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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Weekly Roundup 31-January-2025

It may have been a short week but there’s been no shortage of things that caught our attention. Here is some of the most interesting. This week in Greater Auckland On Tuesday Matt took a look at public transport ridership in 2024 On Thursday Connor asked some questions for the government on speed limit increases This post, like all our work, is brought to you by a largely volunteer crew and made possible by generous donations from our readers and fans.…
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Weekly Roundup 24-January-2025

It’s Friday and we’ve got Auckland Anniversary weekend ahead of us so we’ve pulled together a bumper crop of things that caught our attention this week. This post, like all our work, is brought to you by a largely volunteer crew and made possible by generous donations from our readers and fans.…
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Weekly Roundup 10-January-2025

Welcome back to our weekly roundup. We hope you had a good break (if you had one). Here’s a few of the stories that caught our attention over the last few weeks. This holiday period on Greater Auckland Since our last roundup we’ve: Taken a look back at the key things that happened in 2024 Covered some of important things due to happen in 2025 The Minister’s view on Auckland Stuff has an interview with Minister for Auckland and Minister of Transport, Simeon Brown: “We’ve delivered a lot for Auckland and it’s certainly been our focus as a Government,” Simeon Brown says in an interview with Stuff at his electorate office in Pakuranga.…
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2025 – The Year Ahead

Welcome to 2025. After wrapping up 2024, here’s a look at some of the things we can expect to see this year along with a few predictions. Council and Elections Elections One of the biggest things this year will be local body elections in October.…
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2024 – A Year in Review

Well, it’s the last day of the year, so it’s time for a quick wrap-up of the most important things that happened in 2024 for urbanism and transport in our city. A huge thank you to everyone who has visited the blog and supported us in our mission to make a greater Tāmaki Makaurau.…
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