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Well that’s certainly one way to generate traffic to justify a hugely expensive expressway to Whangārei

#TransportNews: Auckland Transport have enabled a post-CRL timetable preview tool on the desktop version of the AT Journey Planner. This tool allows users to see how the CRL opening may change their journey. The tool is enabled under the refine button.

Weekend reading 😊

Time for another roundup of the-week-that-was! In today's edition: 🐔 RoNS reality comes home to roost 🥰 Meditations on Auckland's change for the better 🛤️ Two new stations on the Southern Line: what was promised vs what we got ⛽ Some thoughts on fuel prices www.greaterauckland.org.nz/2026/07/17/w...

Good (nerdy) point here about "gold-plating": it's not quite the damning insult some people think it is. From our perspective, the artwork in the CRL stations isn't just some optional icing on the cake: it makes the cake more enticing, confirms it's locally-sourced, and is something to be proud of.

The millions of dollars in costs to ratepayers cited here appear to only relate to the cost of new signage. But didn't Simeon Brown's dictatorial folly also require the removal of traffic calming in lots of local streets? Around here, that's been quietly ignored. thespinoff.co.nz/politics/17-...

Time for another roundup of the-week-that-was! In today's edition: 🐔 RoNS reality comes home to roost 🥰 Meditations on Auckland's change for the better 🛤️ Two new stations on the Southern Line: what was promised vs what we got ⛽ Some thoughts on fuel prices www.greaterauckland.org.nz/2026/07/17/w...

Far smarter, far more affordable, and far sooner built than tunnels: "a beautiful cable-stayed bridge, soaring above the stunning Waitematā, meeting every need, with artful design expressing our highest aspirations." Op-ed by @patrickreynolds.bsky.social: www.greaterauckland.org.nz/2026/07/16/b...

The power of investing in frequent public transport! 🚌 Auckland's Frequent Transit Network (FTN) bus routes run at least every 15 mins, 7am-7pm, 7 days/week 🗺️ The city now has 45 FTN routes, vs just seven a decade ago 😃 Five new FTN routes since June 2025 📈 Citywide ridership up 14% year-on-year

Far smarter, far more affordable, and far sooner built than tunnels: "a beautiful cable-stayed bridge, soaring above the stunning Waitematā, meeting every need, with artful design expressing our highest aspirations." Op-ed by @patrickreynolds.bsky.social: www.greaterauckland.org.nz/2026/07/16/b...

Who could have predicted this? National can’t afford its roads

Ahem. 😎

An exclusive interview with Len Brown, former mayor of Auckland and "godfather" of the City Rail Link. He chats with @patrickreynolds.bsky.social about how this transformative project came to be, and the power of advocacy to change your city for the better: www.greaterauckland.org.nz/2026/07/14/h...

An exclusive interview with Len Brown, former mayor of Auckland and "godfather" of the City Rail Link. He chats with @patrickreynolds.bsky.social about how this transformative project came to be, and the power of advocacy to change your city for the better: www.greaterauckland.org.nz/2026/07/14/h...

The government has finally acknowledged that their mega-road programme isn’t feasible (as we’ve been saying for quite some time), and have scaled it back. Matt Lowrie looks at the re-scoped pipeline, and asks if it's rescoped enough... and what comes next: www.greaterauckland.org.nz/2026/07/13/r...

Board games on Queens wharf this morning till 4 and why not pick up a bike and get your bike fixed at the same time😍😎🙏🌆 #citycentre

New relaxing, sitting, meeting spot on Te Komititanga. Complete with (non-amplified) music 🎵 ☀️#citycentre 🏙️😎😍

For Thomas Coughlan's article on Roads of National Significance: www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/...

Mānawatia a Matariki! ✨🌆 Here’s a bumper roundup of the week that was, for your leisurely long weekend reading. www.greaterauckland.org.nz/2026/07/10/w...

Not to be all “we told you so”… …but we did, in fact, tell everyone so. Repeatedly. And with receipts. 🤷🏻‍♀️😎 👉 www.greaterauckland.org.nz?s=Rons Now that reality is sinking in at last, can we please get back to planning and building right-sized, rational, resilient and multi-modal transport networks?

Auckland's 2016 upzoning gives us a real-world example of a clean causal effect. First, building permits increased dramatically in upzoned areas. 1/

Mānawatia a Matariki! ✨🌆 Here’s a bumper roundup of the week that was, for your leisurely long weekend reading. www.greaterauckland.org.nz/2026/07/10/w...

"Multiple sources" reckon City Rail Link may open at the end of next month? 🤨 If true, now's the time get your hands on our cute station-themed merch! A fun way to share the love *and* support your fave urbanist non-profit. Check out the goods here 👉👉 greaterauckland.digitees.co.nz/shop/categor...

Not to be all “we told you so”… …but we did, in fact, tell everyone so. Repeatedly. And with receipts. 🤷🏻‍♀️😎 👉 www.greaterauckland.org.nz?s=Rons Now that reality is sinking in at last, can we please get back to planning and building right-sized, rational, resilient and multi-modal transport networks?

