HeyJaredSimon Wilson
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Simon Wilson: Wider Auckland needs about 1000 emergency beds. Move-on orders won’t fix that (opens the original)
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Aggressive and antisocial behaviour is what shopkeepers and others want to get off the streets. But the people doing that are among those with the highest needs: mental health, addiction and a quite well-founded fear of authority. Photo / Getty Images I went to see Helen Robinson the other day. She’s the Auckland City Missioner and I wanted to ask her about rough sleepers. She suggested I come to HomeGround, the mothership, at 8.30am on a Wednesday because that’s when they sing. It was so great.
Simon Wilson: Who really wants to cross Auckland's beautiful Waitematā Harbour in a tunnel? (opens the original)
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Spick and span: Nicolas Reid’s proposal has public transport and pedestrian provisions. Photo / Supplied A few months ago, a man called Nicolas Reid dusted off a proposal from 2024 for a new harbour bridge in Auckland. Such proposals are not as uncommon as you might think. Private individuals and groups have put them up at least seven times in the past two decades, and since the 1970s, by my count, there have been at least 13 official reports. Transit NZ, forerunner to the NZ Transport Agency (N
Slow train coming: the arduous route to Auckland’s City Rail Link (opens the original)
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It wasn’t Len Brown’s idea. It wasn’t even Robbie’s. Auckland’s underground rail link, which will open on Sunday, September 13, has had two great mayoral champions in its time, but the idea predates them both. In 1923, then railways minister and engineer Gordon Coates wanted to build the “Morningside Deviation”, a tunnelled “metro” to connect the city centre with the suburb, about 4km to the west. The Ministry of Works revived the idea after World War II, but in that postwar period, a much bigge
Clean green, gone? The new bill which could see subdivisions in the Waitakere Ranges (opens the original)
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Homes on the range? Auckland’s protected Waitakere Ranges may face subdivision. Photo / Getty Images The way Shane Jones of New Zealand First tells it, with his “goodbye Freddie” jokes, conservation is all about saving a few endangered species on hard-to-reach conservation land. But it’s not just a few. We have 4000 endangered species and caring for them is only one part of the battle. One of the biggest attacks on the environment right now is happening in our cities, in reforms to resource mana
Simon Wilson: Compromise after compromise, Auckland’s housing plan has been agreed. Mostly... (opens the original)
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Out with the old: Greater housing density is planned for Auckland. Photo / Supplied Auckland Council has come to the end – more or less, almost, possibly – of 13 years of angry, exasperating debates about housing density. The caveats are important: these debates will never really be over. But they are moving on. The council’s compromise on a compromise, adopted 17 votes to 5, proposes that 85% of existing homes will not be zoned for greater density, most “special-character” housing will be safe
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