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1000 most recent posts listed below:

• 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?
• Mā te wā
• Book Review: The Design of Childhood
• What’s at stake in the upcoming Council election
• Puhinui & Aotea stations start construction
• Going round in circles at Royal Oak
• City Centre Masterplan refresh consultation
• Flashback Saturday: In Praise of City Trees
• Doubts on Redoubt – Delusions and Solutions
• Investment Pipelines and the CRL
• 2019 Rail Station Boardings
• Auckland’s previous transport revolution
• If AT were really trying to change things
• Flashback Saturday: The pitfalls of “multi-modal” projects
• A lesson from Indianapolis
• Less Parking, Please
• Sep-19 AT Board Meeting
• Bridge Crash Chaos
• July-19 Ridership
• Flashback Saturday: The Other Great Transit Dividend
• Lost in Transmission: Junky Economics and Gunky Harbours
• Accessing Skypath 2.0
• Faster Buses
• Guest Post: What does a world without parking minimums look like?
• What’s More Stimulating than a Road?
• Flashback Saturday: The alternative route
• Light rail delayed by Super Fund fantasy
• Solid planning shakeup undermined by sprawl push
• End The Victoria Park Pause
• Making our cars cleaner
• Double Decking the Harbour Bridge
• Flashback Saturday: ATAP interim report
• Hamilton commuter rail and rapid transit being planned
• What winter cycling slump
• The Road to Zero – Submissions Due Now
• The Sleek Queen Transit Mall
• Safety-washing?
• Should light rail be underground?
• Flashback Saturday: Alternative Transport Funding Report Released
• Notes on a New Zealand City: Wellington
• Uber and Lyft admit they’re making traffic worse
• Regional Access
• Is light rail finally making progress?
• Puhinui upgrade starts soon
• Flashback Saturday – Build bridges, not walls: How to make Auckland a more equitable city
• Get on with Queen St
• The plans to improve bus reliability
• How (round-trip) Carshare can ‘drive’ change in Cities
• A more people friendly High St coming
• The cost of more frequent buses
• Flashback Saturday: Are our business cases founded on a lie?
• Mini-Hollands in Nieuw Zeeland – a global template?
• The two VKTs
• Road to Zero: the new road safety strategy
• July-19 AT Board meeting
• Road Lobby Reckons
• AT’s Jun-19 Numbers
• “Supporting growth” but can we afford it
• Road Building Brouhaha
• ATs journey planner – new look, same garbage results
• Zero Carbon
• 2019 Council Election – transport thoughts
• The “Progressive NIMBY” conundrum
• Making electric cars cheaper
• Auckland Building Activity soars
• Auckland Transport’s Parking Nonsense
• Flashback Saturday: How should we pursue good urban design?
• The Auckland Transit Challenge
• Good Density
• Making the city center even greater
• Downtown Transformation Video
• May-19 Ridership and more
• Flashback Saturday: Funding strategic transport
• A History of Regional and Long-Distance Buses in New Zealand
• Regional Fuel Tax approaches first anniversary
• Detailing Kiwirail’s billion dollar spend up
• Keeping old reports available
• Free PT day a success
• 100 million trips, how does it compare?
• Victoria St Linear Park moves a step closer
• Top Table, Full Purse
• Rail Delays Expected
• Airport connections are over-rated
• Healthy Composting, Healthy City – Under Threat
• Analysing Auckland’s congestion
• Paris tackling congestion, by removing lanes
• Auckland Declares a Climate Emergency, but is it enough?
• Women in Urbanism Event Aotearoa – Today!
• June-19 AT Board meeting
• An engineer, a doctor and a councillor walked into a bar…
• Flashback Saturday: Why I love intensification in my neighbourhood
• PT Reaches 100 Million
• Staging the Northwestern
• A history of Harbour Crossing Options
• Completing the RTN
• Flashback Saturday: Auckland’s stupidly complex bus system
• The Harbour Bridge turns 60
• Quiet Revolution
• Airport Access Numbers
• Fare Reductions Part 2
• Time to promote the RTN
• Flashback Saturday: Auckland’s Improving CBD
• Guest Post: Competitive Cities – A Decade of Shifting Fortunes
• New Skypath design confirmed
• From Victims to Heroes – Nga Iwi E
• A National Public Transport Network
• Puhinui upgrade confirmed
• Flashback Saturday: The City Centre Master Plan
• Let’s Get Welly Moving released