This morning’s post is looking pretty prescient after the late morning announcement of the new “staging” of the RoNS… (Then again, we’ve been saying this for years and years and years - sooner or later, reality was bound to kick in, with a vengeance!)

Anyways as I said last year: www.greaterauckland.org.nz/2025/11/06/t...

Chris Bishop has been left to clean up Simeon Brown's mess. My piece on the backdown today: www.thepost.co.nz/politics/361...

NEW: Chris Bishop has unveiled the Govt's major backdown on the Roads of National Significance, with just six with guaranteed construction dates. Here's 2023 promises v now:

The “Roads of National Significance” are looking questionable. A mono-modal mania; an electoral treat that’s getting harder to sell. Outdated. Antediluvian, even. @connorsharp.bsky.social spells out why they’re not just unfundable, but now unthinkable: www.greaterauckland.org.nz/2026/07/09/w...

Minister Chris Bishop has mustered cross-party consensus for the National Infrastructure Plan, a rational, evidence-based framework for major new investments.👏 We have one simple ask: why wait?🤷 Start now, by pausing the RoNS—‘cos the maths isn’t mathing: www.greaterauckland.org.nz/2026/07/07/o...

Minister Chris Bishop has mustered cross-party consensus for the National Infrastructure Plan, a rational, evidence-based framework for major new investments.👏 We have one simple ask: why wait?🤷 Start now, by pausing the RoNS—‘cos the maths isn’t mathing: www.greaterauckland.org.nz/2026/07/07/o...

Te Ara Tupua, the capital's new walking and cycling path, has transformed the route into a model corridor for our times: resilient, multi-modal and present-proofed. That's exactly what's needed for Auckland's harbour too, says @patrickreynolds.bsky.social: www.greaterauckland.org.nz/2026/07/06/t...

Te Ara Tupua, the capital's new walking and cycling path, has transformed the route into a model corridor for our times: resilient, multi-modal and present-proofed. That's exactly what's needed for Auckland's harbour too, says @patrickreynolds.bsky.social: www.greaterauckland.org.nz/2026/07/06/t...

Yep that's cold auckland

Projection on south exterior wall of Te Waihorotiu Station event starting on Saturday, 4 July ending25/9.

Further colour pops from the stairs #tgif

Pop of colour time. Whaddayareckon?

Mōrena from Tamaki Makaurau

The supposedly progressive campaign to restrict housing in posh suburbs

A ginormous weekly roundup today! We're getting in ahead of next Friday being a public holiday for Matariki ✨ Dig in for stories on climate resilience, fuel, ferries, housing – plus welcome common sense from the Government, re kids getting around by bike: www.greaterauckland.org.nz/2026/07/03/w...

Very useful video to settle debates (in New Zealand, and elsewhere) on whether increasing speed limits on highways from 100kmph to 120kmph make any sense. You only ever save, at best, around one minute. Taken from Instagram, www.instagram.com/reel/DaP4kyF... #nzpol

Re-posting because very topical 😉🤔 These maps show: 1) land value (the economically smart & desirable places for more homes) 2) where the water infrastructure can handle it 3) climate-friendly transport options Basically: put housing where people want to live affordably, accessibly & sustainably!

Today's throwback post is inspired by comedian/ truth-teller Chris Parker's joyful "Auckland affirmations".😁 He's right—while there's still heaps to do, it's a transformational time for Tāmaki Makaurau, and in many ways we're lucky to be living through it: www.greaterauckland.org.nz/2026/07/02/t...

Auckland's housing policy is up for discussion (again), with two options: one is the bare legal minimum, while the other smartly focuses upzoning around transport & town centres. We've written to the central Local Boards urging their support for Option B: www.greaterauckland.org.nz/2026/06/30/o...

Auckland Council's Governing Body (mayor + councillors) on today, at the Auckland Town Hall from 10am. Big agenda; I suspect we'll be here until 7pm. Nothing hugely controversial in itself (we have a v difficult confidential item) and we are doing the final final sign off for the budget so that.. /n

Auckland's housing policy is up for discussion (again), with two options: one is the bare legal minimum, while the other smartly focuses upzoning around transport & town centres. We've written to the central Local Boards urging their support for Option B: www.greaterauckland.org.nz/2026/06/30/o...

I think we should start measuring government programmes in Hayden Donnell's 'metres of roading'. Lowering the age of bowel cancer screening to 45? 5 metres of road. A year of Three Waters? 63 metres of road. Reading recovery? 13mm of road.

Given 40% of NZers live in the "Golden Triangle" of Auckland/ Hamilton/ Bay of Plenty... why can't we catch trains between these cities, like a normal country?🤔 @darrendavis.bsky.social on what needs to happen for passenger rail to run to Tauranga (again): www.greaterauckland.org.nz/2026/06/29/t...

Let's keep arguing about parking spaces, everybody.