August 2025 - Greater Auckland
We provide evidence based debate on urban form, transport, housing, design, and public space. Our aim is to foster a greater Auckland for all.| Greater Auckland
We provide evidence based debate on urban form, transport, housing, design, and public space. Our aim is to foster a greater Auckland for all.| Greater Auckland
This is a guest post by Malcolm McCracken. It previously appeared on his blog Better Things Are Possible and is shared by kind permission. Local government elections in New Zealand face persistent challenges with low voter turnout and a shortage of candidates. … The post Improving Local Government Representation in New Zealand appeared first on Greater Auckland.| Greater Auckland
The government have seemed a bit more desperate to be seen to be doing things lately, and yesterday they got an opportunity with a sod-turning event to mark the start of removing the last seven level crossings on the southern and eastern lines north of Papakura.… The post Level Crossing Removal Starts appeared first on Greater Auckland.| Greater Auckland
Another Friday closer to actual spring, and here’s another roundup of insights from the world of urbanism. As always, feel free to share your links to stories on transport, cities, and what makes them great. Our header image this week shows the cycleway ramp for Sydney Harbour Bridge, currently under construction.… The post Weekly Roundup 22-August-2025 appeared first on Greater Auckland.| Greater Auckland
Almost exactly three years ago, Auckland Council notified “Plan Change 78” (PC78) in response to government direction to allow apartments near major centres/transit stations and to allow townhouses throughout the suburbs. Since then, Council has fought that government direction tooth and nail, while also facing extreme weather events like the infamous Auckland Anniversary floods in 2023.… The post Is Auckland Council planning to raze the inner suburbs? appeared first on Greater Auckland.| Greater Auckland
The media’s tendency to seize on anything bike-related and turn it into a scandal took a new turn this week, after it was revealed David Seymour, in his role as Minister for Regulation, had asked for advice about removing the mandatory helmet requirements for people on bicycles.… The post Just asking questions about bike helmets appeared first on Greater Auckland.| Greater Auckland
Patrick Reynolds is deputy chair of the City Centre Advisory Panel and is running for council in the Waitematā & Gulf ward in this years local elections. As the City Rail Link (CRL) nears completion amid talk of city deals and rates caps, I thought it worth looking at what that project can tell us about the nation-city relationship.… The post The City Rail Link is a bargain… appeared first on Greater Auckland.| Greater Auckland
Whaddya know, it’s Friday again! And here’s our regular roundup of recent news about cities, transport and making Auckland a little bit greater. This week’s header image shows an idea for High St, featuring bollards at the Shortland St entrance. See related item below.… The post Weekly Roundup 15-August-2025 appeared first on Greater Auckland.| Greater Auckland
Last week Auckland Transport released their new rapid transit map for after the City Rail Link opens sometime next year. The implication that the rapid transit network (RTN) should be fast is right there in the name, but for the avoidance of doubt, the Auckland Rapid Transit Pathway has a high-level description of the RTN of: Rapid transit is fast, frequent, and reliable public transport.… The post How rapid is our Rapid Transit appeared first on Greater Auckland.| Greater Auckland
This is a guest post by Darren Davis. It originally appeared on his excellent blog, Adventures in Transitland, which we encourage you to check out. It is sha| Greater Auckland
Month: July 2025| Greater Auckland
Another week almost down and to go with it, another weekly roundup for your Friday morning delectation. This Week in Greater Auckland On Monday Matt looked at the government’s obsession with a Northern Expressway. On Tuesday Matt reviewed AT’s first official map of the CRL.… The post Weekly Roundup 8-August-2025 appeared first on Greater Auckland.| Greater Auckland
This is a guest post by Brendon Harre. It’s the on Substack!| Greater Auckland
Yesterday I went to the launch of the Committee for Auckland’s third The State of The City launch. It’s great they are doing this work, and the event was very interesting. You can read| Greater Auckland
Month: April 2025| Greater Auckland
This is a guest post by Brendon Harre. It’s the Ngāi Tahu Atlas With its swamps, rivers and estuary, modern day Christchurch was back then an area primarily used for food gathering. The major Māori settlements were to the north and … Continued| Greater Auckland
This is a Guest Post by Dr Chris Teo–Sherrell from Living Streets Aotearoa You’re driving along on your way to work or an appointment and all of a sudden there’s a truck blocking the road. It’s not clear what’s happening. … Continued| Greater Auckland
Patrick Reynolds is deputy chair of the city centre advisory panel, a previous director of NZTA, and is running to be Councillor for the Waitematā and Gulf ward in October. This ran in the Herald 1 July 2025 What is … Continued| Greater Auckland
