Category: Transport Planning

Looking at Transport Planning and Design

#Budget2016 – What I Wont Come To Expect

Mediocrity prevails Today is Budget Day for the Government and I have come to not expect a lot if any thing from this Government that will propel this nation forward … Continue reading #Budget2016 – What I Wont Come To Expect

Want Goods moved efficiently? Try rail and boat From Transport Spokesperson for the Greens Party – Julie Ann Genter: Greens launch Safer, Cleaner Freight policy to get trucks off … Continue reading Greens Commit to Rail and Shipping with Freight

Empowering communities, people and business From Strong Towns: ENGINEERS SHOULD NOT DESIGN STREETS MAY 23, 2016 BY CHARLES MAROHN Last Friday I was participating in the 5th Annual Mayor’s Bike … Continue reading Streets versed Roads: Why Engineers Should Not Design Them But People Should

Ministers incapable so we need new ones It is time for this Government to go. Sadly for that to happen we need an Opposition ready to go and we … Continue reading Time for New 21st Century Housing and Transport Ministers #NZPols

May 19, 2016 ·

Auckland Transport admits fault so they decide to build it any way? From Auckland Transport: Progress for eastern transport improvements 19/05/2016 02:58 p.m. Work will begin soon on the … Continue reading Auckland Transport Concedes Reeves Road Flyover Solves Nothing – Then Wants it Built Anyway!

Improving Housing in Manukau When improving an existing residential area such as the residential area of Manukau (south of the Manukau City Centre) and Rata Vines the imperative to … Continue reading #TransformManukau – Housing. Part 12 of the Manukau City Centre – The Transform Series

May 18, 2016 ·

Opportunities for a “Main Street” With Davies Avenue as the premier street and Manukau Station Road as the main east-west mass transit corridor the Transform Manukau Series swings back … Continue reading #TransformManukau – Ronwood Avenue. Part 11 of the Manukau City Centre – The Transform Series

May 17, 2016 ·

Southern main corridor needs humanising With Davies Avenue covered (see: #TransformManukau – The Davies Avenue Axis. Part 9 of the Manukau City Centre – The Transform Series) as a premier boulevard … Continue reading #TransformManukau – Manukau Station Road. Part 10 of the Manukau City Centre – The Transform Series

May 13, 2016 ·

Annual Plan passed by Governing Body From Auckland Council: Auckland Council agrees 2016/2017 budget Auckland Council today agreed its 2016/2017 Annual Budget, agreeing to an overall general rates increase … Continue reading Annual Plan 2016-2017 Ratified. Priority Given To Public Transport Over Roads #AKLPols

Ummm lulwut? I struggle to take anyone seriously who can not tell the difference between the official Auckland Transport Alignment Program (ATAP) (see: Transport Minister and Auckland Mayor Present Transport … Continue reading Crone Can’t Distinguish Between the ATAP and NZCID Report on Planning