Fort St Shared Space a Success
A report to the Waitamata local board shows that the shared space on Fort St has been a success and approval has been given to carry on with stage three of the upgrade which will introduce another share space at the eastern end of the street. …
28 Comments Local roads getting screwed over
NZTA is funded from petrol tax and road user charges, which obviously comes from cars, trucks, vans and buses using fuel (or travelling kilometres) along our roading network. The theory is that this creates a relatively ‘user pays’ situation, with money raised from road users being spent on projects that benefit road users (including public transport, walking and cycling, which obviously reduce the number of cars that would otherwise be on the road).…
RLTP Submission, A Bouquet and a Brickbat
One of the recent plans that people have been able to submit on is the Regional Land Transport Planwhich is put out by Auckland Transport. They have published a the minutes of the hearings that were held, naturally there were a wide variety of submissions that cover all sorts of topics but I thought I would just post a couple that I found really interesting from different ends of the spectrum.…
Time to make the Wynyard tram useful
There’s an article in yesterday’s NZ Herald which notes ridership on the Wynyard Quarter tramway has, unsurprisingly in my opinion, dropped away quite a lot in the past few months.
Figures given to Auckland Council member Cameron Brewer show the two heritage electric trams carried fewer than 20 per cent of forecast passengers over their 1.5km circuit in March, when patronage slumped to 1933 people.…
EMU Interior Video
It’s taken a while but AT has finally got around to posting the video that shows what the interior of the new EMUs will look like. They say the colours are still a work in progress so don’t get to caught up about them just yet.…
What does the City Rail Link actually cost?
The City Rail Link is, undoubtedly, Auckland’s most important transport project – with this fact being highlighted in the Auckland Plan, which places the project as Auckland’s top priority. However, it is also a very expensive project – but just how expensive?…
Contract for EMU depot signed
Good to see some further progress on the electrification project today, with the contract for the depot where the electric trains will be maintained and housed, being signed:
Auckland Transport has awarded the $40 million contract for the construction of the Wiri Maintenance and Stabling Depot for Auckland’s new electric train fleet to Downer New Zealand Limited (Downer).…
People travelling less in the UK too
The slowdown in traffic growth seen both in New Zealand and the USA is also occurring in the UK, as detailed in a recent Economist article.
Car and van mileage has fallen over the past four years, mainly because of the economic slump.…
North Shore Rail for $2.5b?
An interesting report goes to the transport committee on Wednesday which looks at how the land use plans on the North Shore as identified in the Auckland Plan would be impacted by various options for improving rapid transit (RT) in the area.…
Tokyo timelapse video
Another awesome time-lapse video – this time of Tokyo, Japan (worth watching in full screen). I find the huge volume of pedestrians particularly fascinating to watch when sped up – a simply massive wave of humanity. Tokyo is an interesting case study about just how big a city can get while still functioning pretty effectively.…
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