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From one-way to two
City engineers have turned our downtowns into places that are easy to get to but not worth arriving at. – Jeff Speck, Walkable City A few weeks back I prepared a cross section of the cbd that revealed...
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Redoubt Road-Mill Road project causing angst
A fairly significant proposed roading project, from Redoubt Road in Manukau down to Mill Road in Takanini, has pretty much slipped by unnoticed as its investigation continues – although some elements...
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What to do with Arterial Roads
I recently got back an OIA request from the Ministry of Transport and one of the documents in it was a report on Auckland’s arterial roads. The report is dated December 2012 and the intent was to...
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Lincoln Rd to be “upgraded”
Auckland Transport is proposing to widen Lincoln Rd – something that in my opinion is probably already Auckland’s most soul destroying street, particularly from a land use perspective. Every time I...
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Last chance for a say on Lincoln Rd
Back in November it was announced that Auckland Transport wanted to ‘upgrade’ Lincoln Rd. A road I travel on regularly and one that I consider the most soul destroying in all of Auckland. AT have had...
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Walking on Arterial Roads
Why is the CEO of Auckland Transport saying this? (comment was made to local board members). David Warburton of @AklTransport just told us that arterial roads are not walking environments. Aren’t most...
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Privatising Roads
The ACT party – or at least its biggest funder – was in the news last weekend for expressing some of his views for the party at their annual conference. Of note was this line “I’d privatise all the...
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Albany Highway upgrade to start later this year
Auckland Transport have announced that they will spend $58 million to widen a 4km section of Albany Highway starting in September. The road is an interesting one in that some parts look like a typical...
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Auckland Road Performance
Every month we report on what’s happening with public transport patronage however Auckland Transport also report on many other metrics too such as how roads are performing. In this post I’ll look at...
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Dynamic Road Lanes coming
It seems that Auckland Transport have found a use for the large medians they so often like to include in road projects, another lane. They announced on Friday that they would be trialling what they...
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