Live Q&A event with CityNerd and Greater Auckland Thursday 27th February
Greater Auckland is excited to announce we are holding an event at 5pm on Thursday 27th February at the Ellen Melville Centre with Ray Delahanty, also known as CityNerd. Paid subscribers ($15) of the Substack will have access to free tickets, or tickets are available for purchase here at $20.…
3 Comments Book review: ‘How to Fly a Horse’ by Kevin Ashton
This is a guest post by George Weeks, reviewing a book called ‘How to Fly a Horse’ by Kevin Ashton Book review: ‘How to Fly a Horse’ by Kevin Ashton (2015) – and what it means for Auckland.
The title of this article might unnerve any Greater Auckland connoisseur.…
Public Transport Ridership in 2024 – Part 1
How did public transport ridership perform in 2024, where has the post-COVID recovery been the strongest and weakest, and how does Auckland compare to other cities? Those and more are questions that I’ll answer over a few posts.
In this first post, I’m taking a look at the high-level numbers.…
2024 sets some new road safety records
Last year, 292 people died unnecessarily on our roads. That is the lowest result in over a decade and only the fourth time in the last 70 years we’ve seen fewer than 300 deaths in a calendar year. Yet, while it is 292 people too many, with each death being a tragedy for the family and friends of those lost, in terms of fatalities this is also arguably the best (least worst) year on the roads that New Zealand has yet seen.…
Hamilton Central Station: Britomart 2.0
Patrick Reynolds is deputy chair of the Auckland City Centre Advisory Panel and a director of Greater Auckland
In 2003, after much argument, including the election of a Mayor in 2001 who ran on stopping it, Britomart train station in downtown Auckland opened.…
Book Review: How Big Things Get Done
This is a guest post by George Weeks, reviewing a book called How Big Things Get Done by Bent Flyvbjerg and Dan Gardner Want to know how to do something big? Ask someone who has done it before! Professor Bent Flyvbjerg has spent his career studying megaprojects.…
Why you won’t hear me advocate for electric cars
This is a guest post by Tim Adriaansen, a community, climate, and accessibility advocate. I won’t shut up about climate breakdown, and whenever possible I try to shift the focus of a climate conversation towards solutions. But you’ll almost never hear me give more than a passing nod to electric cars.…
Book Review: The Future Embraced
This is a guest post by George Weeks, reviewing a book called The Future Embraced by Kobus Mentz The Future Embraced is more than a book. It is an accumulation of 50 years of work, 13 years in the making. It takes the tone of a mentor, reflecting the accumulated experiences of a life well lived.…
Kirikiriroa Rising
This post is essentially an update on a very similar one I wrote seven years ago. Hamilton: City of the Future, the intervening years have confirmed those speculations. The case for good passenger rail service between our biggest city and its fast growing neighbour remains compelling.…
Going in circles: How to fix transport in the City Centre
The last few years have seen headline after headline talk about how much of a ‘mess’ the City Centre is in terms of transport. Whether it be parking, confusing bus lanes (and buses being held up), the GV lane on Queen Street, loading and delivery, enforcement (or lack thereof), congestion, safety, driving, walking, cycling, or more, there seems to be no end of issues with how we are addressing our transport needs.…
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