It’s a policy or, if you like, a strategy originally intended to put a big dent in the city’s transport emissions. The TERP was born in August 2022, the child of Auckland Councils of a rather more progressive blush than our current one. It arrived at a time when the climate crisis wasn’t being quietly ignored: The city had declared a climate emergency in 2019 and later the following year followed up with Te Tāruke-ā-Tāwhiri, Auckland’s Climate Plan. The new climate plan was ambitious – it aimed to cut the city’s greenhouse gas emissions by half by 2030 against a 2016 baseline. Prior to a restructure currently under way, it was written by Auckland Transport with input from the council, Waka Kotahi and KiwiRail.