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• Weekly Roundup 20-December-2024
• Book Review: How Big Things Get Done
• December-24 AT Board Meeting
• Govt to double number of toll roads
• Why you won’t hear me advocate for electric cars
• Weekly Roundup 13-December-2024
• When Should You Consider Retreat? – The Sooner the Better
• Does AT misunderstand the government’s new PT targets?
• Book Review: The Future Embraced
• Simeon Brown’s fanaticism kills Warkworth intersection fix
• Weekly Roundup 06-December-2024
• Kirikiriroa Rising
• Auckland Transport (mostly) goneburger
• Gt North Rd improvements to finally start
• Going in circles: How to fix transport in the City Centre
• Weekly Roundup 29-November-2024
• Love your Berm
• NZTA pushing for PT fare hikes and service cuts
• What to do about Auckland Transport?
• A visitor from the Hawkes Bay rides AT’s buses & trains.
• Weekly Roundup 22-November-2024
• Throwback Thursday: Will “Auckland Transport” Survive?
• Transport modelling is an illusion
• How should we talk about change?
• A clearer network for the City Rail Link?
• Thank you, driver!
• Weekly Roundup 15-November-2024
• Time and Space in the City Centre
• Western Express turns one in style
• 150 days of rail disruption to come
• Speeding toward a lethal legacy
• Weekly Roundup 7-November-2024
• Throwback Thursday: 10 Years
• What should AT do with PT for Whangaparaoa after Penlink Opens
• Auckland’s 2025 PT Fare Increases
• A Fresh Horizon for Greater Auckland
• Weekly Roundup 1-November-2024
• First section of Te Ha Noa Opens
• Henderson Station Upgrade but will it Improve Customer Experience
• October-24 AT Board Meeting
• Weekly Roundup 25-October-2024
• What if Instagram girlies planned Auckland?
• Is the Isthmus becoming a retirement village?
• Safer, Smarter, Sooner: about these concrete tim tams…
• Time for a Transfer of Power in Entrust
• Weekly Roundup 18-October-2024
• Auckland Harbour Bridge is collapsing*
• Auckland to see biggest PT improvements in six years
• First judicial review for the Minister of Transport
• Who benefits from secrecy around public infrastructure?
• Weekly Roundup 11-October-2024
• 130 years of growth in NZ cities
• Getting the rail network up to speed
• Talk Wellington takes a pause
• 2023 Census first look: how we travel to work and school
• Weekly Roundup 4-October-2024
• Throwback Thursday: a Low Traffic Neighbourhood by any other name…
• How will Auckland Council address the cycling budget shortfall?
• Stealth mode: the surprisingly powerful city-centre access hack
• Is this our least worldly Minister of Transport?
• Weekly Roundup 27-September-2024
• Minister ignored widespread concern about GPS
• Nine public transit lessons from Perth
• The Mayor’s Plan for Bridging the Harbour
• A vision for Swimmable Cities
• Weekly Roundup 20-September-2024
• Managing on-street parking for local benefit
• Postcard from Sydney: Southwest and City Metro extension
• Make it make sense: why axe valuable local projects?
• Why Entrust Needs New Leadership
• Weekly Roundup 13-September-2024
• Cross-party consensus: there’s no pipeline without good faith
• Northern Expressway Boondoggle
• Our transport planning system is fundamentally broken
• Could outdoor dining revitalise Queen Street?
• Weekly Roundup 6-September-2024
• Satisfying the Minister’s Speed Obsession
• What if we freed up our streets, again?
• NLTP 2024 released – destroying pipeline of shovel ready local projects
• Container trucks on local streets: why take the risk?
• Weekly Roundup 30-August-2024
• Throwback Thursday: The Great Auckland Transport Debate
• The Policy and Memory Vortex
• Northwest Busway Next Steps
• Neurodiversity in urbanism
• Weekly Roundup 23-August-2024
• The Government Declares Total War on Localism
• Speak up on the Emission Reduction Plan – by Sunday 25 August
• In praise of crosstown buses: refreshing the OuterLink
• Road Policing Reduction
• Weekly Roundup 16-August-2024
• Let your city flourish: mixing it up with mixed-use
• Auckland’s Frequent Transit Network hits 40 routes
• Congestion Pricing to move forward
• Te Ara Tukutuku Concept Plans
• Weekly Roundup 9-August-2024
• Three lessons for Auckland from Transport for London
• Road deaths are falling – let’s keep doing that
• Of Boundaries and Balance: Redrawing Auckland Council Wards
• A dream of roads for rail and streets for people
• Weekly Roundup 2-August-2024
• Which zones enable the most apartment projects?
• Could we “Ghentify” Auckland? A report from Velo-city 2024
• Parking up in the RLTP
• Weekly Roundup 26-July-2024
• Throwback Thursday – Thinking about Expressways
• Levelling up the Takaanini LXR project
• Waimahara: The Singing Spirit of Water
• A speed limit is not a target, and yet…
• Weekly Roundup 19-July-2024
• Connecting the dots and filling the gaps in our bike network
• A blanket of misinformation
• How the Northwest was lost and may be won
• City Centre Rebuild: How Soon Is Now?
• Weekly Roundup 12-July-2024
• By George! Splendid streets take shape down south
• Why is the Government flooring it on unsafe speeds?
