Stuart’s 100 #47: The Forgotten Triangle
48: The Forgotten Triangle What if the forgotten triangle behind Shortland Street was more than a parking lot?
Continuing the series on forgotten or underutilised spaces within the city, the steeply rising wedge of land between Shortland Street, Albert Park and Princes Street is certainly a stand out example of well-located land that should be valued and utilised for much more than just parking.…
8 Comments Britomart precinct quick wins
It has now been three months since Janette Sadik-Khan visited Auckland and showed us how easy it was to create a more liveable city by making things better for people to walk and cycle around, and best of all we could do this really quickly and cheaply.…
Walking in Manukau
Just over a month ago I was out at Manukau City, at the open day of the new MIT, which doubles as Manukau station. This is a brilliant facility, with world class integration of land use and transport. If you haven’t been out to check it out, you really should.…
Heart of the City’s pedestrian counts
For a couple of years now Heart of the City has been providing pedestrian counts at a number of locations within the CBD. They are delivered thanks to a growing network of automatic pedestrian counters which means a huge amount of detailed information is available from them rather than what is available from someone standing on the street counting people.…
Photo of the Day: High St- low value use
The top of High Street is interrupted, dominated, and devalued by the double-laned exit from the Victoria St car parking building. The footpath on the east side is frequently blocked by impatient drivers…. …while on the west side it is so narrow that the high numbers of people there are forced onto the oversized carriageway with the jammed traffic.…
Throwing Down A Half-Nelson
This is a guest post [as promised!] by CAA‘s Max Robitzsch As shown in the previous photo blog, NZTA and the Auckland Motorways Alliance (thanks!) recently allowed Cycle Action and Transport Blog the chance to walk over a surplus part of our motorway building boom.…
Photo of the Day: Red II
Eyelight Lane by Swedish artist David Svensson, commissioned by Auckland Council. Photographs by Patrick Reynolds.…
Improving K’Rd
Below is a plan developed by the Waitemata Local Board working closely with the Karangahape Rd Business Association to improve the area: This is their accompanying text:
Over the next few decades the Karangahape Road area will experience a dramatic increase in growth, especially in the wake of the completion of the Central Rail Link.…
Khartoum Place upgrade in full swing
The Khartoum place upgrade is well under way and shaping up to be an even greater set of urban spaces for our rapidly developing city.
First up, down on the Lorne St side we can see the new owner of the old new gallery building has changed its format in response to the opening of the new old gallery (ahem). …
Auckland’s missing pedestrian legs
A recently discussed on the blog, Auckland Council is making great strides in some of the more high profile City Centre Masterplan projects, with work recently starting on the O’Connell St and Upper Khartoum Place upgrades. However what I believe has been missing are much smaller scale interventions that can make things better for pedestrians.…
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