An example of why we need good PT
Auckland Transport put out quite a weird press release late last week, highlighting that the point of their $14 million carpark at Manukau City is to “free up land”.
A new multi-storey car park building about to be built in Manukau will provide 680 parking spaces and free up valuable land in the city centre for future development.…
8 Comments Improving buses in Auckland’s city centre
It is becoming increasingly obvious to me that as the number of public transport users increases in Auckland there’s a growing need to sort out how we handle buses in the CBD. The Auckland city centre contains approximately 81,000 employees, 21,000 residents and 50,000 students.…
Outlining why Puhoi-Wellsford is a stupid project
It was good to read in yesterday’s NZ Herald that the Labour Party has committed to cancelling the Puhoi-Wellsford “holiday highway” if they’re elected at the end of the year. While the polls indicate that the chances of Labour actually being elected are reasonably remote, if we assume that they retain this policy into the future, the long timeframes for actually planning, consenting and eventually constructing Puhoi-Wellsford should mean that the project never goes ahead in its current form, as eventually Labour will become the government again.…
Solid Patronage Growth for April
Auckland Transport has (finally) uploaded the public transport patronage report for April 2011. The results are pretty solid, if not quite as spectacular as March’s patronage. Here are the highlights:
The headline figures above are pretty much bang on what would have been expected.…
CBD Tunnel Review released soon?
The answer to an OIA request I made to the Ministry of Transport about – among other things – the work they’d done in relation to the CBD Rail Tunnel (largely their contribution to its review) suggest that the release of this review document is possibly not too far away.…
Complete streets
This is a fantastic video from Streetfilms on New York City and their approach to remaking streets as “complete streets” over the past few years. The key with complete streets is providing mobility and accessibility for all types of transport: pedestrians, cyclists, public transport and cars – instead of cars and pretty much nothing else.…
Guest Post: Why does Labour ignore transport so badly?
This is another Guest Post by occasional blog commenter Peter
There was a lot of response and reaction to my blog post earlier this week, which criticised most political parties for either their transport policy or their general image. I ruffled a few feathers and had a few good debates in the comments.…
Auckland Transport’s take on the GPS
My opinions of the draft Government Policy Statement for transport funding were articulated in this recent post. Papers from Auckland Transport’s May board meeting outline the issues of concern to them in the document. Helpfully, Auckland Transport provide some useful tables that more clearly highlight areas of funding that are proposed to increase and decrease over the next 10 years.…
Tactics for the second HOP changeover
At the moment we’re going through a rather challenging process of changing over from Go Rider cards to HOP cards on all NZ Bus services. North Star buses swapped over a couple of weeks back, Go West and Waka Pacific will change over this coming weekend, while Metrolink and Link Buses will make the swap in a couple of weeks time.…
Transport in the Budget
In what is otherwise a fairly dark budget, it seems that transport – even rail – has got off reasonably lightly. Of course unsurprisingly there’s nothing in the budget about the CBD Rail Tunnel: the government’s review of that project seems to have gone on the back-burner – and the Ministry of Transport is even refusing to release to me any information on the work they’ve done in relation to the project so far this year.…
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