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@sbaker1428

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Town planner, urbanist, environmentalist, transport nerd, multimodal explorer 🏙️🌳🚲🚌🚂. Autistic, Pākehā, He/him. Views are my own.

Tāmaki Makaurau, Aotearoa NZ
Joined April 2021
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Shaun Baker
10 months
Waihorotiu Path now fully open.
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2 months
New piece from Auckland Council’s Chief Economist revealing that 64,800 new homes have been built between 2018 vs 2023. An 11.9% increase compared to 5.4% increase in population. Outstripping population growth for the first time in decades.
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10 months
Cycleway on Taniwha St as part of Links to Glen Innes is finished ✅ 🚲
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2 years
Queen Street full of colour this evening.
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4 months
Photos from Tory Whanau’s IG showing the progress made to Pōneke’s cycleway network over the last 3 years with cycle trips from Newtown to the city centre up by 140% since 2022. Great mahi @WgtnCC 🚲
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18 days
New photo from CRL of the concourse level of Te Waihorotiu Station, which is now over 90% completed.
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1 year
Golden hour on Quay St 🌆
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8 months
New photos from CRL showing the progress inside the tunnels near Maungawhau Station compared to a year ago.
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1 year
Nice to see Tūrama back on Queen Street for Matariki.
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6 months
Thread looking at the progress of the urban regeneration of Britomart and Wynyard Quarter over the last 15 years🧵
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10 months
Nice to see the new 4 Square at Britomart open.
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7 months
Te Huia bound for Kirikiriroa 🚂
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3 months
Te Waihorotiu Station shining bright.
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Shaun Baker
2 years
Walked down Queen Street to check out Tūrama as part of Matariki celebrations. Looks great!
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10 months
New photo from CRL of the platform at Te Waihorotiu Station. Progress is looking great!
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9 months
Sunny day on Queen St 🏙️☀️
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11 months
Safety improvements around Devonport including raised crossings and protected uphill cycle lane.
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Shaun Baker
8 months
Had a look at the completed Parnell Station underpass. Looks good!
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Shaun Baker
8 months
New photos from CRL showing the progress of the CRL platforms at Wāitemata Station.
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Shaun Baker
2 years
Great seeing green roofs being installed on top of the city library. Great way to improve our air quality, increase our biodiversity and reduce stormwater runoff in the city centre. They can also act as a carbon sink. Hope we see more of these!
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2 years
2050 plants now call top of Auckland's Central City Library home
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1 year
New photo from CRL showing the interior of Te Waihorotiu station starting to take shape with escalators and stairs installed at the Wellesley Street entrance.
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5 months
Ngapipi Bridge is open and finished. Looks nice!
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3 months
A look at Meola Rd 🚲
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11 days
Te Waihorotiu Station at dawn.
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2 months
New photo from CRL of the platforms at Karanga-a-Hape Station starting to take shape.
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1 year
Went to check George St, Looks great! 🚊
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Shaun Baker
3 years
Some personal news: I'm moving to Auckland in the new year to join the team at Auckland Transport as part of their next intake of graduates. I’m looking forward to joining the team and learning about the planning involved in maintaining a transport network
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2 months
Karangahape Rd open for people.
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3 years
I hope the success of Te Huia will incentivise the govt more to introduce commuter rail in Chch under a similar model.
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Shaun Baker
1 year
New photos from CRL showing of the platforms at Te Waihorotiu Station taking shape. Lots of progress compared to how it looked like in photo on the left taken 10 months ago.
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Shaun Baker
2 years
Nice to hear the birds chirping on the way home.
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3 months
The Skytower in blue for World Oceans Day 💙
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7 months
Happy Saturday from Queen St 🏙️
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8 months
Nice Saturday afternoon for a bike ride 🚲
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2 months
New wayfinding on the city centre bike loop 🚲
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1 year
Sunny Tuesday bike ride. Tāmaki Dr footpath works are completed. Looks great!
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Shaun Baker
3 months
Now fully unwrapped, Looks great!
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3 months
Not far away from 100% unwrapped now.
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8 months
Birthday bike ride around Ōrakei 🏙️🚲
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Shaun Baker
2 months
What could have been 🚊 😭
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@GreaterAKL
Greater Auckland
2 months
This video is from one of our recent OIA requests and comes from 2018. Shows what we could have had if the previous govt hadn't been distracted by unaffordable metro schemes. More in an upcoming post.
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1 month
New renders out from Panuku of Te Ara Tukutuku on the northern end of Wynyard Point.
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10 months
Small update with the planters being put back in.
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11 months
Nearly all the bricks laid down between Fort and Shortland St. Not too far away from the whole section being finished.
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2 years
Beautiful day to buy an e bike!
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5 months
Bollards being installed at Te Komititanga near One Queen St.
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6 months
New photo from CRL showing the completed sky element facade at Maungawhau Station.
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2 months
Wellesley St entrance to Te Waihorotiu Station June 2022 vs June 2024.
