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#BusNews: NZTA is seeking feedback on improvements at the Newton Road on-ramp and off-ramp to improve reliability for the WX1.
The proposed improvements would see new sections of bus only lanes in both directions and new traffic lights at one intersection.
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#RailNews: Auckland Transport has confirmed the details of the upgraded evening trains and peak services coming on November 22.
Trains will run every 15 minutes until 11pm on Friday and Saturday nights providing an extra 48 services a week.
#RailNews: Auckland Transport has confirmed to NZ Transit Buzz that the first increase in train services post CRL opening is coming from November 22.
Full details will be shared shortly but some preview information has been shared.
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#RailNews: A new all-time daily rail patronage record has been set in Auckland on October 30 with 108,447 trips taken by train.
The milestone capped off the busiest October on record for rail in Auckland. More than 2.1 million trips were taken across the month.
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The overwhelming majority of people who use Queen Street have ALWAYS reached it by public transport, walking or cycling.
But… There are well over a thousand carparks basically on Queen Street, Civic and Victoria are always 50% empty on any given day apart from when a show is on
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We need to shift the narrative from make petrol cheap to make petrol redundant.
The longer we rely on fossil fuels, the more expensive life becomes.
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Typical neighborhoods in Berkeley and Hannover.
It looks like Berkeley is denser, right??
It's not even half as dense as the Hannover neighborhood.
Central Berkeley: ~16,000 / sq mi, ~12 units / acre.
Linden-Nord: ~43,000 / sq mi, ~41 units / acre.
And this is because 93% of housing units in the Hannover neighborhood are in buildings with 3+ units, where as Berkeley is mostly single-family homes.
The thin perimeter block apartments create neighborhoods that are denser yet greener than the single-family neighborhoods.
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This stopped me in my tracks.
An independent study by @QMUL has found that after ULEZ was introduced, children’s lungs grew faster in Central London and have now caught up with children outside of the capital. Incredible.
Air pollution stunts children’s lung growth. New Queen Mary research found that improvements in air quality after the introduction of London’s ULEZ are associated with accelerated lung growth in children.
Read more: shorturl.at/Jx86o
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The gently sloping line at the bottom is our world 252 million years ago, when temperatures increased by 8C across 60,000 years killing 90% of all species.
It is a period known as The Great Dying.
That vertical red line is the world our children live in.
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City centre upgrades take time but are worth it. It’s important to look back while focusing on the future. The team at the Auckland Urban Development Office knows how much I love before and after shots so they sent me these five images today to share.
Vision and hard decisions.
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Every morning, every change of lights, so many bikes taking advantage of the cycleway . So good to see.
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The Elizabeth Line moves more people daily than the busiest highway on Earth. Transit solves a geometry problem cars cannot.
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this is a pretty fun side-by-side. britomart pre-takutai square and train station. auckland 2001 vs 2026
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The Elizabeth Line has been a resounding success and has been FAR more popular than Government predictions though it would be.
We should be building far more lines up and down the country.
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the thing that gets people on transit isn’t free fares it’s not having to check a schedule. a bus that costs $2 and comes every 6 minutes will outperform a free bus that comes every 30 minutes every single time. frequency is the product. the fare is a rounding error
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Miriam has a locked account but I want to share her “I think Auckland is great” photos.
Great work from Britomart. 👏🏻💜
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Imagine if the government hadn’t undermined EV incentives, cleaner vehicle regs, walking & cycling funding & focus and not put all the eggs in 4 lane RONS everywhere.
We’d at the very least be more resilient and more able to pivot. They even took away our electric ferry funding.
