Weekly Roundup 04-April-2025
On a very wet Friday, we hope you have somewhere nice and warm and dry to sit and catch up on our roundup of some of this week’s top stories in transport and urbanism.
The header image shows Northcote Intermediate Students strolling across the Te Ara Awataha Greenway Bridge in Northcote, courtesy of Auckland Council via Our Auckland.…
Weekly Roundup 28-March-2025
Today’s another Friday, and we are almost at the end of March. Here’s another roundup of stories that caught our eye this week. This week in Greater Auckland On Tuesday, Connor pointed out that people tend to like people-friendly cities.
On Wednesday, Matt looked at the stadium proposals, and their level of feasibility.…
Weekly Roundup 21-March-2025
Another Friday, hope everyone’s enjoyed their week as we head toward the autumn equinox. Here’s another roundup of stories that caught our eye on the subject of cities and what makes them even better. This week in Greater Auckland On Monday, Connor took a look at how Auckland Transport has failed on Mercury Lane – and the lessons that should be learned.…
Weekly Roundup 14-March-2025
Midway through March already? The year is flying by. Here’s some things we saw this week that caught our attention. This week in Greater Auckland On Tuesday Matt took a look at AT’s Upper Harbour bus route changes.
For Wednesday we had a guest post by Malcolm McCracken exploring what else is needed to maximise the value of CRL.…
Weekly Roundup 7-March-2025
The first Friday of March, and it’s definitely been madder on the transport network this week. Here’s some things we saw this week that were interesting. This week in Greater Auckland On Monday Connor did a deep dive into Auckland’s speed limit reversals.…
Weekly Roundup 28-February-2025
It’s Friday and we’re are the end of February already meaning here comes March Madness. Here too are some of the things that caught our attention this week. This week in Greater Auckland On Monday Matt covered parts of a fantastic speech by Chris Bishop.…
Weekly Roundup 21-February-2025
It’s Friday and we’re getting closer to March Madness when our transport system is at it’s busiest. Before then, here are some of the things that caught our attention this week. This week in Greater Auckland On Monday Matt covered the first test train through the CRL.…
Weekly Roundup 14-February-2025
Already halfway through February, but welcome to another Friday! Some exciting news this week in Auckland. This week in Greater Auckland On Monday Matt took an in-depth look into Auckland’s 2024 bus ridership numbers.
On Wednesday Matt highlighted a few points on Thursday’s Transport, Resilience and Infrastructure Committee at Auckland Council.…
Council’s one neat TRIC to fix AT?
Tomorrow the council’s Transport, Resilience and Infrastructure Committee meet and agenda has a few interesting papers. Council’s Letter of Expectation to Auckland Transport
Every year the council provide a Letter of Expectation to Auckland Transport which is part of the process for informing AT of the council’s priorities and feed into AT’s Statement of Intent of what they plan to do for the year and council will be approving the latest one in this meeting.…
Weekly Roundup 7-February-2025
It’s been an eventful week as always, so here’s a few things that we have found interesting. We also hope everyone had a happy and relaxing Waitangi Day! This week in Greater Auckland
We’re still running on summer time, but provided two chewy posts: On Tuesday, a guest post by Nicolas Reid discussed the use of gondolas for mass transit.…
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