Apart from work (maybe) why shouldnt everything else be close to home In Auckland and even my Cities Skylines cities there is a tendency to struggle with building complete … Continue reading The Case for Complete LOCAL Neighbourhoods (Auckland Also Struggles at Planning for our Metropolitan Centres)
TRANSIT – build it not slash it Sydney is very much like Auckland in my opinion as an Urban Geographer. Both Cities are going rapid expansion and both Cities … Continue reading Parramatta’s Continued Rise as Sydney’s Second City Centre. Transit Also the Key for Less Well Off Areas. Lessons For Manukau and Auckland
Yep Roundabouts Earlier this month I had post on Why I Use #CitiesSkylines in my Urban Geography Posts? In essence: So why use it? Pictures are worth a thousand words … Continue reading Why I Use #CitiesSkylines in my Urban Geography Posts? – Today I Get Some Engineering Lessons – ROUNDABOUTS
How do we recover the network after a failure or incident After the derailment of a passenger train inside the Britomart Tunnel and Station a few weeks ago I … Continue reading Auckland Rail Recovery Procedures – How The Network is Recovered in the Event of an Incident
Need to do better A new facility opened in Wiri today that will process 3 million used tyres a year into other products. New Zealand produces five million waste … Continue reading New Waste Tyre Facility Opens in Wiri – Mayor Wants Better Stewardship of Such Waste
Indictment on poor practice Yesterday a rather scathing independent report came out commissioned by the Board of Auckland Transport in safety practices and why death and injury rates were … Continue reading Omnishambles: Independent Report into Auckland Transport Slams Organisation for Dysfunction in Proactive Road Safety Planning and Implementation
What the Minister said Below is the released transcript from Housing and Urban Development Minister Phil Twyford to the recent Urbanism Conference held in Wellington on Monday and Tuesday. … Continue reading Housing and Urban Development Minister Phil Twyford’s Speech to the Recent Urbanism Conference. #letsdothis
Urban Geography can teach us a lot on how to work with Southern Auckland Manukau Ward Councillor Efeso Collins penned a piece to The Spinoff on the equity issues Southern Auckland … Continue reading From The Spinoff: Taxing the poor, to transport the rich
Looking at the Light Rail Lines Last month I wrote a piece on how we are looking at the Northern Airport Line (City Centre to Airport via Dominion Road) … Continue reading Working Light Rail: Some Brainstorming with Starting the North Western LRT Line First
Efficiency of services There seems to be an issue with stage one of Regional Rapid Rail between Auckland, Hamilton and Tauranga and what its purpose is. When Greater Auckland … Continue reading Why Regional Rapid Rail Should NOT Terminate at Papakura
Talking Southern Auckland 