The complexity of density
You would think that calculating, and analysing, the density of a city would be a fairly perfunctory mathematical task, and would tell us useful information about the nature of that city. As I noted in this previous blog post, perhaps the most challenging aspect of calculating a city’s ‘average density’ is working out where its boundaries are.…
16 Comments Guest Post: The Christchurch Bus Exchange
This is a Guest Post by William Stewart
When I first moved to Christchurch after leaving Auckland in 2004, I was amazed by what was then to me, the best execution of public transport I had ever seen. The biggest barriers to me in using public transport have always been ease of use, comfort and affordability.…
How do we change attitudes to parking?
This post is a little different in that I don’t have a solution to the problem so am throwing it out to the readers to get their thoughts.
In the last few days there has been a bit of a stoush played out on the front of the NZ Herald between a man that was towed and the towing company.…
The intensification, sprawl and housing affordability debate rages on
The release of the Studio D4/Jasmax report on the Auckland Plan the other day really did throw the ‘cat amongst the pigeons’, as the saying goes – particularly in terms of highlighting the question of what level of change to existing urban areas would need to be made to reach target levels of intensification.…
NZTA warns of Carmageddon …. again
There are some pretty significant works happening this weekend on a number of transport projects around the region so if you are around the region it would be good to try and not get caught up in them.
First up we have the NZTA closing the motorway’s northbound lanes between Market Rd and Gillies Ave to enable them to move move the lanes onto the newly replaced Newmaket Viaduct.…
Blog Statistics
With only a few days to go of my contribution to this blog, I thought I’d have a look back at some of the statistics of this blog. A few of them can be seen down the left-hand side of this page – as I write we have: 1,688 posts
1,266,909 words in those posts
26,198 comments
2,249,494 words in those comments But some statistics can only really be seen behind the scenes, so for your curiosity here are a few: 1,198,579 all time views
3,771 views on the blog’s busiest day ever – which was May 31st last year (the day the review of the City Rail Link business case was released)
Aside from the main page, the most visited post ever is this one on the world’s best rail systems (generally because it is a high result when searching for maps of Tokyo’s rail network).…
Peaking
I’m not going to repeat the excellent Guest Post review of the book Human Transit – other than to note from what I’ve read of the book so far I agree with pretty much everything in the review. It is a very good book.…
Guest Post: Review – Human Transit
This is a Guest Post by Matt. (Yes a lot of Matts comment on this blog, this is by “handlebars Matt”).
Human Transit is Jarrett Walker’s blog, which he calls the professional blog of a public transit planning consultant. Human Transit – How Clearer Thinking about Public Transit Can Enrich Our Communities and Our Lives is his book distilling his blog, and the essence of his philosophy of public transport planning.…
The Westgate Pedestrian and Cycle Bridge
This news seemed to slip through in December unnoticed. Auckland Transport and the NZTA are planning on building a bridge over SH16 near Westgate to help improve accessibility and safety. As it is at the moment there are very limited options for people in the area to get to the Westgate shopping area other than driving due to the motorway cutting between the two areas (and Hobsonville Rd over the motorway isn’t the most friendly place to be walking).…
Reducing some of the Environmental Impact of Motorways
Roads are dirty places, they pick up all sorts of contaminants as part of regular use, things like oils, zinc, chromium and copper as well as the residue of tires and brakes. When it rains these materials wash off then wash off the road and can pollute local waterways.…
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