How do we stop this?
I finally got around to taking a photo this evening that I’ve been meaning to take for weeks now – at the corner of Hobson and Victoria streets in downtown Auckland:
Note the green light in the background. It had actually been green for quite some time when I took the photo – there’s a bus just out of view to the right that missed an entire phase due to these idiots.…
27 Comments Is public transport cost-effective?
One of the strongest arguments public transport sceptics like Steven Joyce have, when trying to justify the pitiful amount of funding dished out to PT compared to that lavished on new motorways, is that the level of subsidy to PT is growing faster than patronage – particularly over the past 10 years.…
Labour finally ask some tough transport questions
I have (rightfully I think) hassled Labour for not paying enough attention to transport in recent times, letting Steven Joyce get away with a lot of the poor transport decisions that he’s making. So it was good to see them put together a few challenging questions today: (Zip past the first minute or so, which is just silly stuff).…
LINK bus fare structure announced
The fares for the three LINK bus routes that we’ll have operational from August 21st was announced today by Auckland Transport:
Auckland’s newest bus services, the Outer, Inner and City LINK bus services begin operating on Sunday 21 August.
Auckland Transport’s Public Transport Operations Manager, Mark Lambert says, “Fare structures have now been finalised for all three services.…
Why did the 1955 Master Transportation Plan focus so much on roads?
As I explained in this previous post, the 1955 Master Transportation Plan for Auckland was a turning point in this city’s approach to transport policy. It pulled us away from the balanced approach of earlier transport plans and towards an exclusive focus on building roads.…
No real explanation for slashing PT infrastructure funding
The Ministry of Transport have released the cabinet paper that accompanied the final version of the Government Policy Statement – released by Steven Joyce last week. It’s worth reading through, as cabinet papers typically provide a bit more of an insight into the real thinking behind some of the decisions governments make, without much of the pointless “fluff” in media releases.…
Economic impacts of auto-dependency
I’m reading a really interesting book at the moment, The Option of Urbanism: Investing in a New American Dream by Christopher B. Leinberger. It’s a good book because it takes a historical look at the shift in the mid 20th century away from what’s termed “Walkable Urbanism” and towards a “Drivable Suburbanism” as the main form of building cities and transportation systems and then starts considering more recent urban trends – suggesting a shift back towards walkable urbanism as the economics and environmental effects of drivable suburbanism start to no longer make sense.…
The transport plan that changed Auckland
The post I put together the other day about Auckland’s transport history generated a lot of response and discussion – so I thought I would follow things up by doing a bit more research. A most useful outcome of that is to get hold of the 1955 Master Transportation Plan for Auckland.…
What to think of Nikki Kaye’s tram idea
When I first heard about Auckland Central MP Nikki Kaye’s proposal to create something of a tram loop around the neighbourhoods of the western part of her Auckland Central electorate, I wasn’t really quite sure what to make of it. Of course I’m not averse to the idea that trams probably do form part of Auckland’s transport future along particular corridors, but at the same time I was also skeptical.…
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