9:30 Town Hall This morning the Governing Body of Auckland Council will meet at Town Hall. The two main agenda items? Port of Auckland (under Extraordinary Business) and the Mayor … Continue reading Governing Body to Meet Today; Ports and Budget On The Table
An Equitable City is One That Allows Growth in All Areas A situation has arisen in Melbourne. From The Age The selfishness that’s tearing Melbourne apart Date April 29, 2015 – … Continue reading Melbourne Selfishness is Same as Auckland
Do we need to gold plate everything As I work through the parklets for Manukau City Centre I was having a look through this yesterday: Home / Parks Hub / Informal … Continue reading KISS: Keeping It Simple Stupid – With Parks
Red-light Runners and Police Excuse systematic of our Transport Planning Failures Auckland Council and Auckland Transport; we have a serious problem we need to have a wee chat about. … Continue reading Millwater: We Are Not Achieving The World’s Most Liveable (nor equitable) City
Running close to capacity already on the Southern Line This morning the Electric Trains in both three and six car set configurations joined their soon to be retired diesel counterparts … Continue reading Electric Train 6 Car Sets “Comfortable”
Marking First Anniversary This week marks when the first Electric passenger train began revenue service (taking passengers) on the Onehunga Line. Since then the Electrics or EMU’s for short (Electric … Continue reading One Year of Electric Trains
Not the Corridor that bothers me, it is what they want in terms of Regional Development The 4-lane de-facto urban motorway that is fast becoming the moniker for the Redoubt … Continue reading Mill Road and Regional Development (We Are Not Achieving The World’s Most Liveable City)
4,500 possible homes + 1,000 more in Takanini/Papakura Area + more else where I was flicking through the monthly ‘Our Auckland’ magazine yesterday when I came across the following titbit … Continue reading Wesley College SHA Even Larger
Port continuing work against wishes of Auckland Council The Port of Auckland saga keeps on going. News out this morning shows the Chair of Port of Auckland giving a long … Continue reading Will Council Push THE BIG RED BUTTON and Go Thermonuclear
To be considered and later actioned – dependent on Council Governing Body Next week the Auckland Transport Board holds its monthly meeting. One of the larger considerations on the Agenda … Continue reading Regional Long Term Plan Consultation Considerations for Auckland Transport
Talking Southern Auckland 