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1 year
The viaduct at dusk 🌆 Pō mārie Tāmaki Makaurau.
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4 months
New article from me on why Te Huia should continue running and why need to continue reviving inter-regional rail in Aotearoa. Link in bio.
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4 months
Had a look at the Streets for People project at Māngere Bridge. Featuring a pop up cycleway between Ngā Hau Māngere and Māngere Bridge town centre 🚲
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4 months
Heritage buildings around Britomart lit up.
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The skyline of Tāmaki Makaurau at daybreak 🌆
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6 months
Queen St open for people 🏙️
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10 months
Thread showing before and after of city centre streets after road space allocation.
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8 months
Sunny day on Vulcan Lane with 50 and 51 Albert St emerging from behind ☀️🏙️
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2 months
Small look at the progress of the works at Te Hā Noa.
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4 months
Pō mārie Tāmaki Makaurau 🌃
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10 months
Sunny afternoon on Tāmaki Dr ☀️
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1 month
Finishing touches on the Kāinga Ora development on Point Chevalier Rd.
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9 months
Small look at Victoria St. Progressing well with more of the cycleway taking shape.
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Shaun Baker
2 years
Bike ride around the city centre at dawn 🌅🌆
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Shaun Baker
2 years
Spent my Saturday morning doing two of my favourite things: bike rides and train rides.
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Shaun Baker
9 months
Also, a before and after shot of Victoria St and Albert St intersection with the streetscape works finishing up. Showing the road space reallocation.
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2 years
Kia ora Auckland!
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2 years
Ngā Hau Māngere is open. Looks great!
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2 years
Nice to see some more planters on Queen St.
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4 months
Progress on Kāinga Ora apartments on Point Chevalier Rd. Looks not too far away from finishing.
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2 years
Nice reading spot.
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2 years
Scaffolding starting to go down at the Chief Post Office. Looks nice!
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2 years
Graduated today!
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21 days
Density 🏢 + road space reallocated for cycling 🚲 and greenery 🌳 = 🥰
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Qagggy!
21 days
THEN & NOW. There is still work to do, but London is building a bigger, better, greener city.
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2 years
Update on Wai Horotiu Queen Street works:
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Shaun Baker
9 months
New photos from CRL showing panels starting to be installed onto the Wellesley St entrance of Te Waihorotiu Station.
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11 months
Beautiful Sunday in Tāmaki Makaurau ☀️🏙️
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7 months
Small look at the progress of the works for Te Hā Noa.
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Had a look at the progress of the works for Te Hā Noa.
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8 days
Happy Friday from Te Komititanga 🏙️
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10 months
The ferry building at dusk 🏙️🌆
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3 months
New photo from CRL of the Western Line platform at Maungawhau Station.
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Shaun Baker
2 years
Found a new reason to love living in a mixed use building. If you ran out of coffee in your apartment, you only need to go downstairs to get a barista made one.
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4 months
Wayfinding being added to the verandas at Waitematā Station.
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9 months
The city at dusk 🌆
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2 years
Went a walk around the city centre to check on the progress on Wai Horotiu Queen Street project works. Works well underway between Vulcan Lane and Durham St. Works near Shortland St and near Victoria St are finished.
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3 months
Wynyard Quarter at dusk 🏙️
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2 months
More photos of the new wayfinding on Quay St 🚲
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Shaun Baker
2 months
New wayfinding on the city centre bike loop 🚲
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1 year
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4 months
At look at the works at Meola Rd, Progress is looking great!
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1 year
Went for a after work bike ride. Lot of new developments finished and under construction around Ponsonby.
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2 years
Mōrena 🌅🚂
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1 year
New photos out from CRL's LinkedIn page showing the progress of tunnels at Maungawhau Station.
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6 months
Love this picture in Tory Whanau’s article on LinkedIn explaining why enabling more density is important for our cities.
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9 months
Had a look at the progress of 51 Albert St. Progress is looking good.
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1 year
Bike ride around the city centre bike loop at dusk 🌆🌃
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2 years
Love seeing deliveries being done around the city by bike. 👍
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7 months
Had a look around Maungawhau Station.
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3 months
New photo from CRL of the interior fit-out of concourse level of Te Waihorotiu Station with floor tiles being laid down.
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1 year
Night time bike ride around Wynyard Quarter with light displays installed for Matariki celebrations. Looks great!
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6 months
The harbour bridge full of colour 🌉
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7 months
New photos from CRL showing the super long escalators being installed at Karanga-a-Hape Station. At 40m long, they are longest escalators in Aotearoa.
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3 months
Artists impression of the proposed Ockham development in Freemans Bay spotted in Alex Bonham’s Local Board report.
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@CityAklccrg
AK CC ResidentsGroup
3 months
some city centre resource consent issues in @MissBonhomie 's Local Board report for June. Members reports here:
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18 days
Part of the sky element facade at the Mercury Lane entrance to Karanga-a-Hape station unwrapped. Looks good!
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14 days
Saturday afternoon in the city 🏙️
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