Waterfront Trams
An interesting article in yesterday’s herald on the possibility of having heritage trams running between the Tank Farm development and Britomart station.
Waterfront trams are being tipped as key Auckland tourist attractions, with a possible later benefit for public transport.
Although the Auckland Regional Council has no plans for a modern light rail network to serve commuters, its transport committee voted yesterday to press on with an investigation of potential tram routes through the Tank Farm to Britomart.…
8 Comments ANZAC Centenary Bridge Information
I slightly jumped the gun with yesterday’s post about the launch of the ANZAC Centenary Bridge website – as it’s only live today. There’s quite a bit of information on the site, including a number of images – and also a feasibility study.…
Snapper Shocker
A couple of days ago Josh did a post about the announcement from Snapper that their “integrated ticketing” system would be installed on all the buses in Auckland belonging to NZ Bus, I have a different take.
It is obvious from the actions of Infratil and its subsidiaries, Snapper and NZ Bus this year that this group of companies has absolutely no interest in improving Auckland’s transport or even being a good a “corporate citizen”, no interest even in growing their long term receipts from increased public transport ridership, rather they are consumed with increasing their short term profits and getting a “larger piece of the existing pie” rather than “making a bigger pie”.…
1950s Motorways Video
An interesting 1958 video on the future of transport. It’s interesting to see how optimistic people were about the future of car-based transport, or just on how technological advancement would improve the world. While I do spent a lot of my time hassling 1950s transport thinking, I do accept that at the time these planners really did think they were changing the world for the better.…
The ANZAC Bridge Idea
Well it seems as though yesterday’s announcement that NZTA had lodged the notices of requirement for the future cross-harbour tunnels was no co-incidence, as today the previously mentioned ANZAC Bridge idea is going to be unveiled. As shown below, the ANZAC Bridge is not only a new bridge, it’s also a replacement for the existing bridge rather than in addition to it.…
Harbour Tunnels – notice of requirement lodged
Today, NZTA have lodged a notice of requirement (effectively a designation application) for the future Harbour Tunnels underneath the Waitemata. Quite interestingly, they have included both rail tunnels and road tunnels in that designation – which will effectively ‘protect’ the route from future conflicting development.…
Why I care about transport
It’s interesting to see the variety of people who end up being “transport advocates”, “transport geeks” or just interested in transport issues. From the people I know interested in transport matters we have a software programmer, a police forensics expert, an accounting student and a radio marketer (among others).…
Snapper in Auckland
A very interesting development for public transport in Auckland happened today, with the announcement that Infratil are going to roll-out their Snapper Card onto all NZ Bus bus services. Here’s the press release:
Snapper to enter Auckland market in 2010, targets Rugby World Cup for comprehensive integrated ticketing.…
Is New Zealand Falling Behind the US? Part 1
This is my first post on Josh’s blog – hopefully over time having two perspectives (though generally similar, but potentially slightly different on some matter) on Auckland’s transport will lead to even more posts, even more discussion and debate and even more knowledge about where Auckland’s transport is going wrong and how it could be made better.…
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