Improving Auckland’s bus priority measures
Tomorrow I’m giving a presentation to the Auckland Council Transport Committee, on behalf of the Campaign for Better Transport, about bus priority measures in Auckland – why they’re necessary and where priorities to improve them should be. The presentation is somewhat in response to a lot of opposition to bus lanes that emerged at the last transport committee meeting – particularly from some of the North Shore Local Boards, as well as Councillor George Wood and (perhaps most determinedly) the Orakei Local Board.…
15 Comments Auckland’s PT: expensive and poorly used
An Auckland Council report on various aspects of our transport system makes a number of comparisons of Auckland’s public transport system with various cities in Australia, Canada and the USA – as well as Wellington. The cities used to compare Auckland against, including their population and what different technologies their PT system includes, is shown in the table below: These are a good range of cities to compare Auckland’s performance against, in my opinion.…
How did cars come to monopolise our streets?
You only need to look at this fantastic video of San Francisco’s streets in the very first years of the 20th century to get an understanding that the concept of shared streets, which Auckland seems to be embracing at the moment, is hardly a new one.…
Monitoring Auckland’s PT system
There’s a really interesting report in the agenda (from page 43 onwards) for Tuesday’s transport committee meeting that shows the results from a number of transport monitoring projects which have taken place around Auckland over the past few months. All together, they provide an interesting insight into changing transport trends.…
Auckland to get 57 EMU trains
The details of the electric trains deal, which was announced today, were somewhat similar to what I had expected – which is some great news for Auckland. The NZ Herald has the key details:
Auckland will gain ownership of 57 new electric trains in return for taking responsibility for repaying a $500 million Government loan over 35 years.…
Electrification details to be announced today
While we will have to wait until the end of September to find out which company has won the tender to build Auckland’s electric trains, it is my understanding that an announcement will be made at Auckland Transport later today on a few of the details about those trains.…
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