Auckland Transport ends award-winning road safety programme ahead of Road Safety Week
Auckland Transport breaks local and international commitments by abandoning safety in its latest SOI.
Have your say on the Annual Budget for 2025 – 2026
Here’s your opportunity to let Auckland Council know what you want them to invest in over the next financial year. We’ve put together some prompts to get you started.
Put People Ahead of the Road Lobby, Say Transport Advocates
Cycling and walking organisations nationwide are calling on the government to put the health and safety of New Zealanders ahead of vested interests in the road lobby.
Warkworth’s Hill Street fiasco and what it means for community-led transport design
Hill Street is a perfect storm – a complicated and confusing bottleneck with high traffic from the five roads going into it. Now Transport Minister Simeon Brown has withdrawn Government funding for long-awaited improvements – at least in part because they include cycleways.
Auckland Council showed up for our transport choices!
If you have been following the saga of Central Government underfunding our cycleways and how that’s affected our 10 year plan for transport, you will be pleased to know that option 4c, the option which best protects a pipeline of cycling projects was unanimously endorsed at Auckland Council Governing Body meeting.
Protecting Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland’s Transport Future: Letter to Councillors Cheat Sheet
Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland’s transport future is under threat due to the NLTP funding decisions. Your Councillors can’t make these decisions without hearing from you. Help them understand the need for safe cycling infrastructure.
Cycling around the news – 10 October 2024
In a bumper fortnight for news, we share a roundup of updates from the community, our own articles and news from other outlets in one handy list.
How will Auckland Council address the cycling budget shortfall?
Government’s transport plan has underfunded walking and cycling, leaving a budget shortfall for Auckland Council. Councillors will decide which projects to continue and which to pause. It’s an important time to write to your local representatives and show your support for investment in cycling.
Safer, Smarter, Sooner – about these concrete tim tams…
In our budget constrained environment, we need fast and affordable solutions which support more people to feel safe to cycle and scooter from A to B. Pop up protection is a crucial part of the solution (alongside safer speeds) for filling in more of our disjointed cycle network.