Pedestrianising Queen Street
The NZ Herald (on the front page of the print version too!) has an article today on a few of the things that I mentioned in a blog post last week the new Auckland Council was thinking about when it comes to improving Auckland’s CBD.…
9 Comments Monthly Recap – January 2011
This is the start of a new feature on here, a quick recap of all of the posts we have had from throughout the month. I think most post titles are fairly self-explanatory but any that aren’t I will try and give a brief description.…
A Beach-Haven to Greenhithe bridge?
I don’t often propose new roads on this blog, but there are a couple of possible new bridge connections around Auckland that I think could be very useful additions to our roading network and would potentially be more useful ways of spending our roading budget than on forever widening motorways.…
Don’t forget the public transport users
We are heading for an interesting situation in the next few months along Dominion Road, as plans to improve the bus system along that road are further developed. As I noted in a fairly recent post, Auckland Council’s transport committee has specifically requested that median bus lanes be analysed as the potential solution for providing far better public transport along the road.…
Keeping it lean and mean: getting the maximum ‘bang for buck’ from the CBD tunnel (Part 2)
This post is part two of a collection of affordable and effective ways to get the most out of the proposed CBD tunnel, see part 1 here.
5) Modify the Britomart throat crossovers to maintaining the ability to terminate long distance trains.…
Keeping it lean and mean: getting the maximum ‘bang for buck’ from the CBD tunnel (Part 1)
As a long time advocate of public transport in Auckland I feel a certain sort of glee at the huge groundswell of support for a CBD rail tunnel in Auckland. With the likes of our new mayor Len Brown pushing hard it seems we will soon have unstoppable political momentum for the project.…
Auckland Council’s submission on Puhoi-Warkworth
The next meeting of Auckland Council’s Transport Committee is at 1.30pm next Tuesday in the Reception Lounge of the Town Hall. Compared to past meetings, the agenda for this one is fairly small – not surprising given that they had a meeting just before Christmas and most of the time in between has been holidays.…
Transport and the Auckland Spatial Plan
As I noted last week in my blog post on the London Spatial Plan (known as the “London Plan”) a lot of emphasis is being put on the Auckland Spatial Plan (known, surprisingly enough, as the “Auckland Plan”). This was further reinforced by Auckland Transport CEO David Warburton, who in response to a question I asked about “how are we going to integrated land-use and transport when our planning and transport staff are in two separate agencies?”…
B-Line on weekends too?
The B-Line initiative on Dominion Road and Mt Eden Road bus services has apparently been quite successful. For a minimal resource investment (just a few stickers and a marketing campaign) patronage has apparently increased quite markedly on these two bus routes.…
Council’s exciting CBD vision
The agenda to the February 1st meeting of the Auckland Future Vision Committee contains a paper on the “Proposed International City Masterplan”, which seems to be a holistic look at how to transform Auckland’s CBD over a 20 year period into a much nicer place.…
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