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Waterview Application With EPA
NZTA’s application for the $2 billion Waterview Connection on State Highway 20 has arraived at the Environmental Protection Authority. The government’s...
23 Want To Be SuperMayor
Here are the 23 people vying to be Auckland’s first ever supermayor. In all, the Auckland council election will be fought by 23 mayoral candidates, 100 council...
Skateboarders Get Park Back
Skateboarders, whose skate park was dislodged because of the Vic Park tunnel project, have finally got a new playground. Auckland City Council, with NZTA funding,...
Toxic Sea Slugs On City Beach
The toxic sea slug has appeared on an Auckland city beach for the first time - Kohi beach. 3 specimens have been discovered on the beach. They have been...
Brown Will Still Push Transport
Mayoral candidate, Manukau’s Len Brown says he’s not going to shut up about transport in Auckland. In a statement, he says he’ll continue to advocate...
Dealing To Elephant In Room
Plans for the future of elephants in Auckland took a step forward today. The Auckland City Council’s arts, culture and recreation Committee has endorsed a...
BusLane Debate Is Global
Don’t be fooled into thinking Auckland City’s bus lane enforcement is something peculiar to this city. The campaign over issues related to motorists...
Council Takes On Prolific Tagger
Auckland City Council has filed a civil action in Auckland District Court against a certain prolific graffiti vandal aged 21 and wants him to cough up $33,000 in...
Viaduct Parking Trial Continues
Auckland City has encouraged apartments in the CBD - some would say to the severe detriment of the landscape- but is still wrestling with the thorny issue...
C&R Support T2 Bus Lanes
Two C&R Auckland city council candidates for the Albert-Eden-Roskill Ward today supported council proposals that favour a T2 transit lane over a full bus lane...
SuperMayors On CBD Loop
Auckland’s supermayoral candidates today took part in their first televised debate -and were asked who could deliver a CBD rail loop to the city. Here is...
Council Reviews Bus Lane Policy
An Auckland City Council’s transport committee meeting in September will consider the contentious issue of motorists using bus lanes when turning left. In the...
Missing Link
The delayed missing link in the 12km SH20 cycleway finally opens Sunday. It now takes in the volcanic cone of Puketapapa-Mt Roskill in Winstone Park. Cycle/walkway...
AuckCity Defends Bus Lane Fines
After a week-long barrage by the Royal New Zealand Herald about motorists being fined for entering bus lanes too quickly before turning left, Auckland City Council...
T2 FeedBack Extended
Auckland City Council has extended the feedback period on its controversial T2 bus lane proposals for Dominion Road “due to a high level of public interest.” Feedback...
Too Much Rush On T2 Changes
An Auckland City Councillor is worried the council is “just going through the motions” with its call for public views on the planned changes to Dominion...
Brewer: Review All Bus Lanes
Auckland City Orakei ward candidate Cameron Brewer is calling for a complete review of the city’s entire bus lane policy - and says the new supercouncil...
Have Your Say On T2 Plan
Auckland City Council has opened the Dominion Rd T2 issue up for public feedback. This comes in a week in which the ARC transport and urban development committee...
Banks: How I Will Be Accountable
Mayor John Banks today outlined his plan of how he and his new supercouncil would be accountable and transparent to Auckland. He claims the policies would make the...
Councillors: Scrap Waterview
Left-leaning Auckland City councillors this afternoon tried to get the council to demand the NZTA dump its SH20 Waterview part-tunnel development and “go back...
ARC Says No To T2
As expected, an ARC committee today opposed the Auckland City proposal to allow cars to use Dominion Road bus lanes. The transport and urban development committee unanimously passed...
Waterview Decisions Loom
Labour Mt Albert MP David Shearer and representatives of groups like the Mt Albert Residents Association, Friends of Oakley Creek and the Waterview Environmental...
ARC Oppose Dom Rd T2 Plan
The ARC’s transport & urban development committee will next week consider opposing the Auckland City’s plans to allow cars with 2 or more occupants...
Tears Shed Over Queens Wharf
The big shed on Queens Wharf is going to be saved - but who is going to pay the millions needed to save it? In typical Auckland political fashion, the answer...
Harbour Crossing Move
The next step has been taken today to progress whether we get another harbour bridge across the Waitemata - or a tunnel, as Auckland local body leaders collectively...
