A Transport Blog?

Well we might as well give this a crack, I guess there are a few questions to pose myself to get this thing going.

• Why the heck write a blog on Auckland’s Transport, it sucks, end of story!
• Well this is probably a good question to pose from the start. I do have issues with Auckland’s transportation system. Most obviously with the public transport system, but obviously there are issues with the roading and motorway system too. However, it feels like there is JUST SO MUCH HAPPENING to transportation in Auckland at the moment that I’m going to be damn busy just trying to keep up to date with what’s going on. In short, this is a really critical period in the history of transportation in Auckland, so you don’t want to miss out!
• Is this going to be another blog which is just a link fest to newspaper articles?
• I really really want to avoid that from happening. While it’s good to use news in a blog, I don’t want it to be totally based around news items that are dripped through the media. I mean heck, most people reading this site will probably have already read a Herald article before they get around to reading this, so what’s the point? Hopefully I’ll include a lot of user-experiences (as I do catch buses pretty frequently these days), combined with news, combined with lots of pontificating about what the powers to be should be doing (probably my favourite thing to do!)
• Why not just start a new blog?
• Well I kind of approached this question in yesterday’s blog post. The jarbury.net blog has been around since January 2001 in some shape or form, and it really forms an important aspect of who I’ve been throughout that time. I will bring in stories about my life where they mix with transportation, or even if I just have something interesting to share. Therefore I guess there’s enough crossover to keep things going. However, do expect a few changes around here in the near future.
• Are you going to update more than once a week?
• Well isn’t this always the big question? I mean in general my blogging is fairly erratic in how frequent I post. However, at least at the moment I have a heck of a lot of ideas that could turn into fairly reasonable posts, so who knows – maybe every 2-3 days is realistic. I’m sure there’ll be enough news relating to transportation to ensure that I don’t want to get too far behind.

OK, well who knows how much things will change in the next while. I feel like I’ve been half-shifting towards this change for at least the last few months, so hopefully it will make things easier. Surely I’m a better response for the google phrase “Auckland transport blog” than bloody Aaron Bhatnager anyway!

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