Lighting the Bridge
It was announced on the weekend that the Harbour Bridge is to be permanently lit up with coloured lighting
An impression of what the bridge lighting could look like
The Auckland Harbour Bridge will soon have permanent coloured lighting which – in a world first – will be powered by solar energy and battery, and can be transformed into special event lighting displays.…
8 Comments Controlling City Rail Link costs
In September last year it was revealed the City Rail Link’s cost may have increased from $2.5 billion to $3.4 billion. As much as we have strongly supported CRL over the years, and continue to do so, a $900 million cost increase is massive.…
Sunday reading 28 May 2017
Hi and welcome back to Sunday Reading. Here’s a bunch of links I’ve compiled over the week. Please add your links in the comment section below.
The headline image is from the Medieval Fantasy City Generator, by watabou.
Here is an important discussion about how women experience and use the city differently than men.…
Saturday Flashback: “Junkspace: Rem, Lee and me”
This post originally appeared in May 2012.
We know that by choosing to rely on the private vehicle as the primary means of movement in a city we are choosing the single most expensive way for us all to get around.…
April-2017 Ridership
Auckland Transport’s board meeting – where we usually get the monthly ridership results from – is not till late June but they’ve published the April results. We’ve become used to seeing impressive ridership growth on Auckland’s PT network as the numbers for each month come in significantly higher than the same month the year before.…
Budget-17 outcome – Where’s the funding?
So yesterday the government revealed its budget for 2017. So here is a look at the relevant announcements related to Transport
As we expected, the government included funding for the City Rail Link in the budget, but only $436 million so far.…
T2/3 or Bus Lane – How AT decides
Recently a lot of discussions have been occurring on how AT decides whether to place a Transit Lane vs a Bus Lane, I decided the investigate and this is what I found.
According to the AT Code of Practice on the matter, the following flowchart is used
Special Lane Flowchart
So for a route to qualify for a Bus Lane it has toBe either a Frequent Transit Network route or have 15bph.…
Making Auckland better, faster
Last week I wrote about what I described as the great Auckland turnaround story. Auckland seems to be beginning an urban renaissance, backed by a raft of fundamental policy reforms and new investments in urban infrastructure such as busways, metro rail, and cycleways.…
What the 2017 budget could deliver for transport
Tomorrow Steven Joyce delivers his first budget as Finance Minister. Here are a few thoughts from a transport perspective on what we know will be in it, what might be in it and what we hope will be in it.
Photo: RNZ
What we know will be in the budget
As part of statements made in the lead up to the budget, Joyce has made a number of comments about upcoming spending, including that the budget will set out up to $11 billion of new capital spend which is on top of normal spending from the likes of the National Land Transport Fund.…
City Centre Targeted Rate Budget
Recently I have gone through the latest Agenda of the City Centre Advisory Board and found some very interesting items. I will endeavour to post updates from Agenda’s in the future if anything new pops up as I think many of you will be interested, as it contains updates on the upgrades that are funded by the City Centre Targeted Rate, including projects from the City Centre Masterplan.…
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