• KiwiRail at Council’s Transport & Infrastructure Committee
• Going for Housing Growth: Filling the housing donut?
• Weekly Roundup 5-July-2024
• Speak up for safe speeds
• Government ignorant of local transport needs
• Water Streets: transport infrastructure that makes space for water
• Matariki on K’ Road: the proof is in the people
• Was the 2024 Auckland RLTP Competition Rigged?
• Some fine ideas for making Aotearoa safer
• June-24 AT Board Meeting
• Greater Auckland 2.0 – we need your help!
• Weekly Roundup 21-June-2024
• The Stadium Debate – What About the Transport Options?
• How good is the interim NW busway?
• Raised crossings: hearing the voice of vulnerable pedestrians
• You do have the power to change things
• Weekly Roundup 14-June-2024
• Our guide to having your say on the draft RLTP 2024
• Six ideas to secure Te Huia’s Future
• Building better housing insights
• In Defence of Kāinga Ora
• Weekly Roundup 7-June-2024
• A Better Broadway: Act 2
• A Better Broadway: Act 1
• Budget 2024 Highlights
• Weekly Roundup 31-May-24
• In praise of alleyways and paths through parks
• Gas Station watch
• Children’s Voices in Auckland’s Future
• May-24 AT Board Meeting
• Weekly Roundup 24-May-2024
• Photo of the Day: GNR
• How Government’s road obsession is ruining Auckland’s transport plans
• After much debate, the Auckland Future Fund was approved. So what should it be used for?
• Weekly Roundup 17-May-2024
• NZUP RORS back to life
• Wayne Brown’s PT Plan
• Will NZ Herald’s ‘poor journalism’ cost lives?
• Weekly Roundup 10-May-2024
• A few PT announcements
• The future of Te Huia
• On the LTP 2024 Feedback
• Weekly Roundup 3-May-2024
• New HOP readers for future payment options
• Auckland Rail Electrification 10 years old
• Tolling Existing Roads
• Western Express Success
• Weekly Roundup 19-April-2024
• Texas Lessons
• Long Tunnel or Long Con?
• Weekly Roundup 12-April-2024
• Subsidising illegal parking
• What’s happening with Airport to Botany
• Weekly Roundup 5-April-2024
• The Maddest March since COVID
• Success City
• NZ Government announces ban on walking
• Auckland Council’s astute feedback on the GPS
• Paying for the RoNS like Rail
• Climate change and the Draft GPS
• Have your say on the LTP and GPS this week
• Weekly Roundup 22-March-2024
• Rod Oram: a legacy to live up to
• New Life for Light Rail
• New Rail Operations Centre Promises Better Train Services
• Weekly Roundup 15-March-2024
• Solving traffic congestion with Richard Prebble
• AT Need To Lift Their Game
• Better Event Trains
• Weekly Roundup 8-March-2024
• The GPS is a disaster for local government
• The Government’s Ideological Transport Policy
• Should we build a bridge or tunnel across Cook Strait?
• Weekly Roundup 1-March-2024
• A Market Model for Intercity Rail
• It’s March Madness Time again
• February-24 AT Board Meeting
• Weekly Roundup 23-February-2024
• Auckland’s City Rail Link will fail immediately… in the best possible way
• Will the 2024 RLTP be yet another debacle?
• Weekly Roundup 16-February-2024
• Fuel Tax Fight and Rail Fail update
• Auckland’s Persistent Rail Issues
• The Government’s War on Auckland
• Weekly Roundup 9-February-2024
• Briefings to the Incoming Transport Minister (Simeon Brown)
• Weekly Roundup 2-February-2024
• What should be next for public transport in Auckland
• Why AT should aim high on raised crossings
• Weekly Roundup 26-January-2024
• 2023/24 Summer Rail Works Complete
• New Maps, Old Issues
• Weekly Roundup 19-January-2024
• Straightening the 25 route
• Light Rail officially dies
• 2024 – The Year Ahead
• 2023 – A Year in Review
• Weekly Roundup 22-December-2023
• Better enforcement will stop “bad parking cards”
• Guest Post: Huge Existential Threat For New Zealand’s Rail Network – Yet Again
• Weekly Roundup 15-December-2023
• The climate will (continue to) deliver its own advice
• “Brown-town”: the Wayne & Simeon show
• Weekly Roundup 8-December-2023
• Transport Agencies don’t want Harbour Tunnels
• CRL costs money but also provides huge benefits
• Weekly Roundup 1-December-2023
• Dangling Transport Solutions
• PT use up but fare increases coming
• The New Government’s Agreements
• Weekly Roundup 23-November-2023
• 21st Century City or 20th Century Carpark?
• Councillors: Sell the Downtown Carpark
• Making PT better by experiencing it
• Weekly Roundup 17-November-2023
• Congestion Pricing back on the agenda
• The Western Express is here
• Weekly Roundup 10-November-2023
• Walk or cycle to breathe fewer pollutants
• Waka Kotahi shows its true colours
• Weekly Roundup 3-November-2023
• Flashback: How rail was saved in Auckland
• October-23 AT Board Meeting
• Improving Wellesley St
• Weekly Roundup 27-October-2023
• Book Review: Paved Paradise
• AT looking to get the PT Basics right for growth
• Weekly Roundup 20-October-2023
• New train stations for the Upper North Waikato?
