Action Packed and a few Budget Blow Outs Council have released the agendas to both the Governing Body and Budget Committee for this Thursday. You can read the … Continue reading Governing Body and Budget Committee Agenda’s Out
Category: Planning
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Labour on Housing
So National or Labour on Housing And the battle for the housing affordability answer is very much under way with Labour and their Kiwi Build, and National with … Continue reading Labour on Housing
Liveability in a Growing City – A MUST
Focus on Quality As Auckland continues to evolve and intensify the City will be met with new challenges; the biggest being livability. This editorial from the Vancouver Sun … Continue reading Liveability in a Growing City – A MUST
Light Rail and Urban Renewal
Can it work? The Ultimate Answer? Yes it can. The catch? Need to think outside the square if this is going to work. Recommendation: Do not attempt to even … Continue reading Light Rail and Urban Renewal
Resilience in our Transport Network
The Need for a Resilient Network
When you see this (and similar Tweets) all to often you wonder how resilient is our entire transport network is:
There is an article in the Herald about accident that happened last night which is still having effects NOW can be seen here: Fatal crash in Auckland closes major route to airport
The accident happened on I believe the from north to west link of the State Highway One/Twenty interchange that is known for speeding traffic and useless merging
Having a major route to the airport closed is not particular good. Then again neither is accidents anywhere on the motorway network nor blockages on the rail network and the trains not being able to “run around.” So the question is how do we get the transport network to be more resilient for both freight and people.
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I shall answer the question myself this weekend.
Have a good Friday everyone
AT Board March Agenda – And Prepare for June
Lots of stuff happening Auckland Transport have released their Board Meeting Papers for this month which you can see below. For full details and agenda items please go here. … Continue reading AT Board March Agenda – And Prepare for June
Elections 2014 – Yet Another Labour Narrative
Get it right if you are going to pull something like this Yesterday I wrote a post on why Labour’s poll rating were tanking in my eyes and observations. … Continue reading Elections 2014 – Yet Another Labour Narrative
Some Call it Dissent?
No – I would call it healthy debate! Yesterday concluded the annual Planning Institute of Australia’s congress in Sydney. The PIA website can be found here while a related … Continue reading Some Call it Dissent?
Major Transport Announcement – April 1
It is after 12pm so not an April Fools Joke
Saw this which lit Twitter up yesterday:
The announcement is after 12 so I highly doubt it is something to “yank our chain”
So we await for April
As for the EMU’s – the electric trains, they start running on the Onehunga Line on April 28th
Planning Tweet of the Day
From our Australian Cousins
This from the Planning Institute of Australia who are holding a very large planning conference in Sydney right now:
So true and something Auckland would like to note.
You can keep tabs on the PIA Congress either through http://www.piacongress.com.au/ or via Twitter @pia_planning
