And the transport prize goes to …
Last time I awarded transport prizes I dropped the blog equivalent of a clusterbomb by simply suggesting that an intersection was unsafe for pedestrians – no way! Yes way. By the time everyone’s battered little digits had stopped thumping our keyboards, 129 comments had been posted and a number of egos has been bruised.…
59 Comments Analysing Vancouver’s bus network
The comments thread on my previous post about Vancouver got into a bit of discussion about the quality of the city’s bus network. I thought I’d dig into that a bit deeper, as while the Skytrain is the “show-pony” of the transit network here, it’s really the buses which still do the donkey work of the system.…
Hobsonville and Beach Haven ferry service coming
Two ferry announcements today – one in relation to Hobsonville and one in relation to Beach Haven. Both of these are linked as I think the same boat will end up serving both wharves (as they’re so close to each other).…
Snapper/HOP fiasco continues
Some interesting developments today in the ongoing fiasco, with Auckland Transport now apparently denying they’ve kicked Snapper out of negotiations to provide the bus solution on NZ Bus services. Here’s the latest report:
Auckland Transport is denying speculation that Snapper been dumped from a project to unite the city’s public transport infrastructure under a single electronic billing system.…
Guest Post: Is it time to dust off Wellington’s 2004 Gehl Report?
This is a Gust Post by regular commenter Matthew Thredgold (“handlebars Matt”). It originally appears on his blog here and has been reproduced with his kind permission.
Is it time to dust off for a reread the Danish firm, Gehl Architects’ 2004 Report for Wellington’s City to Waterfront Study?…
CRL Video
Auckland Transport released this video on the City Rail Link today: I think it’s pretty good actually. A few more detailed numbers around its benefits might have been advantageous, but obviously it needs to be kept relatively simple and I think it achieves that task pretty well.…
Snapper Off the Menu?
Brian Rudman writes in today’s Herald that
Auckland Transport board members gather in secret today to finalise a divorce settlement with smart card operator Snapper Services, and hopefully come up with a rescue plan for the stalled $98 million integrated ticketing project.…
Enrique Peñalosa
For those that didn’t make it to our film night or haven’t seen Gary Huswit’s Urbanized here is a little more on what was, for me, one of the highlights of the film. Dr Enrique Peñalosa. The implausibly suave ex-Mayor of Bogota.…
“The Road Ahead” – Cross-party discussion on NZ’s transport future
After the sell-out, runaway success of the first Auckland Transport Blog fundraiser earlier this week (post with photos coming soon apparently) I’m pleased to notify you all of the next event in the transport calendar. The only problem, as far as I’m can tell, is that it’s in Wellington, which also means that by extension it’s not being organised by the unflappable, indomitable Kent Lundberg.…
An “Insight” into the RoNS package
A fairly lengthy and detailed documentary on the Roads of National Significance projects was aired on Radio NZ this morning. You can listen to the 27 minute long documentary here.
Quite a few comments in this previous thread relate to the documentary – and raise some important points I think: Most of the non-political commentators (NZCID, AA, Road Transport Forum etc.)…
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