I agree 100% with John Banks
I never quite imagined that I would say it, but I agree 100% with John Banks’s opinion piece in the NZ Herald today:
I seek nothing less than Auckland becoming the aspirational capital of the South Pacific. Modern Auckland is a successful city.…
18 Comments Why is NZ Bus being so stupid?
Firstly, let’s start with a few definitions:
Work-to-rule is an industrial action in which employees do no more than the minimum required by the rules of a workplace, and follow safety or other regulations to the letter in order to cause a slowdown rather than to serve their purpose.…
Avondale Station – progress
An important part of the works being done to Auckland’s Western railway line is the relocation of the Avondale train station. The previous station was located in a poor location – directly on a bend in the line, and also did not have good connections to the Avondale town centre.…
Jane Jacobs – Neighbourhoods in Action
Here’s a great video on how the different ways we design towns and cities can have a huge impact not only on the quality of our communities, but also on the health of the people living within them. Jane Jacobs wrote perhaps the most important urban planning book of the 20th century – The Death and Life of Great American Cities.…
Very Limited Replacement Bus Services on Weekend
The already limited replacement bus services that we saw on Thursday and Friday have been cut back even further on the weekend. This is detailed below: Now it’s good to slowly see some extra services come online – like the Sandringham Road one – but I must say that I am disappointed that more of an effort has not been made to get as close to normal weekend services as possible.…
How everything went wrong for Auckland
Strangely enough, while today Auckland is a highly auto-dependent city (notwithstanding recent improvements to the public transport system and the upswing in patronage), this has not always been the case – and certainly this outcome was not completely inevitable. An excellent journal article by transport expert Chris Harris, called “Slow Train Coming“, explores how it all went wrong for Auckland in the mid-20th century.…
Auckland’s Bus-less day
Well the bus lockout happened today, and while things held together in the morning it seems as though chaos did begin to unfold during the evening peak as people struggled to get on the limited supply of replacement buses and the trains.…
Portland’s Transport Plan
Portland, Oregon – in the northwest corner of the USA – is a relatively similar sized city to Auckland. The ‘actual city’ (probably their equivalent of “Auckland City”) has a population of around 575,000 while the whole metropolitan area has a population of around 2 million.…
Universal Local Support for CBD Rail Tunnel
There’s an extremely interesting article in today’s Herald about Auckland’s CBD Rail Tunnel. Now, to be honest I think it’s great simply having articles in the newspaper about the CBD Rail Tunnel no matter what tone they have – simply because it raises awareness of this project.…
Tomorrow’s Bus Disruptions
Well everyone seems to know by now anyway, but just in case you didn’t the lockout of drivers at NZ Bus will begin at 4am tomorrow and continue indefinitely. This is in response to the drivers (and cleaners) saying that they would “work to rule”.…
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