Guest Post: Why Northcote’s Residents are wrong about Aucklanders parking at Skypath
This is a guest post from our friends Niko and Emma from Generation Zero
Last week we again saw that Northcote residents are still adamant that users of Skypath will be turning up to Skypath in cars, and that this supposedly will have adverse effects on parking in the Northcote neighbourhood beyond what can be mitigated with a residents parking scheme.…
114 Comments Appeals against Skypath
There have been two appeals against the consent for Skypath. They are from the Northcote Residents Association (NRA) and the Northcote Point Heritage Preservation Society (NPHPS) – a group set up in December last year just to oppose Skypath. Both parties want the entire decision overturned with the NRA also seeking costs.…
SkyPath: Councillor v Advocate
NBR Radio
In which Councillor Cameron Brewer tries extremely hard to find a possible cost to ratepayers in a privately funded and user pays addition to our transport networks, while ignoring the real cost of $13m to ratepayers for a free-to-use walking and cycle project in his ward [just one example].…
The Skypath decision
I’m still buzzing over the fantastic news that consent for Skypath was approved this morning. What makes it even better is reading the decision of the commissioners. It appears to be a comprehensive result and leaves no doubt that this project is both good and satisfactorily addresses the concerns local residents have raised.…
A great day for Auckland – Skypath Approved
It’s just been announced that consent has been approved for Skypath. I’ll have a closer look at the details shortly but for now it’s time to celebrate, this is a great day for Auckland. Well done to everyone involved and a huge thank you to Bevan Woodward and his team who have tireless campaigned and pushed this project forward.…
Skypath Consent Recommended
In a month the resource consent hearings for Skypath begin and while we don’t know what the outcome will be, the project had a big boost this week from the release of the council’s RMA report into the application. The project received massive feedback from the public – both directly and through the submission form from Generation Zero.…
Selling Skypath is simple, make it easy
This is a guest post from Ryan Mearns of Generation Zero
On Wednesday the 14th of January just over 5,000 people received an email asking them to submit in support of the resource consent for Skypath using a quick submission form.…
Last Chance to submit on Skypath
If you haven’t already, you’re running out of time to put a submission in for Skypath with submissions closing today. If you want the full details of the proposal you can find all of the details here.
Submitting is really important as some of the locals (but not all) on either side of the bridge are opposed to the project as highlighted in this piece from One News a few days ago.…
Submit for Skypath
Guest Post from Ryan Mearns, Communications Director of Generation Zero
After a decade of massive work by the SkyPath team, we’re at the stage where our input really counts! The resource consent is in and submissions closes in just over a week!…
2014 – A Year in Review Part 2 – Walking and Cycling
In the second in my series of posts wrapping up the year I will look at Walking and Cycling
There have been a couple of major projects but in many ways not that much seems to have been done with most of progress being on proposed projects that have yet to start construction.…
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