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.…
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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.…
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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.…
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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.…
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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.…
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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.…
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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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