Enjoy the Tūpuna Maunga car free From the Tūpuna Maunga Authority Safer spaces on the way for Auckland’s ancestral mountains Pedestrian-only areas at the tihi (summits) of five Tūpuna Maunga (ancestral mountains) … Continue reading More Auckland Volcanoes go Car Free
More housing Good news on the housing supply front. I was returning back from Manukau City Centre and noticed large earthworks as well as active diggers at the Manukau … Continue reading Manukau Special Housing Area (8 Pacific) Under-way
Productivity still missing 2% target About every November I usually will go checking up on Auckland’s productivity and see how it measures against Outcome 3 of the Auckland Plan … Continue reading Auckland Productivity Returns to Positive – Still Misses Target
Turning a former State Highway into a human people space Earlier in the Transform Manukau series I did comment and provide an alternative to Manukau Station Road (see: #TransformManukau … Continue reading Manukau Station Road Humanising Therapy #Part 19 of the #TransformManukau Series
Could Auckland take Wellington after a disaster The short answer is no or rather not easily. The continued news of Government or State buildings in the Government and … Continue reading UPDATED: Wellington Quake Damage Raises Auckland Capacity Issues
Plans are there, all subject to cash Just after the Local Government Elections there was a rather large spiel in one of the Papakura Facebook community pages about the … Continue reading Auckland Transport Reply on Great South Road, Takanini Issues. Bus Lanes Coming!
Business case to be developed for Botany to Airport In October I had commented on Campaign for Better Transport’s presentation to the Auckland Transport Board on how they believe … Continue reading Auckland Transport’s Formal Response to Light Rail to the Airport
Unsurprising results Thanks to Jeremy for putting together some graphics on how the mayoral voting split fell into place in the recent elections. As somewhat expected the South and … Continue reading South and West Elect The Mayor (Again). Also Voting Dynamics (Especially Southern Auckland)
Better use of land a good way to get on top of housing supply in Auckland Recently a presentation was given where four houses (especially large Housing New Zealand … Continue reading 18:4 Housing Solution. Is it a solution?
I lean to the former Transport Blog yesterday had a post on urban design owing to Auckland Council’s Design Champion recently saying that new apartments in Otahuhu looked ugly. … Continue reading Urban Design: Form and Function or Aesthetics? #CitiesSkylines Assists
Talking Southern Auckland 