We can have beautiful things!
As anticipation ramps up for the imminent opening of the CRL, the areas around the stations are coming to life.
Larger than life, even! Yesterday morning saw the unveiling of a magnificent 7.2m high bronze sculpture of a tuna kūwharuwharu (longfin eel) at the intersection of Victoria and Queen Streets.…
3 Comments CRL Visits and Timetables
While we still wait to find out the date the City Rail Link will finally open, Auckland Transport yesterday released the timetables that will be used, and announced public ‘First Look’ events at the stations. First Look Events
AT will be opening up the stations, one weekend at a time, for people to look through.…
Five years to restore safer* speeds in Auckland?
Tomorrow’s meeting of Auckland Council’s Transport and Infrastructure Delivery Committee (TIDC) has some interesting items. One that particularly stands out for me is in the Auckland Transport update.
And it’s on the Safe Speeds Programme. Aucklanders yearn for a return to evidence-based speeds
A year on from Auckland Transport’s mindbogglingly widespread implementation of Simeon Brown’s 2024 Speed Rule, they report that they have recently been hard at work on – and making some progress on – returning some streets and roads to more safe speeds.…
Weekly Roundup 24-July-2026
It’s Friday again, and here we are with our roundup of the week’s most intriguing stories from the realms of cities and transport. Enjoy! This Week in Greater Auckland On Monday, we had a guest post from Pippa Coom about the power of Local Board Plans.…
Western Line Level Crossing Early Challenges and Feedback
A few months ago Auckland Transport finally started talking about the need to replace level crossings on the Western Line – something I think will become glaringly obvious in a few months once the City Rail Link opens, especially when frequencies increase, likely early next year.…
Revised PC120 Passed by Auckland Council
After a five-hour long meeting yesterday, Auckland Council passed amendments to Plan Change 120, enabling greater intensity of housing in designated locations. (Below is the video of the whole meeting – at the end of this post clips breaking it into five parts, for your viewing at leisure.)…
Quick! Speak up for Local Board Three-Year Plans
Keen to influence what happens in your community? Give feedback on your Local Board’s three-year plan, now open for consultation. In short: if the local board hasn’t put it in the plan, it’s not going to happen.
Feedback closes at the end of the day, this Thursday 23 July 2026, so get in quick!…
Weekly Roundup 17-July-2026
We hope everyone has had a great week after the long weekend! Here is a collection of all things cities and transport to enjoy! This Week in Greater Auckland On Monday, Matt went into how the government has finally admitted the reality of the RoNS
On Tuesday, Patrick wrote about our interview last year with Len Brown, and how the CRL happened.…
Build this beautiful, affordable and visionary new bridge
The following is an op-ed which ran in the Sunday Star Times and online in The Post on July 12th 2026.
You can find more information about the bridge proposal here. The way we routinely approach big transport problems is broken.…
How we got the CRL
Late last year I sat down outside Waitematā Station with the Godfather of the CRL to discuss how he did it, plus some further ruminations on our city’s development.
As we count down to the opening of the City Trail Link, just a matter of weeks now, it is really interesting to go back over how the project was fought for and finally approved.…
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