• Looking Back at Labour’s Transport Performance
• Weekly Roundup 13-October-2023
• 2023 Election Transport Policies
• Auckland Derailed – The Next Step
• Who Knew Hop Expires
• Weekly Roundup 06-October-2023
• Level Crossing Removal Groups
• How well do our Rapid Transit Stations perform
• North-western downgrades
• Weekly Roundup 29-September-2023
• Untangling South East Queensland’s Public Transport
• September-23 AT Board Meeting
• CRL Progress – Sep-23
• The Mayor and the ‘Manifesto for Auckland’
• Weekly Roundup 15-September-2023
• The Stadium Debate Again
• How will AT work with Council on the RLTP?
• Weekly Roundup 8-September-2023
• Improving Carrington Rd?
• Labour’s 2023 Election Transport Policy
• What we can expect in the Carrington (UNITEC) Development
• Weekly Roundup 1-September-2023
• Eastern Busway Stage 4 Consultation
• The Auckland Rapid Transit Plan
• August-23 AT Board Meeting
• Proper Northwest Rapid Transit On The Cards
• Weekly Roundup 25-August-2023
• Safer streets around schools: have your say by 28 August
• Light Rail’s Latest Plans for Onehunga and Mangere Town Centre
• AT Pulls the Parking Lever
• Ferry Bad News
• Weekly Roundup 18-August-2023
• The Buses Are Fixed
• Changing Auckland’s “Complex Transport Ecosystem”
• August’s Important Regional Consultations
• The Opportunity Cost of Auckland’s “Big Digs”
• Rail Safety and closing level crossings
• A vision for the Waterfront
• The Harbour Crossing Boondoggle
• Weekly Roundup 04-August-2023
• National’s 2023 Transport Policy
• 2023 Election transport policies we’d like to see
• Weekly Roundup 28-July-2023
• The Pothole Blame Game
• City Centre Transport Update – July-23
• Weekly Roundup 21-July-2023
• The Future Development Strategy
• ATs 2023-2031 Public Transport Plan
• The Bicycle as Climate Hope
• Weekly Roundup 13-July-2023
• Con Job: AT’s Connected Communities debacle
• The latest bus strike
• Western Line is double tracked again
• Weekly Roundup 7-July-2023
• Government encourages illegal parking
• The inter-regional rail inquiry report
• Liberating a Lane stacks up
• Weekly Roundup 30-June-2023
• Fares and Fuel to go back up
• June-23 AT Board Meeting
• AT’s Capital Programme for 2023/24
• Groundhog Day: will AT finally do the right thing on Great North Road?
• Weekly Roundup 23-June-2023
• Light Rail back to the Surface?
• Puhoi to Warkworth opens
• Pedestrian Level Crossing Closure Proposals
• Weekly Roundup 16-June-2023
• It’s time to update parking fines
• Perth’s Rail Journey – from (near) zero to hero
• Pick up the ball and run, AT!
• Weekly Roundup 9-June-2023
• A Hobsonville Rd Cycleway
• The Cost of Cars
• Liberate the Lane on the Auckland Harbour Bridge!
• Weekly Roundup 2-June-2023
• The future of the Medium Density Residential Standards
• Removing the Takanini Level Crossings
• May-23 AT Board Meeting
• National’s Housing Policy Backtrack
• Weekly Roundup 26-May-2023
• CRL Delay Implications for Other Projects
• The end in sight for bus disruption?
• Budget 2023 Highlights
• Weekly Roundup 19-May-2023
• Taking Resilience More Seriously
• AT’s Hobson St consultation with a difference
• Christchurch to finally get Rapid Transit?
• Weekly Roundup 12-May-2023
• It’s time to shine a light on Golden Triangle rail
• Auckland Rain Déjà Vu
• It’s finally time to properly reform KiwiRail
• Weekly Roundup 05-May-2023
• New Values of Time and Life
• Penlink to be Tolled
• Auckland’s Future Transport Projects Consultation
• Wellington rail in the news: on track, and off
• Weekly Roundup 28-April-2023
• Lower North Island Passenger Rail – a tragedy in two parts
• The options considered for the Onehunga Line
• Weekly Roundup 21-April-2023
• Avondale Open Streets – Success
• AT Parks Some of Its Parking Strategy
• Karangahape Done Right
• Reasons to be optimistic about Auckland Transport
• Weekly Roundup 14-April-2023
• Ridership reaches 80 per cent
• Optimising The Strand
• Weekly Roundup – Easter Edition
• Auckland’s Bus Cancellation Crisis Visualised
• Construction for next stage of Eastern Busway starts
• What to do about the Northern Busway
• Leaked emails reveal plan to turn light-rail into a road tunnel
• Weekly Roundup 31-March-2023
• Harbour Crossing Project now estimated to cost $15-25 billion
• Te Hā Noa to Start Construction
• Warkworth and the Cost of Sprawl
• March-23 AT Board Meeting
• Weekly Roundup 24-March-2023
• A miracle pill for our transport ills
• It’s Raining Congestion
• Auckland Council Draft Budget – an unnecessary backwards step
• The motorways are finished
• CRL’s COVID Cost Change
• Government speeds away from the evidence
• Is Auckland Light Rail getting even more off-track?
