Interesting website. This bit:

Constitutional in origin refers to the fact that dyslexia has a substantive neurobiological basis. Brain research, including studies from Yale and Auckland universities, has shown that while it is common to use the ‘verbal’…

For sure Steven, I’m surrounded by it; a good friend, my sister and I suspect my wife too. With the friend, she’d known from quite a young age, I didn’t really cotton on to the fact with my…

What I love about you is that you never use dyslexia as an excuse for…

still. have you seen the acceleration on those things?

A time and place when a Tesla left us awestruck as opposed to merely being something we purchase to drive through gullies.

We could always call in Heart of the City chief executive Alex Swney Afterall ,he only cares about what’s good for Auckland.…

Disappointed that she nailed his entire being in a single sentence more like:

Catton criticised New Zealand as a country led by "neo-liberal, profit-obsessed, very shallow, very money-hungry politicians who do not care about…

Maybe Plunket meant to tell Catton to 'puss off and go fork yourself'.

I will use St Lukes. It's only slightly further away from where I turn into the main road than the Carrington Road corner is, and that intersection can be a real bugger to get through.

But unless you use St Lukes, the tunnel doesn't actually make your own route have more motorway – you'll…

That is not entirely the point. There is not that much you can do about peak hour traffic without getting people to use mass transit.

But what is more important is that outside peak hours a large amount of traffic will be removed…

And what's this? I seem to have found myself agreeing with Rodney Hide. I feel... unusual.

Roads Scholars?
Down here our traffic engineers are a tad more holistic and nihilistic about congestion...
it was not a case of "just solving the red [heavily congested points]".…

Yet traffic engineers…

Yet traffic engineers prefer to pretend this common 'induced demand' does not exist when they do their modelling to justify moar roads.

Like Mr Gracewood, I believe that won't take long – especailly now that we have more drivers using real-time traffic apps and sites to guide their route choices.

The commuters of Mt Albert, Hilsborough, etc who previously…

Which is their biggest sin. If the trees hadn't been there, we wouldn't be having this conversation. Bad trees! Naughty trees!

"Dangerous tree. Please don't come close" the sign sees. Gotta watch those trees. They slow the wind, hold the soil in place, help keep erosion and desertification in check, turn carbon dioxide into oxygen, provide shade in the summer (and…

Yep. It's a fraction of the actual distance to/from the airport but depending on time of…

Asphalt uber alles. This govt already made protecting urban trees harder as well. Gutting our RMA comes next. Let nothing stand before the profits of property developers.

Pretty sure you're right that Pt Chev won't have access to the tunnel.…

I'm a bit confused about this. From what I can see, we don't lose any of the current on or off-ramps at Pt Chev. So you can still come…

The same “no big deal” approach also applies to the Puhoi Warkworth toll road, where 376 mature kauri are in for the chop.

Really? What the hell is going on down there?

He is justifiably angry with the weaseling going on.

Sadly most of the commenters seem to have forgotten that Western Springs essentially replaces Pt…

He uses the word "clusterfuck" in the post. Calling that level of furious "unimpressed" is up there with calling Hurricane Katrina "a mild breeze". Nicely done.

They've already started painting the new lanes, and it's confusing.

Also: temporarily taking away a citybound lane reduces the temptation to use Point Chev as…

Easy solution seems to be removing one…

MOTAT never objected to the alternative cycle/walk path (behind the trees): it was never even canvassed with them. They did express a preference for maintaining local parking, but that's not the same thing.

The Waitemata local board was also not…

Turns out the Pohutukawa 6 must be sacrificed for teh bikez lanez…

Congratulations on the mention in the Herald editorial. Some of the cycleway developments out your way…

I believe the young folk would refer to it as a "sick burn".

In government terms, we call that a spanking.

But doing that in the space of the designation would have meant taking lanes away from general traffic, and we can't be having that!

This is a little bit different, in that most of SH20 already…

Well, yeah. What generally happens is that traffic improves for a while, then people realize that a car commute from X to Y is now doable, so they buy a house in X and start driving to work.…

Fair enough, and especially regarding his niceness. But his column was not balanced or accurate. Like it or not he gave the impression of being extreme in his views.

Most folks feel some roads are good and not every tree is…

ouch!

I find it sad that NZTA would spend money on lawyers (and probably not inconsiderable sums) to…

It’s a minute from the EPA Board of Inquiry on the Waterview Connection, after it had published its draft decision requiring NZTA to building a walking and cycle path over Section 8 of the link (ie: above the tunnel).

NZTA was still trying to wriggle out…

Indeed. Effective advocacy like theirs doesn't come cheap or easy either.

It’s vital to note that these things didn’t just happen – they were the result of the advocacy of groups like Cycle Action Auckland, which eventually obliged NZTA to build or fund the overground stretch of the SH20 cycleway…

Paul’s not a radical and he’s a nice bloke, but he didn’t write his column with the benefit of any research (or purport to, to be fair) which meant he was worse than useless when he had to talk about it in…

Who cares if they are wrong surely not the public that the media are meant to be informing.

Fewer/lazier producers? No researchers any more? No professional or human pride?

Contrary to what he said, Aucklanders were asked about it. The first consultations were in…

Yeah. That’s a battle that wasn’t won – but it does seem that bus traffic will be faster after the…

Hell yes.

Bus passengers out West (especially those who live “beyond” Te Atatu) really are third-class commuting citizens. For the most part, they’re stuck with infrequent and expensive services that inch their way along chronically congested arterials (Lincoln Rd, Great North Rd, Te Atatu Rd, etc.)…

But it would have meant spending money on public transport capital works, all of it coming from the NZTA budget,…

That sentence fills me with rage and despair. Now would seem the perfect time to me, given how much work is going into raising the causeway. It's long overdue already.

Surely that depends on their destination and origin, once the monstrosity that will be the SH18/SH1 interchange is constructed? If they're on the inner part of the…

Currently, we're the main route through to SH20, which accounts for quite a lot of traffic.…

A little more balance between cars and bikes is what is needed and perhaps those designing cycle routes could…

No, as Steve says, the work in Auckland so far has either come from the council/AT or as mitigation…

Thanks Mark! I've added that to the post.

Actually, I don't think the national cycleway project has anything at all to do with it. There's nothing even listed for Auckland on its website.

But from this year, there…