Auckland’s Public Transport Network in Action
Following on from admins post about frequent network mapping yesterday a video has appeared online showing Aucklands public transport network throughout the day. It is actually something I have wanted to see for a long time. A couple of things I noted from it are: It strikes me just how complex our PT network seems, there are lines going all over the place.…
7 Comments Frequent Network Mapping
I have mentioned on many occasions in the past how Auckland’s bus route maps look like someone “threw spaghetti at a wall”. Let’s have a look at the eastern isthmus area as a classic example of this:
This map is actually completely useless – except for reinforcing the point that Auckland’s bus network is extremely complicated and difficult to understand.…
Thinking differently about ‘rail to the airport’
In many of the debates about whether building a railway line to Auckland Airport should be a priority or not, most of the focus has been on making it easier for travellers to get between the city and the airport. This is somewhat understandable, as for regular travellers it seems bizarre for the trip between the city and the airport to take longer than the flight between Auckland and Wellington.…
Puhoi-Wellsford videos
I hadn’t actually noticed these before, but there are a number of Youtube videos about the Puhoi-Wellsford Road beyond just the alignment of the Puhoi-Warkworth section. We have:
Project overview: Ground conditions/geology: Road Design: Environment: Traffic: Ecology: Noise: Watching these videos I do get a slightly weird feeling that everyone knows this project’s a huge waste of money, but they’re going through the motions simply because they have to.…
Puhoi-Warkworth: my submission
NZTA’s preferred alignment for the Puhoi-Warkworth section of the Puhoi-Wellsford “holiday highway” is currently open for submission – until January 28th. I went to an open day on the alignment late last year – and blogged about some of the details at the time.…
Changes to monthly GoRider passes
NZ Bus has announced changes to the way in which GoRider monthly passes work. Basically, monthly passes will no longer be validated in the machines, just shown to the driver – and that they will operate on a calendar month basis – rather than for a whole month since purchase date.…
Q&A with David Warburton
David Warburton is the CEO of the Auckland Transport Council-Controlled Organisation (CCO). I sent off a few questions to him and a number of other senior staff at Auckland Transport on issues that I think might be of interest to the public.…
Expanding the ferry network
As part of Len Brown’s announcements yesterday on his vision to increase public transport patronage to 150 million trips a year by 2021, there was quite a lot said about improving the ferry network. Here’s what was included in this article from Stuff in terms of improvements proposed to the ferry system:
His plan for ferries is an ambitious one.…
150m public transport trips by 2021?
Some interesting public transport announcements today by Len Brown – probably best encapsulated in this article from Stuff:
Aucklanders could soon be taking ferries to many different areas of the city, catching a train on the CBD rail loop or cycling to work under a plan by mayor Len Brown to more than double the patronage on public transport within 10 years.…
Planning controls and urban sprawl
A week ago I wrote a post about how, contrary to common perception (particularly the perception of a certain Minister of Transport), planning rules (and planning in general) tends to force lower density urban environments – rather than forcing higher density environments against the market’s will.…
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