Silverdale Park & Ride
A few days ago we reported that Auckland Transport was about to spend $5.5m to add another 550 car parks to the Albany busway station. Today the NZ Herald is reporting that AT could have an additional 104 car parks open this year at a proposed new Silverdale busway station with a second stage increasing the number of car parks to 500.…
29 Comments A Southern Link?
This will be my last blog post about bus route changes, as the blog transitions towards being run by Matt, Stuart, Patrick, Nick and whoever appears out of the woodwork in the future. I still have a few more posts to write over the next week, but they will focus on other matters – including a look back at my involvement in this blog.…
Guest Post: Integrated ticketing – part 2
This is a Guest Post by Louis Mayo and follows on from this previous post.
My previous post proposed a system which streamlined all the different fare products into a 2 hour and Daily pass with options over three zones. In addition to the cash fare system that I described in my previous post, there would also be a smart card system as well.…
Travel to the BDO
So your going to the last ever Big Day Out and you want to get there, here’s how http://www.maxx.co.nz/info/events/big-day-out.aspx AT has this to say about it:
Music fans going to the Big Day Out at Mt Smart on Friday are advised to plan their travel and check out transport options to the stadium.…
Parnell Track Work Completed
The rail network fully reopens tomorrow following the longest shutdown that I am aware of (yes I am aware that trains have been operating on some sections for a few weeks now). The bit that needed the most time was between Britomart and Newmarket where the tracks needed to be lowered quite a bit to enable a flatter section to be built for the new Parnell station.…
Why does it have to be so Hard?
This post is a little bit of a rant but it is also but is also to highlight how we often don’t seem to be able to get even the most simple things right.
The story starts years ago with what could best be described as growing pains, project DART was in full swing with the western line was busy being duplicated.…
How parking shapes urban form
I noted a few posts back that I’m reading the book “Edge Cities: life on the new frontier” by Joel Garreau, at the moment. The book is broken up into chapters that focus on a particular place, although within each chapter is a wide variety of information about how edge cities function, why they exist and details on particular examples of them.…
Future Auckland Density: ‘Say no to bad design’
There was a report in the Herald today of Councillor Dick Quax’s ‘gobsmacked’ and ‘horrified’ reaction to a recent study on possible models of intensification in Auckland [by Patrick Fontein of Studio D4 and Tim Robinson and Alistair Ray of Jasmax].…
“Swap your HOP” confirmed
An article in today’s NZ Herald confirms that HOP cards will need to be changed over later this year to the new Thales system, enabling them to work on all buses, trains and ferries.
Auckland’s “integrated” public transport cards, introduced in May with a $1 million marketing budget from the public purse, will have to be replaced because they are not compatible with a new system for trains, ferries and some bus companies.…
Shifting transport beyond partisan debates
While I have often complained about transport not being in the top of people’s minds when voting in nationwide elections, yet so many decisions are made by central government – the flip side of this (and unfortunately it seems that we do get the worst of both worlds) is seeing the transport debate becoming more and more partisan.…
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