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Background 1. What is ATAP? The Auckland Transport Alignment Project or ATAP is a project focused on improving alignment between central and local government over the way Auckland’s transport system needs to develop over the next 30 years, including...

  Today’s Daily Blog Watch Round-Up of matters that have attracted the attention, assessments, and articulations of this country’s leading bloggers and on-line satirists… NZ Left Blogosphere No Right Turn offers up; Savant...

Kia ora The Green Party will push for changes to make it easier and less traumatic for victims of sexual assault to report their crimes. Our justice system is broken when a 13-year-old girl complains to police that she had been raped by a gang of young...

A small storm in Queenstown over some sewerage pipes on a new bridge points to how little we know about the vastly expensive infrastructure we pay for, writes Peter Newport. We are all guilty of not knowing the actual cost of things. The tax on petrol...

I’m quite interested in the debate going on in Auckland at the moment about whether population growth should be accommodated by more “sprawl” or increased density. In particular, people claim Auckland currently has quite a lot of sprawl...