Wynyard Tramway extended to Britomart within three years
It’s heartening to read in today’s NZ Herald that plans are advancing quite quickly to extend the Wynyard Tramway loop over the Viaduct Harbour and to connect with Britomart transport centre in the relatively near future.
Waterfront Auckland planning and design manager Rod Marler said the carnation-red heritage trams were a great short-term attraction for capturing the imagination and emotions of Aucklanders but the tram tracks, future-proofed to take light rail, offered a bigger opportunity along the waterfront.…
25 Comments Guest Post: Why are there cars on Queen St?
This is a Guest Post by regular commenter Patrick Reynolds and was originally published in Metro magazine
Queen St, from the water to Mayoral Drive, has an unusual and unexpected feature for a city street in Auckland. It’s easy to miss but it’s true: There is not one vehicle entrance to a building from Queen St.…
More detail about the City Centre Master Plan
I’ve discussed the City Centre Master Plan a few times on this blog previously, as it’s a pretty exciting document which seeks to transform Auckland’s City Centre from the car dominated place it is now to a truly world-class downtown, dominated by people rather than vehicles.…
High Density Sprawl – not an oxymoron?
The most commonly cited characteristic of urban sprawl is its low-density. In fact, density is often used as the sole way of determining whether a city is sprawled or not – and (following on from that) whether a city’s urban form is conducive to public transport or not.…
Tracking Auckland’s buses
An excellent new blog about public transport issues in Auckland has been started up by Suresh Patel. One of the most fascinating elements of the new blog is that it allows us a bit of an insight into some of the inner workings of Auckland’s public transport system, because Suresh is undertaking a Teacher Fellowship scheme, looking into the effectiveness of new technologies used by Auckland’s public transport systems.…
Overloading Albert Street
One consequence of the recent bus route changes has been to shift even more bus routes onto Albert Street – as the 020, 030 and Inner Link have been shifted off Queen Street, while the 005 has been shifted off Hobson Street and Queen Street.…
Our street network working against us
The City Rail Link (CRL) is a vital project for the city however as we know the government commissioned review has rejected the business case for it. While many of us know that the review has many flaws, some of the recommendations made about how to improve the BC for it are sensible, in particular the need to get more people using the existing rail network.…
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Elliott Street shared space opens
I wandered through the Elliott Street shared space today, a couple of hours after its official opening. It was really impressive: While the place was obviously busier than normal, due to it being the opening day, I started feeling a bit regretful that Elliott Street is a shared space rather than being fully pedestrianised – as it works so utterly amazingly when closed off to cars.…
Northern Busway still under threat
A couple of weeks ago I asked why North Shore politicians seemed to hate buses so much, after a Transport Committee meeting where bus lanes came under attack from Councillor George Wood, as well as the chairs of the two local boards.…
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