Category: Hot Discussion

An issue causing hot discussion either here in the blog or in the wider community

How to Handle Auckland’s Growth: Do We Divide Up or Go All In?

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?

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 20, 2017 ·

Alteration to give more frequencies on Western Line Transport Blog put up a double informative post covering the City Rail Link tender announcement as well as run patterns once … Continue reading Auckland Transport Post City Rail Link Run Pattern to be Desired

January 19, 2017 ·

What I would like The Sea-path story in Stuff today reminded me that submissions for the 2018-2021 National Land Transport Fund (NLTF) will not be too far off. That … Continue reading National Land Transport Fund 2018-2021 Wishlist for Auckland

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

Poor project management Updated with response from Auckland Transport It seems again the Manukau Bus Station (the key lynch-pin to the South Auckland Bus Network) has been delayed … Continue reading Auckland Transport’s Manukau Bus Station Now Delayed Until 2018. UPDATED

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)

Still stuck with crap off peak frequencies In March a new rail timetable will be released and brought into operation by Auckland Transport for all four lines. With a … Continue reading Auckland Transport Refuse in Improve Rail Frequencies

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

January 2, 2017 ·

2017 – what lies ahead January 1 marks the anniversary of Talking Southern Auckland. 2017 marked the fifth anniversary of the blog and when WordPress sent the notification of … Continue reading 2017 Marks 5th Anniversary of Talking Southern Auckland