Guest Post: Postcard from Amsterdam
This is a Guest Post by regular commenter Stuart Donovan, who has spent much of the last year living in Amsterdam.
Frankly my dears I’d have to give A’dam the full “douze points.” Living in Amsterdam is like wandering around in the middle of a fairytale – you half expect Shrek and donkey to wander by at any moment. …
32 Comments Real-time rail signs: finally nearly here
It has long amazed me that Auckland has had real-time bus information signs for a number of years, but not real-time information signs at any of our trains stations. Logically, when one thinks about it, creating a real-time system for buses should be much more complicated than doing the same thing for trains.…
How far we’ve come
It’s easy to constantly criticise Auckland’s rail system for its short-comings. Today I caught the train in from Morningside to Grafton (a pretty unfair two-stage trip) and noticed that the internal train map still said “opening in mid 2010” next to its Onehunga branch.…
Auckland Transports Draft Statement of Intent
Auckland Transport will devote their next board meeting on 29 June entirely to their draft statement of intent (SOI). The SOI will be a pretty key document as it effectively determines what their goals will be for the next 3 years (they have had a temporary one to cover November to July).…
$65 to Cycle across Harbour Bridge
The NZ Herald reports on a proposed cycling event in December that will enable people to cycle over the harbour bridge – if you pay the entry fee of at least $65. There are also a whole pile of weird conditions that it seems NZTA have applied to the event.…
The Unitary Plan
There has been a lot of talk over the past few months about the “Auckland Spatial Plan” and more recently about the City Centre Master Plan. Both these documents are undoubtedly important in defining goals for Auckland as a whole or for the city centre, highlighting important projects, discussing how funding might be acquired for various important projects and generally setting out an important vision for what Auckland should be like in 30 years: whether that vision be for the entire Auckland region (in the case of the spatial plan) or for the city centre (in the case of the City Centre Master Plan).…
Sylvia Park: PT success or missed opportunity?
When I think of the Sylvia Park shopping centre in Auckland, from a transport perspective, it seems to tick a lot more boxes than many other shopping centres around Auckland (particularly St Lukes). The primary reason for this is that Sylvia Park has a train station right next to it – a station that seems fairly popular, especially on weekends.…
Auckland’s improving CBD
One of the pitfalls of looking at transport and urban planning matters on a daily basis is that you can sometimes lose sight of the bigger picture. For want of a better phrase, it definitely is possible to “lose sight of the forest for the trees”.…
Auckland’s stupidly complex bus system
Over the past week I’ve sat at the bus stop outside the hospital waiting for a fair few buses – either to head into town or to catch the Link bus back to Ponsonby. Park Road is part of the Central Connector and therefore forms one of the most core parts of the Auckland bus network.…
Keeping Track newsletter
Auckland Transport has launched what I think is a good initiative, by having a bi-monthly newsletter that discusses improvements to the rail network throughout Auckland – known as “Keeping Track”. The first version of the newsletter can be viewed here, and they will be handed out to rail passengers over the next week or so.…
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