• Weekly Roundup 10-March-2023
• CRL progress – Mar-23
• Flashback Wednesday: Where do we put our fury and our grief?
• Who doesn’t want to build back better?
• Submit on the Upper Harbour Cycleway Redesign
• Weekly Roundup 03-March-2023
• Initial direction for the next Government Policy Statement released
• New AT chief executive faces existential challenges
• Make buses better to combat March Madness
• 8 Big Questions for AT’s Board
• February-23 AT Board Meeting
• Weekly Roundup 24-February-2023
• AT’s PT plan needs an injection of aspiration
• Unpause the Inner West
• Reducing the costs of PT projects
• Weekly Roundup 17-February-2023
• Expressways and Resilience
• An AT PT update and ATAP by another name
• We need to stop the PT network from slipping
• Weekly Roundup 10-February-2023
• My very first e-bike
• Waterproofing the City
• Managing our stormwater
• Weekly Roundup 03-February-2023
• Government confirms a light rail rethink
• After the deluge – initial thoughts on the Auckland floods
• Weekly Roundup 27-January-2023
• The Mayor on Light Rail
• NIMBYs go BANANAs over young singles in their area
• What are the Rail Network Shutdown Outcomes?
• A different Tunnelled Light Rail Option
• Weekly Roundup 20-January-2023
• Improving AT’s responses to PT disruption
• Rail buses are a pain – but they don’t have to be
• Whatever happened to AT’s “Statements of Imagination”?
• Flashback Saturday: How to fund the CFN and save $14 billion
• Weekly Roundup 13-January-2023
• We need to step up on road safety, not cut targets
• 2023 – The Year Ahead
• 2022 – A Year in Review
• Flashback Saturday: A Congestion Free Network
• Waka Kotahi’s Harbour Bridge Walk and Wheel Events
• Are the NW Bus Improvements that much of an improvement?
• Flashback Saturday: the (rubbish) Integrated Transport Programme
• Weekly Roundup 16-December-2022
• Wayne Brown’s Letter of Expectation to AT
• Auckland needs infrastructure investment to support intensification
• Transport Plan Déjà vu
• Eastern Busway Government Funding Top Up
• Flashback Saturday: Why AWHC is the stupidest transport project ever
• Weekly Roundup 09-December-2022
• Time to rethink Light Rail
• Higher fares and fewer buses on the way?
• CRL Day One plans
• The Transport Choices Package
• Flashback Saturday: AT’s New CEO (again)
• Weekly Roundup 02-December-2022
• The Impact of Half Priced Fares
• Strong support for the Inner West Street Improvements Projects
• December-22 AT Board Meeting
• Auckland Derailed – Southern Line mitigation
• Weekly Roundup 25-November-2022
• Who pays when roads and parking are “free” to use?
• New Drury Stations Design Consultation
• Why we should upgrade Swanson, not Henderson for the CRL
• Weekly Roundup 18-November-2022
• Auckland, Derailed – The Documents
• Resource management reform moves to next phase
• Auckland Council’s new governance structure
• New Harbour Crossing Survey
• Weekly Roundup 11-November-2022
• Why extend the Wynyard Tram?
• A few more ideas to plug the council’s revenue gap
• The real work begins for Auckland Council
• Mode share isn’t set in stone
• Weekly Roundup 04 November 2022
• Kidical Mass: the future on wheels
• A minimum viable light rail for Auckland
• AT to remove cancelled buses from timetables
• Mapping changes in Auckland’s youngish adult population
• Concerning news coming out of Auckland Transport
• A visit to Karanga-a-hape
• A new National Ticketing System
• Wayne Brown’s expectations of AT
• Flashback Saturday: The next decade
• Weekly Roundup 21-October-2022
• Inter-Regional Rail Inquiry Submission
• Public transport in Auckland is beyond a joke right now
• Shifting Freight from Road to Rail
• European cities were once as car-choked as ours
• Flashback Saturday: The Last Decade
• Weekly Roundup 14-October-2022
• Auckland Derailed – Surprise Edition
• The Upper Harbour Options
• Staying on track during railway closures
• Dear Wayne
• 2022 Council Election Results
• Flashback Saturday: Better cities mean a wealthier New Zealand
• Weekly Roundup 07-October-2022
• Auckland, Derailed – Part 2
• A map of Auckland’s Frequent Transit Network in 2025
• Auckland, Derailed
• Henderson and Rathgar Cycle Consultation
• Flashback Saturday: NW Busway update
• Weekly Roundup 30-September-2022
• Lifting our game for systems change – project by project
• PT Ridership is starting to recover – again
• The government’s performance on transport – 5 years on
• Flashback Saturday: Freeing us from traffic
• Weekly Roundup 23-September-22
• Midtown Streets Regeneration starting soon
• Temporary Traffic Management for a better city
• Vote, March and Motivate
• Submit on Reshaping Streets
• Flashback Saturday: Auckland’s city centre is getting more diverse
• Weekly Roundup 16-September-2022
• Neighbourhoods: the missing ingredient
• Here, have some hardcore fantasising
• The Notified Unitary Plan Revision
• Activity Classes are not the Strategic Direction
• Flashback Saturday: Auckland can’t afford to price out its young
• Weekly Roundup 09-September-2022
• No Mobility / No Travel
• Streets for People: more agile projects on the way
• We need a smarter response from the Auckland Business Chamber
• Building Consents in July-22
• Weekly Roundup 02-September-2022
• Southern Level Crossing Removal
• Small steps towards a level playing field
• Too little, too late: what now for safety?
