High quality document sets out Manukau’s future On Friday Panuku Development Auckland released the Manukau Framework Plan that outlines Manukau’s potential for the next twenty-five years. You can read … Continue reading #ourmanukau Framework Plan: How Good Is It? Part 21 of the #TransformManukau Series
Good news for Auckland An email came through last night updating on the latest with appeals against the Unitary Plan. I keep tabs on these emails so I know … Continue reading Auckland 2040 Withdraw Unitary Plan Appeals
A recap on Tuesday’s committee From Auckland Council: Environment and Community Committee approves forward work programme Auckland Council’s Environment and Community Committee met today with business including the approval … Continue reading Environment and Community Committee Digests – March 2017
If we were to get a new stadium….. The last few days has been a rather odd mix of stadiums, Watercare saying ‘save water’ as the Ardmore Treatment Plant … Continue reading Stadiums, Watercare and Housing Do Not Mix
Building a new city? Where to house them allWhere will they workWhere is the recreationHow will they move about#urbangeography https://t.co/kI49zQ8Qki — Talking Auckland (@TalkingAuckland) February 28, 2017 60,000 homes, … Continue reading 200,000 New Residents. Where to House Them and Employment in South Auckland?
Building motorways never fix congestion Auckland is about to endure a very expensive lesson (in the sum of $2 billion) on why building motorways is never the answer to … Continue reading Waterview Tunnels Already Fail Before Opening
Business Case exists – in draft form Resident transport advocate (and researcher) Harriet Gale recently filed an Official Information Act (OIA) on where things were progressing with building the … Continue reading The Third (Rail) Main Inches Closer
Transport for Future Urban Growth plan diverts trucks I have blogged in the past that the Transport for Future Urban Growth (TFUG) had a lot to be desired from … Continue reading Auckland Transport’s Flight of Fancy: Send 55 Tonne Trucks past a School and down Residential Roads
Reduction in actual services I had managed to get some updates on the new Southern and Eastern Line timetables after reporting in what is a reduction in services for … Continue reading New Southern Line Timetable Not Flash Either (Better than the Western though)
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?
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