Station boarding data

Auckland Transport has kindly sent me some really useful data showing boardings at each station on the rail network for the years between 2003 and 2010. The excel worksheet can be accessed here, and the information is shown below: It’s worth remembering that these are boardings only, and they’re also just a snapshot.…
42 Comments

Will HOP make rail fare evasion more or less common?

A couple of weeks ago I caught a Western Line train from Britomart to Morningside during the PM peak. It didn’t seem to be an unusually busy train – with a few standees past Newmarket but definitely not ‘crush loaded’. Rather surprisingly, not a single ticket collector even entered our carriage until we had reached Mt Eden station, and the clippie only just reached me seconds before I got off the train at Morningside.…
25 Comments

Dead running – and how to reduce it

The Human Transit blog has a good post about “dead running”, which effectively is the time buses spend not in service. Jarrett notes the two general circumstances that create dead running: All transit vehicles must travel between their operating bases, where they are stored and maintained, and the beginning and endpoints of service.…
2 Comments

Trams are back

I somewhat missed this story over the past few days, with lots of other things going on, but earlier this week the two heritage trams arrived from Melbourne that will run around the tram loop in Wynyard Quarter. Here’s Auckland Transport’s media release: The return of trams to Auckland streets came a step closer today when two historic tramcars rolled off a ship from Melbourne at Jellico Wharf.…
28 Comments

The next generation…

Well a pretty amazing and unexpected day today. My fiancee Leila was due to have our baby on July 14th, but it seems that the little thing was a bit impatient and couldn’t wait that long. Cue very hurried labour and a gorgeous little girl born at 12.04pm today.…
38 Comments

AA Survey on Auckland Transport Issues

Other than the City Rail link, there was another interesting presentation at the transport committee on Tuesday, the results of a survey conducted by the AA. The survey was conducted in the middle of may and sent out to a selection of their Auckland members, they had 6030 responses and the results have a margin of error of +1.3%.…
12 Comments

City Rail Link presentation

On Tuesday officials from Auckland Council and Auckland Transport made an extensive presentation to the Transport Committee on the City Rail Link project – in particular on the business case review and why there are differences between their position and government’s position.…
44 Comments