As the City Rail Link works start to wrap up over the next year, focus is starting to shift to where next for improvement in the city centre and one of the areas to be focused on is the Downtown … Continued| Greater Auckland
A couple of months ago, NZTA reversed its plans to install a median wire barrier on SH16 for stage 1 of the section 20.” And yet as we’ve seen, the former Minister of Transport, Simeon Brown, seemingly gave highly specific … Continued| Greater Auckland
Month: March 2025| Greater Auckland
Yesterday the Government launched their| Greater Auckland
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We are past the shortest day of the year, and hope everyone’s Matariki celebrations were good. To cap off the last full week of June, here’s some interesting news! This Week in Greater Auckland Saturday NZ, so we have to … Continued| Greater Auckland
The government have announced more details about their plans to require even more density around some train stations to make the most of the City Rail Link. on Substack!| Greater Auckland
This is a guest post by Brendon Harre. It’s the on Substack!| Greater Auckland
Month: June 2025| Greater Auckland
Today the AT board meets again, and I’ve taken a look through the papers to find the most interesting items. For those wanting to attend or watch online: Auckland Transport, 20 Viaduct Harbour Avenue, Auckland (Meeting Room 1.04) Microsoft Teams … Continued| Greater Auckland
Last week Transport Minister Chris Bishop on Substack!| Greater Auckland
Mānawatia a Matariki! Here’s a Māori new year bonus for y’all, enjoy:| Greater Auckland
The government requiring the council to zone for more housing in Auckland is dead, long live the government requiring the council to zone for more housing in Auckland. One of the governments key housing polices when was to make optional … Continued| Greater Auckland
This is a guest post by Darren Davis. It originally appeared on his excellent blog,| Greater Auckland
We provide evidence based debate on urban form, transport, housing, design, and public space. Our aim is to foster a greater Auckland for all.| Greater Auckland
Last year Auckland Transport consulted on safety along| Greater Auckland
Auckland’s streets are paved with gold. Over the coming decade, several billion dollars will be earmarked for regular road renewals, rolling out 300km or so of fresh surface per year. You can’t begrudge this expenditure – nobody loves a pot hole, … Continued| Greater Auckland
Month: August 2022| Greater Auckland
Auckland Transport recently cancelled Connected Communities (aka ConCom), a flagship programme launched in 2018 that was intended to deliver walking, cycling, public transport and safety improvements along 12 key corridors in the region. These weren’t going to come cheaply, with … Continued| Greater Auckland
Another of the interesting items at the Auckland Transport board meeting yesterday was about the plans for removing the remaining four road level crossings on the Southern Line in Takanini at Spartan Rd, Manuroa Rd, Taka St and Walters Rd. The board were asked to approve a business case for route protection of their proposed solution for dealing with the crossings.| Greater Auckland
Go to Instagram. Search posts tagged with Auckland. You’ll be flooded with: photos of the Skytower photos taken from the top of Mt Eden photos of the Skytower taken from the top of Mt Eden. So it shouldn’t be surprising … Continued| Greater Auckland
This is a guest post from Geoff Cooper, Director of Economics at PwC, on work he’s done looking at viewshafts. The Journal of New Zealand Economic Papers recently published ‘City With A Billion Dollar View’ by Geoff Cooper (Princeton University, … Continued| Greater Auckland
Month: February 2025| Greater Auckland
This is a guest post by Darren Davis. on Substack!| Greater Auckland
An early roundup this week, on account of the long weekend ahead. Watch out for the wind out there! This week in Greater Auckland On Monday we shared Annabel Streets, the appropriately named author of a new book,| Greater Auckland
This is a bit of a progress update for| Greater Auckland
This is a guest post by Lewis Creed, managing editor of the University of Auckland student publication Craccum, which is currently running a campaign for a safer Symonds Street in the wake of a horrific recent crash. The post has … Continued| Greater Auckland
This is a letter we will be sending to Auckland Transport to ask they return to the original consulted and endorsed plans on the join our circle of supporters here, or support us| Greater Auckland
Another Friday, another roundup. Autumn is starting to set in, certainly getting darker earlier but we hope you enjoy some of the stories we found interesting this week. This week in Greater Auckland On Tuesday we ran a guest post … Continued| Greater Auckland
Auckland’s ongoing rail pain will intensify again from this weekend as join our circle of supporters here, or support us| Greater Auckland
A few weeks ago, I wrote a post extensively on Substack! Cross Street Let’s start on Cross Street, where Auckland Transport has decided to preserve on-street carparking, which means choosing not to expand the pedestrian zone. They’re also removing from … Continued| Greater Auckland