• Cycling over Auckland’s harbour(s)
• Flashback Saturday: Ridesharing is making traffic worse
• Weekly Roundup 26-August-2022
• Bikes vs cars (per capita)
• August-22 AT Board Meeting
• Getting [some] cars out of [part of] Queen Street – Part 2
• Turning over a new leaf
• Flashback Saturday: City Rail Link to be future-proofed
• Weekly Roundup 19-August-2022
• Taking a trip with Germany’s €9 ticket
• The Sustainable Public Transport Framework
• The TERP: A Pathway to a Flourishing Future
• Inter-Regional Rail Inquiry
• Flashback Saturday: Good Density
• Weekly Roundup 12-August-2022
• AA Congestion Charge Survey
• Removing red tape to make it easier to reshape streets
• Can a different route fix tunneled light rail?
• Flashback Saturday: The “Progressive NIMBY” conundrum
• Weekly Roundup 05-August-2022
• Upping safety on Upper Harbour Drive
• Tunnel Vision vs the Big Picture
• More Homes vs Light Rail
• Why we need to reduce VKT
• Flashback Saturday: Road Building Brouhaha
• Weekly roundup 29-July-2022
• How To Fix Cars
• A Greater Gt North Rd Coming Soon
• The latest on Airport to Botany
• A seawall with a cycleway on top
• Flashback Saturday: Auckland Transport’s Parking Nonsense
• Weekly Roundup 22-July-2022
• Federal St Stage 2 Complete
• Supporting Sprawl in the North
• Efeso Collins’ Transport Policy
• Ferry Changes and Fuel Tax discount extension
• Flashback Saturday: Road to Zero – the new road safety strategy
• Weekly Roundup 15-July-2022
• A Hollow Victory for Auckland Council
• Cancelled Buses
• Waikato Expressway Speed Limit Raising
• Biofuels in New Zealand – A Solution or a Problem?
• Flashback Saturday: The power of disruption
• Weekly Roundup 08-July-2022
• Clearing the Air on Vision Zero
• Getting [some] cars out of [part of] Queen Street
• Viv Beck’s Transport Policy
• Regional Trains and Electrification
• Weekly Roundup 01-July-2022
• June AT Board Meeting
• The real barriers to road safety
• Light Rail’s Sponsored Defence
• Abolish Zoning?
• Weekly Roundup 23-June-22
• What’s happening with PT ridership
• Penlink To Start
• The Onehunga Line Change
• Weekly Roundup 17-June-2022
• Ain’t no party like a car-truck party
• Minister, while you’re there
• Another cycleway beat-up
• Switching sides: Sweden did it, should we?
• Weekly Roundup 10-June-2022
• Downtown Bus Interchange Closes Again
• A tale of two paths
• Why cities should make space for urban green
• Weekly Roundup 03-June-2022
• Queen Street’s Nine Lives
• How many people need to die for Auckland Transport to act?
• Pushing past the barriers to the Auckland Harbour Bridge
• AA calls for more roads
• Weekly roundup 27-May-2022
• A HOP too far? The end of cash fares
• Why is this still happening in 2022?
• Don’t Look Up
• Budget 2022 Highlights
• Weekly Roundup 20-May-2022
• A walk to the park
• Supporting Sprawl in the Northwest and Warkworth
• The Emissions Reduction Plan
• What we expect and want to see from the ERP
• A harbour Gondola?
• Would AT Rethink the Eastern Busway?
• Congestion Pricing Green Light?
• CRL Final Station Designs and Names
• Protecting Tāmaki Makaurau’s Urban Character
• Weekly Roundup 06-May-2022
• Committing to the CAM-PBC
• Unpicking the method behind Council’s SCA assessments
• We need to build our bike network much cheaper and faster
• More on Maioro
• Weekly Roundup 29-April-2022
• Northern Busway Extension Opens Soon
• Electric Ferries for Auckland
• A Proposition for East Auckland
• Weekly roundup 22-April-2022
• Time to end our safer speeds experiment?
• Unitary Plan 2.0 Pre-consultation
• Through-Routing Buses
• Weekly roundup 14-April-2022
• Luxon’s Subsidy Slip
• From newsflash to carwash: climate coverage in the media
• Clean Car Scheme now live, now include e-bikes
• Weekly Roundup 8-April-2022
• New North Rd Consultation Closes Tomorrow
• What about a Wairau Valley Station?
• West Auckland’s proposed new ‘New Network’
• We need better PT to go with the cheaper fares
• The End of Greater Auckland
• New Lynn to Avondale: a peek through the chain-link fence
• March-22 AT Board Meeting
• ATs Parking Strategy Refresh nears Consultation
• Regional Public Transport
• Weekly Roundup 25-March-2022
• Wanted: Change Agent
• The IEAs 10-Point Plan for less oil
• Trucks not paying ‘fair share
• Delivering Climate Action in Auckland
• Weekly Roundup 18-March-2022
• AT’s Coronial Rebuke
• Auckland’s emerging, but sadly ignored, Rapid Transit Plan
• Government Drops PT Fares and Fuel Tax
• Genuine Streets for People
• Weekly Roundup 11-March-2022
• Bus changes for Rosedale Station
• High Fuel Prices Highlight Why We Need Better Alternatives
• Where do we put our fury and our grief?
