Weekly Roundup 9-May-2025
It’s another wet Friday so here are a few stories to read while you (hopefully) avoid the rain. This Week in Greater Auckland On Monday, Matt covered Auckland Transport’s latest plans for speeding up buses on Dominion Rd.
For Wednesday, Matt looked at what is happening with ridership on our PT network.…
73 Comments Removing Level Crossings at Three Train Stations
A few months ago the government announced it would contribute $200 million towards level crossing removal in Takanini and at a few stations so that the Southern and Eastern lines north of Papakura would be fully grade separated. This enables us to make better use of the City Rail Link in the future.…
Public Transport Ridership for the start of 2025
It’s been a few months since we last covered public transport usage and we’ve passed through March Madness so it’s time to have a look at how our PT system is performing again.
First up, at a monthly level we can see that there’s been a mixed start to the year which suggests that the post-COVID recovery appears to have stalled.…
Small fixes to help improve Dominion Rd
Making public transport faster and more reliable is some of the key ways to get more people to use it, meaning more people can move around the city. Yet far too often we rely on big projects to deliver these improvements. …
Weekly Roundup 2-May-2025
Wow we’re in May already and with ANZAC day last Friday we skipped the round up so here’s a bumper crop of the things that have caught our attention over the last two weeks. The last few weeks in Greater Auckland On Wednesday last week we ran a guest post from Darren Davis on public transport fares in Queensland.…
Auckland Transport doubles down on diluting Project K
Last Wednesday, Greater Auckland sent an open letter to Auckland Transport about last minute U-turns on designs for the area around Karanga-ā-hape CRL station. Our letter was co-signed by over a hundred people including many local residents and businesses, Auckland Central MP Chlöe Swarbrick, and organisations such as the City Centre Residents’ Group, Bike Auckland, Campaign for Better Transport, and more.…
On politics, professional ethics, and premature death on our roads
Today’s guest post is an open letter by Dr Bridget Doran, a transportation engineer, researcher, and human factors psychologist, on the question of politics and professional ethics in the context of the new Speed Rule.
It’s a timely read for our local audience.…
Government’s Road Announcement Week
Transport Minister Chris Bishop was on a project announcement spree last week. As well as the Northwest Busway which I covered on Thursday, he also announced updates on three Roads of National (party) Significance in the Upper North Island.
A couple of things that stands out from these: From ones that have costs listed, is that construction cost inflation is massive and at $5.5 billion, the City Rail Link is starting to look like even better value.…
Northwest Busway Makes Progress
In the history of Auckland’s many transport blunders, not building a busway along the Northwestern Motorway at the same time the motorway was being widened and interchanges rebuilt, when the need was clear and the success of investments like the Northern Busway were already understood, is up there with some of the worst we’ve had.…
Fares fair in the Sunshine State?
This is a guest post by Darren Davis. It originally appeared on his excellent blog, Adventures in Transitland, which we encourage you to check out. It is shared by kind permission. Context
Queensland launched 50 cent flat fares across all urban bus networks in the state in August 2024 (including free transfers), initially as a cost of living relief measure implemented in the lead-up to the October 26 2024 state election.…
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