rd Open Streets
• The contribution of agglomeration to economic growth in Auckland
• Sunday reading 10 April 2016
• Is SH20 (WRR) flooding the isthmus with traffic?
• Eastern Path Open Days
• Special Housing Areas – the last batch
• Auckland Rail Passes 16m
• Auckland 1940s Street Map
• The Domain and the Orakei Local Board
• Porters Ave and the CRL
• RNZ: Urban Density Panel Discussion
• Mid-week reading: Cycle connectivity, metro connectivity, walkability
• Things to consider this election
• Auckland Conversation: Joe Minicozzi Thursday 7 April
• Submit on signs
• Are we getting the Public Space Outcome at Britomart the City Needs?
• How Slow Are Auckland’s Trains ?
• Queen St: more pedestrians, fewer vehicles
• Sunday reading 3 April 2016
• The Google Self Driving Bike
• AMETI busway notified
• Government Unveils “Eastern Ring Route”
• Walking and Cycling in Mangere to be improved
• A Transportblog milestone
• Development update: March 2016
• Lightpath hits 100k
• Midweek reading: Christchurch, record shops, and decaying infrastructure
• What’s causing Upper Harbour Dr congestion
• Cycling in Tokyo
• The Linear City versus the Modern Service Industry
• Carpets, character, and construction
• Auckland Conversations: Cities in Action
• Sunday reading 27 March 2016
• Herald finds Aucklanders like bikes
• Waterview March Update
• Feb-16 Indicator Graphs
• Waitakere Ranges public transport survey
• Inner Eastern Line Station Catchment
• The “consumer city” and urban growth in Christchurch
• Cycleway or Motorway
• TomTom congestion report (repost)