• Building Local
• Weekly roundup 04-March-2022
• Speed Limit Consultation – Phase 3
• “No, Minister”
• A Newer New North Road
• The Pros and Cons of past CRL proposals
• Weekly Roundup 25-February-2022
• A Ferry Impractical Idea
• February-22 AT Board Meeting
• A New Commissioner for Active Travel
• Making the Unitec Development Fit for the Future
• Weekly Roundup 18-February-2022
• Is Hydrogen New Zealand’s Next Big Thing?
• Next steps for light rail
• Tinkering with rather than Transforming of our City Arterials
• The Light Rail Indicative Business Case
• Weekly Roundup 11-February-2022
• A case of creeping scope creep…
• Local Walking and Cycling Bridges
• Beyond pandemic streets
• Weekly Roundup 4-Feb-2022
• Why is nothing happening with Bus Improvements to the Northwest?
• The East Tamaki Industrial Area
• Sooo… Tunnelled Light Rail
• Weekly Roundup 28-Jan-2022
• We should not accept any road deaths
• What I’m looking out for in the government’s light-rail announcement
• A Safer Course
• The future of cars is electric, but our future is not cars
• Weekly roundup 21-January-2022
• Penlink Tolling Consultation
• Lifting Vision Zero from footnote to top of mind
• Turning the Waka Around
• 2022 Rail Shutdown Nearly Over
• Ferry Fail
• Waka Kotahi scared of too much mode shift
• 2022 – The Year Ahead
• 2021 – A Year in Review
• AT’s CEO Resigns
• Eastern Busway Opens
• Weekly Roundup 17-December-2021
• Alternative Futures of Parking Buildings: Part One
• Bring on the Density
• Let’s Discuss Priorities
• PT: When things go wrong
• Weekly roundup 10-December-2021
• The challenge for urban agriculture in Auckland
• December-21 AT Board Meeting
• Streets for People [take two]: 2021-2024
• Goff’s Climate Package
• Weekly Roundup 3-December-2021
• Debunking Leafy Suburban Myths
• Is Tunnelled Light Rail the Worst of Both Worlds?
• How to get to the beach (without ruining it for everyone)
• Why is street innovation so hard?
• Weekly Roundup 26-November-2021
• AT Making Painted Cycle Lanes Safer
• An anti-housing Trojan horse
• Mode-shifting services and deliveries
• Eastern Busway Stage 2 Design Consultation
• Weekly Roundup 19-November-2021
• What’s wrong with this picture
• Your next car should be a bike
• AT Parking’s tail vigorously wagging the strategy dog
• Lessons for Light Rail from City Rail Link’s Past
• Weekly Roundup 12-November-2021
• The Papakura to Pukekohe upgrade
• Futile Councillors Fight An Affordable Future
• The Minister’s View on Light Rail
• ATs Parking Strategy Review Strategic Direction
• Weekly Roundup 05-November-2021
• Creating green density with Ecological Build Zones
• Seeing the light on Light Rail
• Wellington’s latest transport plans
• Liveable Arterials
• Light rail veers off course
• The Shift to Secrecy is Damaging Transport Outcomes
• October-21 AT Board Meeting
• Yes! We can do all those sorts of things.
• Weekly Roundup 22-October-2021
• Who will turn the transport supertanker around?
• The Great Intensification
• Improving the speed of our trains and access to them
• The Entrust Election – Climate, Democracy and Better Streets
• Weekly Roundup 15-October-2021
• Students Reinventing Northcote
• Draft Emissions Reduction Plan released
• What might the playful city look like?
• Auckland Transport’s 2021 Speed Limit Change Proposal
• Weekly Roundup 08-October-2021
• Clawing Back the Cost of Sprawl
• Using Deliberative Democracy to explore the future of Auckland’s water supply
• Why is induced demand still ignored?
• Northern Pathway dies
• Weekly Roundup 01-October-2021
• September-21 Board Meeting
• Kid’s-eye view of a waterfront ride
• Midtown Regeneration
• How do our Fares Compare
• Weekly Roundup 24-September-2021
• The Latest Queen St Design
• Kāpiti Coast and Horowhenua – Planning for a High Carbon Future
• Auckland Light Rail suggest Light Rail in Auckland
• Auckland Transport Protects Children From Mandarin Hazard
• Weekly Roundup 17-September-2021
• A test case for Vision Zero and climate action in Mt Roskill
• Shining a Light into some Dark Places
• Levin to Wellington, one EMU at a time
• Everyone Should Care About Urbanism, and Here’s Why
• Weekly Roundup 10-September-2021
• Branding our Rapid Transit Network
• The National Land Transport Programme 2021-24
• Road pricing: a boost for Auckland’s transit?
• A Low Traffic Neighbourhood by any other name…
• Weekly Roundup 3-September-2021
• Pricing and Rail Operators
• Would You Like Cars with That?
