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Discussion of another harbour crossing has been in the news a lot recently as a result of Mayor Wayne Brown| Greater Auckland
Month: September 2025| Greater Auckland
Discussion of another harbour crossing has been in the news a lot recently as a result of Mayor Wayne Brown| Greater Auckland
Yesterday the The second option makes use of the Avondale to Southdown corridor all the way down to Onehunga. This would mean a four-track trench about 3km long, with at least 14 road crossings over it – and for light … Continued| Greater Auckland
Month: October 2025| 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 shared by kind permission. A Detailed Business Case for the electrification of the Golden Triangle’s rail network has been underway for a while but information recently shared by KiwiRail with Waikato’s Regional Land Transport Committee sheds some light on their emerging thinking on what this might look like.… The post Electrifying ...| Greater Auckland
We now have our first glimpse of the shape of the new council following the local body election on Saturday. The results emerge in three stages: “progress results” landed on Saturday afternoon, and “preliminary results” on Monday afternoon, with special votes (and thus the final outcomes) to come on Friday.… The post Auckland Council’s 2025 Elections: Initial Results appeared first on Greater Auckland.| Greater Auckland
It’s local government election eve – last chance to get your votes in before noon on Saturday 11 October! Voting is valuable. As Hayden Donnell puts it in his famously witty way, city is made of council. And outcomes can depend on a single vote.… The post Weekly Roundup 10-October-2025 appeared first on Greater Auckland.| 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. In 2023, I published the following post on the plans for the development of land that was formerly part of the Carrington UNITEC Campus.… The post Progress on the Carrington (UNITEC) housing development appeared first on Greater Auckland.| Greater Auckland
Connor Sharp is running for the Waitematā Local Board in this year’s election. On Saturday (pending any close-run races), we’ll learn who will govern our city for the next three years. While the mayoral race feels like a foregone conclusion – to the point there’s barely even any media coverage of it – who else will be sitting around the council table, and who will sit on the various local boards, will have a big impact on the city’s future.… The post What this local election me...| Greater Auckland
It’s the last Friday of the school holidays. As you get ready for a busier week for transport next week, take a look through some of the things that caught our attention recently. This Week in Greater Auckland On Wednesday Matt looked at the secrecy of mega-projects.… The post Weekly Roundup 03-October-2025 appeared first on Greater Auckland.| Greater Auckland
With energy policy and the cost of power in the headlines this week, here’s a timely guest post by regular reader, and freelance Business Analyst specialising in pricing and operations management, Stephen Reynolds. (Header image: Wikimedia, CC-BY-SA4.0) Many New Zealanders view exhausting our fossil fuel reserves as inevitable and enabling us to move on from the emissions they generate.… The post Time to get off the gas appeared first on Greater Auckland.| Greater Auckland
How is it that mega-projects costing billions get such little public involvement and scrutiny? That’s a question that Mayor Wayne Brown effectively hits on in| Greater Auckland
Welcome to another Friday. Who’s ready for Daylight Saving Time this weekend? And it’s almost October, aka Biketober, a great excuse to get out and enjoy the longer evenings. For now, enjoy our roundup of stories that caught our eye this week, on the subject of transport, cities, and connections.… The post Weekly Roundup 26-September-2025 appeared first on Greater Auckland.| Greater Auckland
Housing has been much in the headlines recently, with a few Auckland Councillors fighting tooth and nail to prevent more of it in their own neighbourhoods and instead push it out to other parts of the city. That approach failed yesterday, with a committee of council as a whole voting to accept a new Plan Change 120, to replace the existing Plan Change 78.… The post Plan Change debate: more housing was the winner on the day appeared first on Greater Auckland.| Greater Auckland
Big infrastructure projects are great if you only count the benefits and none of the costs. That seems to be the position of infrastructure lobby group Infrastructure NZ, based on| Greater Auckland
A few weeks ago, the government released the a| Greater Auckland
This post by Nicolas Reid was often in the news, with manufacturers of ropeway systems proposing them as a modern option for mass transit systems in New Zealand. However, like every the marketing hype from the reality. I recently took a trip … Continued| Greater Auckland
Update: The AT Board approved this project! See nice Is it better than nothing? Above all, this “cheaper” design is less safe for kids walking to school, people getting on and off buses, and people riding bikes – the very people … Continued| Greater Auckland
It’s been two months, but today the Auckland Transport board meet again. There’s a lot on the agenda so I can’t cover it all in this post but here are some of the highlights from| Greater Auckland
Back in late 2018 we first learnt about a programme to roll out improvements to bus priority, active modes, safety and town centre improvements to a number of key arterial corridors across the region and to help encourage mode shift. … Continued| Greater Auckland
Welcome to the last Friday of August, and our regular 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. This Week in Greater … Continued| 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| Greater Auckland
The government have seemed a bit more desperate to be seen to be doing things lately, and| 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 … Continued| 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
This is a guest post by Brendon Harre. It’s the on Substack!| 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
Yesterday the Government launched their| 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
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
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
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
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
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
