Last day to support the refreshed City Centre Masterplan
Over the last month the council have been consulting on their ideas for refreshing the City Centre Masterplan (CCMP). Today is the final day for submissions. Submitting is easy and can be done in just a few minutes so jump on in.…
10 Comments A miracle on High Street
Over the last few days the council have shown that miracles can happen, even if they’re somewhat belated, with High St finally starting to be transformed into a more people friendly space.
To tie in with Art Week, the council have implemented the first stage in a trial give more space to pedestrians.…
ATs Speed Limit change options
After months of delays, next week the Auckland Transport board are set to make a decision on the proposal to change the speed limits on 700km of roads that they consulted on earlier this year. That 700km of roads was largely in rural areas but also included the proposal to make the entire city centre 30km/h.…
Disappearing traffic on 14th Street
We like to keep an eye on what’s going on in the world of transport overseas as it can help inform discussion of what happens here and one of the most interesting recent examples comes to us from New York. The city is well known for its subway system which in the year to the end of June carried over 2.6 billion trips but buses also play a significant role and over the same period, MTA buses carried another 700 million trips.…
Ready-Made Council Plans At Your Service
Thank you, local government candidates. The sacrifice of your time, energy and privacy is deeply appreciated, whether or not you achieved the position you sought. Your standing provided us with choice. I believe the election has delivered a good team of representatives to help keep this city ticking along and improving.…
2019 Council Election Results
After months of campaigning, debates, the elections are finally over.
Here are the preliminary results some may change when the final results come in. Apparently today’s votes will be added in tomorrow and special votes on Thursday.
Mayor
Phil Goff retains his mayoralty with 156k votes (48%) to John Tamihere’s 70k.…
Weekly Roundup 11-Oct-19
Last week’s weekly roundup seemed popular so here it is again.
CRL Open Day
City Rail Link are giving 10,000 people the chance to walk through the CRL tunnels they’ve built to date.
Aucklanders will have the opportunity next month to walk a section of the 3.45-kilometre-long tunnels being built for the City Rail Link project.…
Planning and transport postcard from Japan
This is a guest post from reader Malcolm M
One of the first things noticeable to Western tourists visiting Japanese cities is how little traffic there is. Here is the morning peak on the main street of Ginza, Tokyo. Instead it’s crowded on the subway line beneath the street, and plenty of people walk from the subway station to their destination.…
The Super Fund Light Rail Scam
The lack of delivery on Light Rail in Auckland has been a source of a lot of frustration. The most recent news was back in August when the government announced it had taken the bizarre step of pitting the NZTA and the NZ Super Fund along with their Canadian partners off against each other.…
Planning Successful Cities: Submission Guide
This is a guest post by Stephen Davis. It was first published on City Beautiful on 30 September 2019.
Introduction
In my previous piece I talked about the proposal by the Ministry for the Environment (MfE) to direct local councils to allow for more intensification, through a device called a National Policy Statement.…
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