The Redesigned Bus Network
At the transport committee the other day we leant about our sexy new trains but that wasn’t the only interesting presentation that was given. Auckland transport gave an update on what is happening to improve buses across the region including a sneak peak of what the future network could look like.…
37 Comments Karangahape Road Station
This post is the second in my series on the stations of the City Rail Link project, having looked at Aotea in this previous post. My next post will look at Newton Station, while Nick is planning a post to look at how we might operate trains running through the CRL – both on opening day and also in the longer term when we further extend the rail network.…
Traffic Volumes in Parliament
Stu has recently been raising the issue that traffic levels have been flat and even decreasing over a number of years and yesterday the Greens spokesperson, Julie Anne Genter raised the issue during question time in parliament. Here is the video of the exchange: You can get a transcript of it here
What this really confirms (as if we didn’t know it already) is that the government is really running with a build it and hope strategy which to me definitely isn’t what we should be doing when the costs are in the billions.\…
EMU Update – with new pictures
An update to the progress of the EMUs was given to the transport committee yesterday and it provides quite a few new pictures of what we will eventually get (although the final colours are still to be decided. Just to give a quick recap the contract with Spanish company Construcciones y Auxiliar de Ferrocarriles (CAF) was signed in October last year for 57 EMUs along with a 12 year maintenance contract for them.…
Rethinking the automobile – video
This is an excellent, if rather lengthy, video by Streetfilms about the impact of automobiles on our cities: A description:
For more than 100 years New York City government policy has prioritized the needs of the automobile over the needs of any other mode of transport.…
PTOM – a step in the right or wrong direction?
Last Friday saw what seemed like a belated announcement – that the Public Transport Operating Model (PTOM) had acquired all its necessary approvals and will be implemented in the relatively near future. PTOM is the system under which bus and ferry services will be contracted by regional councils (or Auckland Transport).…
Finding Auckland’s pulse
A couple of days ago I lent an ear to a conversation between fellow bloggers Patrick Reynolds and Matt L over the fate of train service patterns around Newmarket station. They were particularly concerned with the best way to run a service so that people can travel easily between the west, the city and the south… in any direction.…
Aotea Station
This post is the first of three that will focus on the proposed stations that are to be constructed as part of the City Rail Link project: Aotea Station, K Road Station and Newton Station.
Aotea Station is, without doubt, the most important station that the City Rail Link creates – located in the very heart of midtown Auckland.…
14 year-old newsflash: Kiwi economy waves good-bye to state highways
In my last post I suggested NZ is at a transport cross-roads: Evidence shows people are driving less and that they have been doing so for some time. Along the way I could not help but poke fun at the NZTA and MoT for resolutely sticking to the line that “traffic volumes are growing”, when they quite clearly are not and have not been for sometime (either in NZ or overseas).…
Transport discussion 1 and 2 years ago
We often are looking at what is coming up or what we could do differently so with March now over I thought it might be interesting to take a look back in history and see what we were talking about in the same month a year or two ago.…
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