September 2009 Patronage – another decent result
ARTA’s September 2009 Monthly Business Report is out, and – continuing the trend of the past few months – shows solid, if unspectacular, growth in public transport patronage. Total patronage was up 3.6% on September 2008 – which equates to 181,882 additional boardings throughout the month.…
3 Comments Funding for Integrated Ticketing Confirmed
Great news today, on two counts: Funding for integrated ticketing has been confirmed by NZTA
It’s Thales, and not Infratil (Snapper). Freaking YAY!
Funding approved today for Auckland’s integrated ticketing system
The Auckland Regional Transport Authority (ARTA) says it is delighted the New Zealand Transport Agency Board (NZTA) has approved funding today to move forward on the development of an integrated ticketing and fares system for Auckland’s train, bus and ferry users.…
The Transport Balance
A couple of weeks back my girlfriend Leila pointed me towards reading a blog post about positive space and negative space. The post is actually about writing, rather than related to any particular transport matter, but it uses an architectural concept to make a point about writing.…
Newmarket Station
Newmarket station has been under construction for a long time now, and quite excitingly we’re getting very close to the final result – with opening day only a couple of months away in earlyish January. I have glimpsed the station from the train as it has been under construction over the past year or two, and I have also seen a lot of photos that other people have taken, but until last weekend I hadn’t actually seen it ‘up close’ in person before.…
The Parsons Brinkerhoff Study
As part of the formulation of the Regional Land Transport Strategy, which is now open for submissions until December 18th, the Auckland Regional Council looked at a range of options to set the ‘strategic direction’ behind the RLTS that they have eventually come up with.…
Could congestion be a good thing?
If there’s one over-riding dogma for transport planners throughout the past 50 years it would be this: “congestion is bad”. Almost everything that transport planning, traffic engineering and anything else related to this field has been about over the past 50 years is based on the belief that congestion is a bad thing, and we should do everything we can to minimise, avoid or – at best – completely banish congestion.…
RLTS Released Tomorrow
Tomorrow the 2010-2040 Regional Land Transport Strategy will be released for consultation. This is a key strategy that will guide Auckland’s transport development over the next thirty years, so I am very glad to see that it is a well balanced document, providing around $21.5 billion for public transport improvements and operating costs over the next thirty years, compared to $24 billion for road improvements and maintenance.…
Electrification – a solution
Auckland’s rail electrification project has had a torrid history. For years the previous government put it off, put it off, refused to stump up any money, put it off some more… and then finally came up with a solution where Aucklanders would pay for the project via a regional fuel tax.…
CBD Rail Tunnel – the 2004 study
The CBD Rail Tunnel project has been proposed for around 80 years now, and has popped up at various point during that time: in the 1920s, the 1950s, the 1970s and most recently since 2004. This latest occasion will hopefully be the “real thing”, and we will finally get this critical project constructed after 80 years.…
Sydney’s Breakfast on the Bridge
Unlike Auckland, you can actually walk across the Sydney Harbour Bridge – and it’s one heck of a nice walk actually. But Sydney aren’t just satisfied with having proper pedestrian and cycle paths across the harbour, they actually celebrate how nice their bridge is by relatively frequently closing it off to traffic and holding special events on it.…
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