I have been meaning to write a post on how Perth – a somewhat similar city to Auckland in terms of its size and structure – has revolutionised its public transport system over the past few years, but these two videos do the trick quite nicely. Peter Newman is a world-leading expert in transport, land-use planning and sustainability. What he says makes a lot of sense.
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Re. Prof Newman’s comment that “Buses are good, but second-best”: for short, local routes they’re quite appropriate, whilst for line-haul travel they’re much worse than even second-best. Anyway, increasing public transport’s market-share to 10% is might impressive for a city of such low density, and proves Auckland is not doing the best possible, by any means.
Very cool… Inspiration for those dream rail maps..!
Excellent and informative..well done.
I’d be interested to see what taxes/tolls if any? on perth roads during this period
eg 1979-09?
Seems to have some clear points indeed which are somewhat relevant for Auckland http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWOHDOVBIQw