Tolling for a new harbour crossing
An article in the NZ Herald today raises the typical old debate of whether tolls should be introduced to fund another harbour crossing. If any issue was ever likely to raise the heckles of the North Shore, this is it:
Transport Agency consultants believe tolls of $6 to $8 could pay for a new Auckland harbour crossing.…
32 Comments 1960s thinking alive and well in Wellington
As much as I think Puhoi-Wellsford is a stupid project and a complete waste of money, I have now been convinced that it is nowhere near the worst of the Roads of National Significance. That incredibly dubious prize must, without a doubt, go to Wellington’s Northern Corridor RoNS.…
National Infrastructure Plan
The government has today released its second National Infrastructure Plan, outlining its expenditure (and the principles behind it) on infrastructure such as transport, electricity, telcommunications, water and social infrastructure over the next four years. In terms of transport, as far as I can see there’s absolutely nothing new in the plan – but it provides an interesting and useful collation of information.…
Postcard from Edinburgh
Here in Edinburgh the sun is shining and it’s warm enough to open the windows, which I’m guessing means two things: First, Scotland has finally emerged from the last ice age and, second, the woolly mammoths will soon retire to their summer cottages in the heathery highlands.…
Has HOP made your bus faster?
After a couple of weeks catching really random buses to and from the hospital, last week I got back to something near my normal commuting. I also noticed that the uptake of people using the HOP card seemed a lot greater than it had been a couple of weeks earlier – especially during the peak times when I normally catch my buses.…
PT Advocates: technicals & politicals
Alon Levy’s Pedestrian Observations blog has a fascinating post on the two group of ‘transit advocates’ in the USA, which he splits into the ‘technicals’ and the ‘politicals’. Here’s how he describes the two groups:
Politicals are the people who tend to trust the transit authorities, support a general expansion of all rail transit projects, and believe the primary problem is defeating oil-funded anti-transit lobbies.…
Marketing PT better
Generally I feel that Auckland Transport (and ARTA before them) does a pretty poor job of marketing public transport in Auckland. They’re obviously not helped by key factors such as the vast variety of different bus companies, or the general lack of funding and neglect for the PT system up until recently, but there are clearly ways in which we could do things better.…
PT funding getting screwed over (again)
The agenda for next week’s Transport Committee meeting is online. Generally it’s a fairly light agenda, with the most interesting things likely to be presentations from Auckland Transport on the rail station upgrade program and on the final version of the Central Flagship Project bus changes.…
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