Category: Community/Environment

And We Are Back: 2017 to be a Busy Year for Auckland

January 31, 2017 ·

What lies ahead Auckland Anniversary Weekend has been and gone and proved to be a fine Summer scorcher no matter where you were or what you were doing across … Continue reading And We Are Back: 2017 to be a Busy Year for Auckland

Reduction in actual services I had managed to get some updates on the new Southern and Eastern Line timetables after reporting in what is a reduction in services for … Continue reading New Southern Line Timetable Not Flash Either (Better than the Western though)

Divide up into smaller pieces By now you would have seen the doom and gloom Herald articles about the Isthmus’s sewer network spilling sewerage into the harbours on a … Continue reading How to Handle Auckland’s Growth: Do We Divide Up or Go All In?

January 24, 2017 ·

Tauranga could learn from Auckland example After Rodney Councillor Greg Sayers wrote a lot of tripe (you could say Alternative Facts) how Tauranga should be an example of how … Continue reading Tauranga Suburban Dystopia: Could Learn Urbanism from Auckland

How will you improve your community today? So you have attended a march over the weekend, Tweeted some reckons, post a selfie and a spiel on Facebook and converse … Continue reading So You Have Marched? Now What? UPDATE: Urbanism in Play

January 16, 2017 ·

Fares go up No improvements to services Poor and short distance travellers get whacked It seems Auckland Transport still has a lot to learn about equity when applying fares … Continue reading Auckland to Hike Public Transport Fares 5% and 14% Respectively. Still Equity Issues

Updated for Version 1.4.2 It took a couple of days but some 246 pages and around 24,500 words later the #TransformManukau Omnibus has been complied into a single PDF edition. … Continue reading UPDATED: The #TransformManukau Omnibus (Version 1.4.2)

Moving Manukau from a 9-5 economy to a full-time economy To support the wider Southern Auckland population lifting itself socio-economically its population need to be able to access high … Continue reading Walkable and Transit Orientated Environments – They Attract Jobs #Part 20 of the #TransformManukau Series

Government helping? Regular Auckland commentator Bryce came up with an idea that could boost our sagging housing supply while at the same time building communities as well. It stems … Continue reading An Idea for Auckland: Using Self Build to Help Build Homes AND Communities

Auckland’s time to shine But a lot of work to do Provinces benefit from Age of the City With serious concerns & question marks around the leadership of … Continue reading 2017 Marks the Start of The Age of the City