Weekly Roundup 08-July-2022
Kia ora! Hope you’ve had a good week, and welcome to our Weekly Roundup.
Header image by Jessica Rose, from Twitter The week in Greater Auckland
On Monday, Matt wrote about improving and electrifying regional rail.
Tuesday’s post looked at Mayoral candidate Viv Beck’s quite sensible transport policy.…
14 Comments Penlink To Start
Waka Kotahi recently announced the construction partners for building Ō Mahurangi Penlink, a massive new $830 million, 7 km road through farmland and coastal environment to the Whangaparāoa Peninsula. This comes after the government gave their final approval to the project at the start of the month.…
Weekly Roundup 17-June-2022
Nau mai haere mai to the last weekly roundup before days start getting longer again. What does the middle of the year bring us? Lots! The week in Greater Auckland
On Monday, we shared a guest post that asked: is it time to switch sides?…
Weekly Roundup 03-June-2022
Nau mau haere mai ki te marama o Pipiri – it’s June and it’s Matariki season! How did that happen? The week in Greater Auckland
On Monday, Matt critiqued the AA’s recent call for more roads.
Tuesday’s guest post by Tim Adriaansen reflected on a year of inaction on the Harbour Bridge.…
Weekly Roundup 20-May-2022
What a busy couple of weeks it’s been. We skipped roundup last week, so please enjoy a fortnight’s worth of fun links. Last week in Greater Auckland
On Monday, Scott wrote about protecting Auckland’s urban character, rather than just a particular type of house.…
Weekly Roundup 06-May-2022
Kia ora – May is upon us but it feels like March, which is a little worrying but it’s lovely weather for getting out and about in the city… The week in Greater Auckland
Monday’s post examined the changes proposed by AT to improve bus priority on Maioro Street – and a reminder, if you want to submit on the design, submissions are open until the 20th of May.…
Weekly Roundup 18-March-2022
Another week, and just like that we’re halfway through March! Welcome to our weekly roundup. The week in Greater Auckland Monday’s post covered the recent meeting of Auckland Council’s Environment and Climate Change committee, and the councillor’s responses to the tragic death of Levi James, on his bike in Royal Oak.…
Weekly Roundup 11-March-2022
Tēnā koutou, and welcome to your weekly collection of interesting stories from the transport and urbanism world. The week in Greater Auckland On Monday, Scott slated Council’s “characteristically timid” response to the latest housing bill, when it comes to putting housing where shops and services and attractions already are.…
Weekly roundup 04-March-2022
Kia ora. Well, this week definitely felt like it had too much news in it. Perhaps unsurprisingly, we found transport and urbanism angles on pretty much all of it. The week in Greater Auckland Monday’s post, by Matt, explored the pros and cons of past CRL proposals, going all the way back to 1920.…
A New Commissioner for Active Travel
Waka Kotahi’s leadership have been defending the need for investment in cycling. Good on them.
At the Waka Kotahi Annual Review, MPs asked about the high per km cost that Auckland Transport uses for cycling infrastructure. In reply, General Manager Transport Services, Brett Gliddon, gave an excellent explanation of the difference in cost between reallocation of road space and building new infrastructure:
cycleways are delivered in two key strategic ways.…
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