NW Cycleway to be extended
There were quite a few interesting little transport news stories today that are worth covering off. The first one is that one of long promised projects is about to be delivered. The NZTA and Auckland Transport have been working with Cycling Action Auckland on extending the extremely popular NW cycleway through the CMJ and all the way to Beach Rd.…
17 Comments How Effective Transport Planning Has Transformed London – Videos
On Tuesday night Patrick, myself and a number of readers attended the Auckland Conversations event about transport. The guest speaker was Daniel Moylan who was the deputy chair of Transport for London (TfL) and he was talking about how effective transport has transformed London, he was a great speaker and it was a really interesting talk.…
Futurissimo! The New City Street
All over the globe the shape of cities are reformatting as patterns of life within them shift. In a complex interlinked way new technologies, resource constraints, and new cultural values are causing a big change away from late twentieth century certainties of city life.…
Is it time to kill off MAXX?
Getting on the train the other night I and many others were presented with a survey asking for my thoughts on a number of different aspects of the train service and PT in general. This isn’t the first time I have done one of these and the majority of questions were pretty straight forward covering a number of different topics with things like how clean I thought the train, the friendliness of staff, train performance etc.…
Auckland Plan Launched
The final version of the Auckland Plan was launched by Mayor Len Brown today. Here’s the Mayor’s message that accompanies the launch:
For the first time in our history, we have a widely-shared vision – to be the world’s most liveable city – and a single plan to deliver this vision for all of Auckland and its people.…
Analysing Auckland’s car dependency
My post the other day about the importance of public transport in reducing car dependency’s financial cost, generated a lot of interesting discussion. There was a bit of debate over whether New Zealand mirrored the USA’s split in household expenditure (it seems we spend a bit less of our incomes on transport), but what there was general agreement on is how car dependency might vary from place to place – particularly across different parts of Auckland.…
NZTA’s updates on Integrated Ticketing
If there is one issue we have noticed gets people more wound up than anything else on this site it is Integrated Ticketing and understandingly so. The CRL, Electrification and other projects are great but for most day to day users but the one thing that directly effects every single PT user (or potential user) is the ticketing and fares system.…
Why Now Westfield?
An interesting article appeared prominently in the Herald’s business section this morning. Here’s what part of it said:
Ownership of many properties, including Auckland’s largest inner-city mall, could change as plans for Auckland’s underground rail loop edge closer.
The central city line could pass directly beneath the large multi-level Westfield Downtown on reclaimed land spanning Albert St, Customs St West and Queen Elizabeth II Square.…
A City Rail Link Page
A number of times over the past few weeks we have criticised both Auckland Council and Auckland Transport for the poor job they’re doing when it comes to selling the benefits of the City Rail Link project, with a result of that being a sometimes pathetically poor understanding of the project’s benefits, what it actually costs, what it will do, what it won’t do, why an overhead option is a silly idea and so on.…
Junkspace: Rem, Lee, and Me
We know that by choosing to rely on the private vehicle as the primary means of movement in a city we are choosing the single most expensive way for us all to get around. It makes for a largely unseen but nonetheless real additional tax on everything, especially through inefficient land use.…
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