• New in the Neighbourhood
• How we’d build Light Rail
• Weekly roundup 27-Aug-2021
• Nothing is happening in Auckland’s city centre
• August-21 AT Board Meeting
• An Alternative North Shore Rail Crossing Route
• The Ministry of Education
• Weekly Roundup 20-Aug-21
• Lockdown streets: here we go again
• What caused our rail network problems
• A Mill Rd Alternative
• Turbo-charging the TERP
• Weekly Roundup 13-Aug-21
• Regional Streets for People
• Glen Innes to Tamaki Dr Path – Section 4
• The Crosstown Light Rail Option
• An Onewa Interchange
• Weekly Roundup – 6-Aug-21
• Towards a Compact City, with Glorious Trees
• Northern Pathway ‘rethink’ on the cards
• Cullen on Climate and Light Rail
• AT’s heavy-handed enforcement… of the WRONG problem
• Weekly Roundup 30-07-21
• July-21 AT Board Meeting
• Northwest Bus Improvements Start
• What Auckland can teach the world about post-covid ridership
• Puhinui Reopens
• Weekly Roundup – 23-July-21
• Safety on Ash St & Rata St – but not for bikes
• Is there a case for an overnight sleeper train between Auckland and Wellington?
• Green Tracking of Light Rail in Auckland
• Council Slams AT but the Excuses Keep Coming
• Weekly Roundup – 16-July-21
• Artistic licence: framing the future
• Urbanism for women: what is, and what could be
• Innovating Streets, inviting perspectives
• The Plan for Buses in the City Centre
• Weekly Roundup – 09-July-21
• A proposal of preposterous audacity
• Queen St – Why is this so hard
• Long distance passenger rail
• Meaningless Light Rail Engagement
• Weekly Roundup 2-July-21
• Improving the Regional Land Transport Plan
• Papakāinga and the future of housing on Whenua Māori
• Auckland Council is planning for Unaffordability
• Urban Playground: the child-friendly city
• Weekly Roundup 25-June-21
• Setting of Speed Limits 2021
• We should add Rapid Transit to the Northern Pathway
• Don’t stop at the kerb: why Tactical Urbanism should pull infrastructure apart
• Mode Shift and Meaningful Climate Action: A Case Study
• Weekly Roundup – 18-June-21
• Still Alone Together: post-lockdown loneliness in Aotearoa and its implications for urban design
• An Active Minister for Active Modes
• Climate Commission’s Advice and the Clean Car Programme
• Auckland Rapid Transit Plan Guidance for Light Rail
• Weekly Roundup – 11-June-21
• DeafScape
• New Zealand’s Input to the UN on Safety
• The NZ Upgrade Blowout
• Weekly Roundup – 4-June-21
• Learning From Europe’s New Urban Politics
• The rise of the urban light truck: what to do about it?
• Low traffic life, the Amsterdam way
• Establishing a Carbon Neutral Government Programme
• Weekly Roundup – 28-May-21
• Liberate the Lane Rally on Sunday
• Using Streets Differently (Sometimes)
• DIY Safety
• Is Driving the new smoking?
• Weekly Roundup – 21-May-21
• Our Response to the Inquiry into congestion pricing in Auckland
• The Challenges of Working in the Road Corridor
• A shuttle for the Onehunga Branch Line?
• Ministry of Transport’s views on reducing emissions
• Weekly Roundup – 14-May-21
• Pop-Up Radwege (Cycleways)
• Fully realising the benefits of CRL
• Low-traffic neighbourhoods: which way for Arthur-Grey?
• Making a Fair Light Rail/Metro Comparison
• Weekly Roundup – 07-May-20
• What’s the plan for bikes and scooters on Queen St?
• The Auckland Harbour Bridge clip-ons, planning disaster… or best practice?
• AT’s latest PT and Bike Numbers
• The fight for Queen St
• Weekly Roundup – 30-Apr-21
• NZ Upgrade Programme review a blessing in disguise
• Apr-21 AT Board Meeting
• The RLTP’s core flaw: “holding VKT steady”
• Weekly Roundup – 23-Apr-21
• Guest Post: A interim option for an Auckland Harbour Bridge footpath and cycleway?
• Transmission Gully PPP Review
• Queen St makeover
• Improving Te Huia
• Weekly Roundup – 16-Apr-21
• Guest Post: Why bike lanes need to be designed for women
• What if Landlords Built Hot New Things?
• Will Free Public Transport help achieve our goals?
• The Downtown Carpark – AT Created a Debacle
• Weekly Roundup – 09-Apr-21
• Taking rail to the North Shore
• Guest Post: School Strike 4 Climate Demands For Auckland Council
• Chief Post Office Reopens as Britomart Entrance
• Light Rail Next Steps
• Auckland Transport to actually build cycleways
• Redeveloping the Downtown Carpark
• The Feedback Loop
• Light Rail Trade-offs
• Weekly Roundup – 26-Mar-21
• A Greater Gt North Rd
• The Housing Donut
• Where to next for Skypath?
• The Climate Change Commission’s draft advice
• The Long Term Plan 2021
• Weekly Roundup – 19-Mar-21
• Better Renting through New Housing Models
• Swanson Rd Safety
• Speeding Buses
• What’s wrong with ATAP
• Weekly Roundup – 12-Mar-20
• The PT Slump
• There’s Gold in Them There Roads
• We need better Trucks
• So we’re back to Unhealthy Streets, then?
