Klimaschutz
This is a guest post by Ella Kay.
Last month, the German government announced a €54b (NZ$96 b) klimaschutz (climate protection) package to address climate change. The plan comes in response to growing pressure on the German government to step up to the climate challenge, as Germany comes closer to 2020 with only a third of CO2 emissions reduced (from a 1990 baseline).…
38 Comments 2019 Auckland Mayoral Election Policy Roundup
The local body elections feel like they’ve been dragging on all year but they finally to an end on Saturday. To me this election feels like there’s been a lot more heat than light and I guess I’m not the only one given that so far, we’re tracking for the lowest number of votes since Auckland was amalgamated in 2010 with as of last Friday just 15.1% of people (162k) having voted.…
Flashback Saturday: What is Auto-Dependency?
Every weekend we dig into the archives. This post by Matt was originally published in January 2014.
In my post on Wednesday about the impact that garages have on neighbourhoods there ended up being quite a bit of discussion on the term auto-dependency.…
Weekly Roundup 4/10/19
Every week we see a heap of articles about transport. We will cover some of them but a lot we don’t. So I thought it might be a good idea to cover some of these in case you missed them. Let me know what you think as I may make this a regular post.…
AT slashing bus services
Before getting into this post, I thought I’d highlight a few important factors: Public transport is growing rapidly, having recently passed 100 million trips.
There is strong public support for more and better public transport.
There is strong political support for more and better public transport – although more on that later.…
In need of champions
Yesterday it was revealed that the Council’s Design Champion, Ludo Campbell Reid has resigned.
Auckland Council’s General Manager of the Auckland Design Office, Ludo Campbell-Reid, has resigned from his role and will depart on Friday, 4 October.
Ludo has served Auckland for 13 years – he was appointed Auckland City Council’s first ever Design Champion in 2006 following recommendations of The Mayoral Task Force on Urban Design.…
The good, the adequate and the downright bad
This is a post by Paul Callister and Heidi O’Callahan.
The Hon. Shane Jones, Minister for Regional Development, is supporting airports with the Provincial Growth Fund. Has he analysed which transport mode provides the best regional development outcomes? We’ve laid out some environmental and access reasons for a national network of passenger rail, bus, shuttle and supporting active mode infrastructure.…
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