Possible October rail timetable changes
Over at the Campaign for Better Transport forum, “kaiwhara” has noted a few things that could end up becoming part of a new train timetable from October onwards: No ADL’s on weekdays will go south of Manukau.
Of the 5 sets that run peak time Manukau services, 2 are 4 car sets, one being an ADK, the other a pair of ADL’s.…
16 Comments ATB film night fast approaching
There’s only 2 days left until the inaugural Auckland Transport Blog film night and as of today there’s only 6 tickets still available. So if you want to come along to what is sure to be a transport fiesta of epic proportions then you had better make like Usain Bolt and get buying (NB: You can buy tickets online here).…
Wellington Street onramp to reopen
NZTA have released their decision to reopen the Wellington Street onramp:
The NZTA is planning to re-open the on-ramp to all traffic in about six weeks after the completion of necessary work – including the installation of ramp signals and final pavement works – to ensure it is safe to use.…
Guest Post: RoNS questioned again
This is a Guest Post by “Mr Anderson”
An article in Stuff today questions the Roads of National Significance programme and its economic benefits:
The Government’s $12 billion roads of national significance programme is upgrading routes used by as little as four per cent of the country’s traffic.…
Guest Post: The new Mt Albert station
This is a Guest Post by “Mr Anderson” who will be keeping us up to date with transport news stories while Matt L and Peter M are away on holiday.
Auckland Transport have released some plans for the significant rebuild of the Mt Albert train station.…
Guest Post: Wellington Public Transport Fare System Review
This is a Guest Post by reader and commenter Louis Mayo:
Hello everyone. This is the first of my promised guest posts and I thought I’d cover this issue outside of Auckland, as the other writers do a fantastic job of this already.…
Why my favourite colour is orange … but I have mixed emotions about Albany
My last post compared a roundabout in the Netherlands to a similar roundabout in Auckland. I noted how relatively simple design choices in the Netherlands seemed to have a relatively large impact (in my opinion) on pedestrian amenity, with minimal impacts on drivers.…
Off to Vancouver
As I mentioned a while back, this weekend I’m off on a holiday to Vancouver for a couple of weeks. I have a bit of an affinity for Vancouver – particularly its transport system and the way it has developed over the past few decades.…
The difference that street width makes
I stumbled (via Price Tags) across a really fantastic site earlier today which really highlights the difference that street width makes to the feel of a place – taking a number of streets in Los Angeles and manipulating the image to reduce the street width.…
How should Auckland sprawl?
Under a lot of pressure it seems, Auckland Council made the decision that the Auckland Plan would provide for quite a lot of urban sprawl. Around 170,000 dwellings of it over 30 years. Big chunks of land in the south, northwest and north were identified by “red boxes” as being places where investigation would need to take place in order to determine where this development goes.…
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