This is a guest post by Darren Davis. It originally appeared on his excellent blog, KiwiRail website, repeated in the Rail Network Investment Programme 2024-2027 and often such documents are written in a coded way where you need to read between the lines. And look … Continued| Greater Auckland
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 … Continued| Greater Auckland
This post by Nicolas Reid was| Greater Auckland
When the City Rail Link opens (circa 2026), all signs point to it immediately being a huge success.| Greater Auckland
Auckland Council has released a very encouraging, 80 page document: the Transport Emissions Reduction Pathway (TERP). The goal of TERP is to reduce emissions from transport by 64% compared to 2019 levels. 2. The transformation required In all, there are … Continued| Greater Auckland
Yesterday we covered a big part of a recent speech by Minister of Housing and Transport Chris Bishop. One aspect we didn’t cover was about the City Rail Link and his announcement of $200 million towards the removal of level crossings.| Greater Auckland
On Friday, Chris Bishop, the Minister of Housing, Transport, Infrastructure and RMA Reform, gave| Greater Auckland
This is a guest post by Greater Auckland reader MrPlod On Sunday, September 3, 1967, just 55 days after New Zealand converted to Decimal Currency, There are a number in here building other nations’ vehicles but importantly the top three … Continued| Greater Auckland
*This is a guest post by regular reader, Mr Plod, who may or may not have worked for Fonterra in Hamilton. Hamilton now has a reason to be. Wellington has suffered hugely at the hands of the Kaikoura earthquake. An … Continued| Greater Auckland
How does an up to 70 percent hike in public transport fares sound, or maybe a lower increase but a big cut to services? That could be the reality of a new policy from Waka Kotahi outlined in a| Greater Auckland
Greater Auckland is an independent, volunteer-run organisation for advocacy and analysis of urban issues. We’re all about improving the quality of our great city – how we get around, where we live, the ways we connect with each other. We’re … Continued| Greater Auckland
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 … Continued| Greater Auckland
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Auckland Transport has long been a easy punching bag for the public, politicians and media, sometimes deservedly so, other times not. That could all be about to change following an announcement yesterday by the Browns – Wayne and Simeon. Greater … Continued| Greater Auckland
After around ten years of delays and frustration, Auckland Transport are finally going| Greater Auckland
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 … Continued| Greater Auckland
In today’s guest post, former Auckland Councillor Pippa Coom highlights the value of berms in Auckland – and encourages everyone to limelight during “bermgate” in 2013 when berm planting guidelines to recognise the placemaking and amenity value of the berm, … Continued| Greater Auckland
Greater Auckland is brought to you by a largely volunteer crew and made possible by generous donations from our readers and fans. If you’d like to support our work, you can| Greater Auckland
This is a guest post from longtime supporter Mr Plod, whose previous contributions include a proposal that| Greater Auckland
It’s another Friday and we’re inching closer to the end of the year. Here’s some of the stories that have caught our attention this week. This post, like all our work, is brought to you by a largely volunteer crew … Continued| Greater Auckland
With Friday’s editorial, which included (among other comment) this: The way it is shaping up, the single mayor and council will be a puppet show, purely for democratic appearances, while the real decisions are made by people the public has … Continued| Greater Auckland
This guest post by Tim Adriaansen, an advocate for accessibility and sustainable transport,| Greater Auckland
A better world isn’t just possible, it’s desirable. And that’s how we should frame a lot of our conversations around making a greater Auckland. As an example take urban climate action. A climate friendly Auckland: Is free from congestion Enables … Continued| Greater Auckland
This post was As I wrote about here, the City Rail Link will be a literal game changer for public transport in the city buy making train trips faster and more frequent, by boosting capacity and by running trains from one … Continued| Greater Auckland
Kiwirail and Auckland Transport have revealed that the rail network will be closed or partially closed for nearly 149 days between Christmas this year and the end of January 2026, almost 38% of the time, as part of what they’re calling the final push to get the rail network ready for the City Rail Link. That’s made up of 96 days of full closure and 53 days of partial closure.| Greater Auckland
This is a guest post by Anna Michels. Anna is an Urban Designer at Auckland Council assessed existing properties with a special character overlay on six criteria, and each property needed to score a 5 or 6 to be considered … Continued| Greater Auckland
One thing that’s not been reported much yet about the Te Honohono ki Tai Road” near Warkworth, which is nothing special but includes a cycleway and (shock horror) footpaths, now seems like it would need to be funded through an … Continued| Greater Auckland
