Auckland Transport Blog v Auckland Transport’s website
When it was decided that the new transport agency in Auckland would simply be called “Auckland Transport“, I thought it was amusing that if they ever wanted to run a blog, I’d got there first with the name of this blog.…
6 Comments AT Business Report Feb 2011
The papers relating to the Auckland Transport Board meeting are now online, there is a lot to go through but I thought I would put some of my initial thoughts up and I’m sure Admin will as well. Looking initially at just the business report here are some things that piqued my interest (note: this doesn’t include everything from each section)
2.3 Public Transport
A record 33% of the crowd were carried by special event rail and bus services to the Big Day Out at Mt Smart Stadium on Friday 21 January.…
Finally we learn something about “PTOM”
There has been a long-running debate raging over the future of the “Public Transport Management Act” since it was passed in 2008. Infratil, who run NZ Bus (who are the largest bus operators in Auckland), were very displeased with this legislation and took their concerns to the new Minister of Transport after the 2008 election, Steven Joyce.…
Petrol back above $2 per litre
The price of 91 octane petrol had been sitting at $1.99.9 – effectively $2 a litre – for quite a few weeks until I noticed on Friday afternoon that the psychological barrier of $2 had been broken, with the stations around where I live showing a price of effectively $2.03 a litre.…
Exploring the mystery $300 million
I noted in a post last week the weird mysteries in Auckland Council’s draft annual plan when it comes to what they’re going to be spending the transport money on. To refresh memories, here’s a table showing the council’s proposed capital expenditure on transport for the 2011/2012 financial year: The big mystery is the $307 million proposed to be spent on the “road network” in the 2011/2012 financial year.…
NZTA’s sound barrier double-standards
One welcome improvement to the way NZTA builds motorways over the past few years is the addition of sound barriers. I’ve spent quite a while wandering around Greenlane (delivering leaflets about the Project Greenlane upgrade a few years back) and one thing you really notice when you’re walking near houses located close to the southern motorway is just how damn noisy it is.…
Fare gap between buses & trains starts to close
Auckland Transport has conducted their annual fare review and decided that bus and ferry fares will remain the same, but that train fares will rise by around 10 cents per stage. Here’s the media release:
Auckland Transport said today it has completed its annual review of bus, ferry and train fares.…
Vancouver’s TravelSmart
Vancouver in Canada is a city that Auckland can learn a lot from in terms of improving our transport system and the general quality of our urban environment. Vancouver has many similarities to Auckland, a constrained geography, a similar density and a similarly low proportion of jobs in its central city.…
Why can’t we just called it “airport rail”?
Auckland Transport announced today that progress is being made on what’s weirdly been called the “South-Western corridor multi-modal transport study” – or something along those lines. This is certainly good news, as we need to ensure the route for rail to Auckland Airport is secured as quickly as possible – and it would seem this study is a key step in achieving that.…
Big push to complete station upgrades before electrification
There was some great news to come out of yesterday’s Auckland Transport board meeting (though it’s a pity they haven’t bothered to include any detail of what was discussed at the meeting on their website yet ). That news is that the board has agreed in principle to complete an upgrade of all existing train stations in the Auckland region by the time electrification is up and running – which now seems like it might be early 2014.…
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