The Amtrak to Boston
Today we caught an Amtrak train from New York to Boston. After starting the day with the usual cream cheese bagel (I think we managed to stay around the corner from the best bagelry in New York City, judging by the number of people who went there and the number of award they’ve won) we jumped onto the “1 train” at 110th street station, transfered onto the “3 train” (which is an express) at 96th street and made our way down to the 34st Street Penn Station subway station.…
3 Comments Mike Lee: Our past can determine our future
Mike Lee’s latest blog post talks alot about Auckland’s past and how times have changed since the 50s. Here is the snippet of the post about transport. It is very likely Mike Lee will be the Councillor for the CBD (Waitemata and Gulf) so he could have a big roll to play in the future of the CBD tunnel.…
Is fare-free a fair go?
It’s been a while since I posted anything so I thought I’d step in while Josh is away to help keep things ticking over, my apoligies for the length and wordiness of this one!
The outcome of last Sunday’s motorway closure in Newmarket left me with some sense of vindication as a public transport advocate.…
Electric train shortlist lengthened
A rather odd article in yesterday’s NZ Herald caught my attention when reading through the Herald website. It would seem as though the “shortlist” for the suppliers of Auckland’s electric trains has been lengthened quite significantly, with a number of new companies vying for the $500 million contract.…
Pedestrian friendliness
This will have to be a quick post as I’m hogging a computer in the SoHo Apple Store at the moment.
We’ve spent the day mainly wandering around parts of New York, including the lovely Greenwich Village and the very trendy SoHo.…
Hello from NYC
Well after a rather crazy marathon flight via Sydney and Los Angeles, we finally made it to New York at around 11pm Friday night. Getting from the Airport to where we are staying turned out to be quite a challenge, involving the very flash air-train, the E-Line subway (which took forever, but nice to use the subway) and then eventually the 1-Line subway.…
The Plan
I haven’t posted for a while and Josh being a way gives me a chance to get back in the groove. One of the reasons I haven’t posted for a while is because I think our brains work about 10 times as fast as money is available and about 50 times faster than most policiticians brain’s move.…
Off
Well 9am tomorrow morning I fly out to New York, via Sydney and Los Angeles.
While I’m away posts will probably be a little less frequent, and certainly quite a bit shorter! However, I hope to post reasonably frequently, particularly to shed some light on the transport systems of the USA and Canada.…
July 2010: another good month for PT
ARTA’s monthly business report for July 2010 has been uploaded to their website, and once again it makes good reading for public transport – in terms of patronage growth, improving service reliability and significant progress being made on capital works projects.…
Faster boarding: the great opportunity
Next time you catch the bus, especially a bus like the Link which stops frequently, have a think about the amount of time the bus spends between stops and the amount of time the bus spends halted, waiting for passengers to hop on and off.…
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