• Weekly Roundup – 5-Mar-20
• Manurewa (Area 2) Safety Improvements Project
• The NPS and the upzoning of the city
• ATAP cannot be a 2018 plan for a 2021 world
• The Harbour Bridge is not falling down
• Weekly Roundup 26-Feb-21
• Enforce and extend the bus/transit lanes
• Feb-21 AT Board Meeting
• Bikes and Advertising
• New Drury Stations planned for auto-dependency
• Weekly Roundup – 19-Feb-21
• Wellesley St bus lanes proposal
• NIMBY Bingo!
• How big is our Housing Shortfall?
• HOP SHOP FLOP
• Weekly Roundup – 12-Feb-21
• Double is Nothing
• Cut and cover spaghetti junction?
• A Climate-Ready RLTP (no litigation required)
• Weekly Roundup – 05-Feb-21
• Getting Sign Off
• Changing Queen St in the news again
• Climate Commission’s advice on getting to zero emissions
• Weekly Roundup – 29-Jan-21
• AT comes right on Devonport
• The State of the Nation’s Houses
• Upgrading New North Rd and Symonds Street
• After six years, will 2021 finally see real progress for light rail?
• Weekly Roundup – 22-Jan-21
• PT Changes and AT bringing forward Electric Buses
• Henderson Cycle Network Consultation
• Auckland’s PT fare changes for 2021
• We won’t have ‘good PT’ if we don’t enforce bus lanes
• Weekly Roundup – 15-Jan-21
• Of Trees and Housing
• Recent Road Safety Discussions
• The Penlink Question – two or four?
• 2021 – The Year Ahead
• 2020 – A Year in Review
• Tourist cycling success, now do it in the cities
• Te Komititanga and views from the past
• Time to rethink Mill Rd
• Weekly Roundup – 18-Dec-20
• Briefings to the new Transport Minister Part 2
• Briefings to the new Transport Minister
• Highway Cost Blowouts
• Does Auckland intensification mean Soviet tower block apartments?
• Weekly Roundup – 11-Dec-20
• Dec-20 AT Board Meeting
• Waka Kotahi’s new ‘National Parking Management Guidance’
• AT, it’s your responsibility to make roads safe
• Supporting Sprawl in the Northwest
• Weekly Roundup – 04-Dec-20
• Light Rail process rebuke
• Guest Post: Michael Wood, Minister of Transport
• The Congestion Question Report
• The 2020 Consultation Season
• Weekly Roundup – 27-Nov-20
• A better Mission Bay for everyone (is now possible)
• Frustrating Missed Opportunities
• A waterfront open to people
• The Latest Harbour Crossing Options
• Weekly Roundup – 20-Nov-20
• Masks on PT from today
• AT need to up their consultation game
• What the model says about decarbonising transport
• Household Emissions in NZ (part 2 – transport)
• Weekly Roundup – 13-Nov-20
• Bringing forward the RTN
• Forming Policy on Low Traffic Neighbourhoods
• Building Consent Surge
• Light rail and light metro, why not both?
• Weekly Roundup – 06-Nov-20
• Taking the sprawl out of our transport plans
• A new Transport Minister
• NZTA Confirm Rail Harbour Crossing Needed First
• Latest city and employment numbers
• Weekly Roundup – 30-Oct-20
• The Drury Problem
• Are we doing enough?
• Oct-20 AT Board Meeting
• Weekly Roundup – 23-Oct-20
• East St Cycle surprise
• Narrow Lanes are a good thing
• The Auckland Freight Plan
• What we need the new government to deliver over the next 3 years
• Weekly Roundup – 16-Oct-20
• Auckland Election Transport Policy Roundup
• Why we need additional networks
• AT’s St Heliers shambles
• Household Emissions in NZ (part 1 – housing)
• Flashback Saturday: Commuter rail or rapid transit?
• Weekly Roundup – 09-Oct-20
• School Traffic
• What to do about Public Transport in Devonport
• How much we’re really doing for walking and cycling
• An Upper Harbour Ferry Line?
• Flashback Saturday: The Rail Development Plan
• Weekly Roundup – 02-Oct-20
• Who’s afraid of the big bad body corp?
• Greens Transport Policy for 2020
• Northwest Bus improvements detailed
• Rail Harbour Crossing Route Options
• Flashback Saturday: Improving the Northern Busway
• Weekly Roundup – 25-Sep-20
• Waihorotiu / Queen St Valley pilot coming
• The Harbour Bridge Response
• Upcoming PT changes
• Harbour Bridge Damage implications
• Flashback Saturday: The REAL Cost of Cars
• Weekly Roundup – 18-Sep-20
• Rail Disruption – Inner Southern Line next
• Airport to Botany and the problem of Flat Bush
• Public Transport use during Lockdown Two
• EVs in the bus lanes – not this again
• Flashback Sunday: Draft 2009 Auckland Transport Plan
• Weekly Roundup – 11-Sep-20
• Mind That Child
• Truckers: Fix the roads
• The Waterview Path: Resilient Design in the context of Covid-19 Lockdown
• The missing COVID transformation
• Weekly Roundup – 04-Sep-20
• The Light Rail Document Dump
• Innovating Streets Round 2 Outcomes
• Death, Taxes …… and highways
• Is transport modelling junk science?
• Weekly Roundup – 28-Aug-20
• Buying the Light Metro IP
• The initial case for faster trains between Auckland and Hamilton
• Lockdown extension and Mask Requirements on PT