Hamilton Urban Blog

The 85 percent parking tipping point

Is 30% of traffic congestion caused by cars searching for car parking?

Dec 20, 2025 • Peter H Bos

November 2025

Wider CBD & Frankton car parking value

Once about 85 percent of car parking is occupied, cars begin cruising or queuing looking for vacant parking, making travel times predictably unreliable.

Nov 29, 2025 • Peter H Bos

October 2025

Bypass slows Hamilton traffic and GDP

After the opening of the Hamilton bypass in 2022 traffic congestion increased by over 5 percent on Hamilton’s three northern bridges, with 4,200…

Oct 4, 2025 • Peter H Bos

September 2025

CBD & Frankton traffic supporting spending, but not foot traffic – cars only

Card spending trends in the Hamilton central and Frankton (CBD&F) areas follow traffic volume trends and the traffic volume trend line is not increasing…

Sep 27, 2025 • Peter H Bos

Hamilton EAST council election 2025, Living Streets questionnaire to candidates

Living Streets Kirikiriroa / Hamilton is a pedestrian advocacy group, and is a branch of Living Streets Aotearoa, which is the New Zealand organisation…

Sep 20, 2025 • Peter H Bos

Hamilton WEST council election 2025, Living Streets questionnaire to candidates

Living Streets Kirikiriroa / Hamilton is a pedestrian advocacy group, and is a branch of Living Streets Aotearoa, which is the New Zealand organisation…

Sep 20, 2025 • Peter H Bos

Waikato Regional council election 2025, Living Streets questionnaire to candidates

Living Streets Kirikiriroa / Hamilton is a pedestrian advocacy group, and is a branch of Living Streets Aotearoa, which is the New Zealand organisation…

Sep 13, 2025 • Peter H Bos

July 2025

Retail Spending – Hamilton CBD outperforms Base

Over the past decade both the CBD and sub-regional centres (the Base and Chartwell) have been losing market share of retail spending to the rest of…

Jul 19, 2025 • Peter H Bos

February 2025

2023 Hamilton’s Home owners and Renters

Hamilton’s census 2023 rate of 46.1% for owner-occupied homes is very low by international standards.

Feb 15, 2025 • Peter H Bos

2023 Census Hamilton Home ownership in SA2 Areas

Western Heights is reliably a neighbourhood of home owners (68% owner occupied).

Feb 8, 2025 • Peter H Bos

2023 Census Hamilton Renters at SA2 Areas

The percentage of homes being rented in Rototuna East has doubled over the past decade (21% in 2013 to 42% in 2023) and it is very likely that, with a…

Feb 1, 2025 • Peter H Bos

January 2025

2023 Census Hamilton Population density at SA2 Areas

Only the industrial northern area of Te Rapa North lost population between 2012 and 2023 (was 180 people, now 135).

Jan 25, 2025 • Peter H Bos