Why is the Western Line so slow?
Yesterday I caught up with a bunch of fellow transport enthusiasts and we all trundled out to Swanson Station, near the end of the Western Line, to have lunch. It was a good chance for me to actually see all the Western Line (with day-passes we all caught the train out to Waitakere station after lunch and then rode it back to town), as I hadn’t been past Henderson in a great number of years.…
18 Comments Peak Car?
An interesting blog post by David Metz, author of the very very good book “The Limits to Travel“:
I read with interest Phil Goodwin’s Comment piece in Local Transport Today of 25 June in which he introduced the concept of ‘peak car’, and look forward to his promised further exposition.…
Why roads should help pay for rail
In the ongoing process that is the development of the Auckland CBD rail tunnel project, there’s a giant “elephant in the room” that nobody seems particularly willing to touch – I’m guessing because nobody really has much of a clue about what the answer would be.…
What’s up with Waterview?
Buried within a rather triumphant “OMG we’re spending masses of money on this roading project” media release from NZTA on the Waterview Connection are a few rather interesting nuggets. For a start, here’s the media release:
NZTA to call tenders for NZ’s biggest ever roading project
The NZ Transport Agency today announced that it is to call tenders to build the Waterview Connection, the biggest and most complex roading project ever in New Zealand.…
May 2010 Patronage – further good growth
ARTA’s May 2010 Monthly Business Report has been released and as always it makes for interesting reading (I hope that the Auckland Transport CCO will continue to publish something like these reports). Here’s a brief summary of the report: The long-term patronage graph shows that May 2010 was the third or fourth highest month, patronage wise, over the time tracked.…
Farebox recoveries & transport emissions
An interesting question time today in parliament discussing the implication of farebox recovery ratios, the emissions trading scheme and so forth.
The transcript is available to read here. Did Joyce really say that forcing people from public transport into their cars will decrease transport emissions?…
Feedback sought on Holiday Highway
NZTA’s consultation process for constructing the Holiday Highway has kicked off in a rather interesting fashion – as they’re inviting people to help “uncover Dome Valley’s secrets”. Here’s the media release:
Uncovering Dome Valley’s secrets – NZTA needs your help!
The new Puhoi to Wellsford road of national significance is about the future but the NZ Transport Agency says planning and construction of the route also has a lot to do with its historic past and its present day environment.…
Parking and St Lukes
There’s a particularly large planning application (in the form of Private Plan Change 8) working its way through the Auckland City Council system at the moment, which relates to the possible expansion of the St Lukes shopping centre. The proposed expansion is pretty damn big – upping the possible size of the mall from around 45,000 m2 of floor area to a maximum of 92,500 m2, of which some would be office rather than retail.…
Public Transport Lecture
I’m not sure if I will be able to make this, but it certainly looks interesting: If you do make it, it’d be great to hear how this went.…
Simplifying bus routes: the east isthmus
Continuing on with my series of post about simplifying the structure of Auckland’s bus network, I thought that after a couple of reasonably simple routes (Sandringham Road and New North Road), I thought I’d take on a really horrible challenge: the eastern isthmus area of Auckland.…
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