A Visit to New Lynn
Growing up out west I used to pass through New Lynn on a fairly regular basis and up until a few years ago the place was pretty run down. That all started to change a few years ago when the rail line was placed into a trench and the fantastic new station and bus interchange was built.…
10 Comments Bus strike cancelled
Great news:
Strike averted as NZ Bus and Unions reach agreement
NZ Bus, the Tramways Union and First Union are very pleased to announce that following a last ditch meeting this morning they have reached a proposed settlement for the Collective Employment Agreement covering bus drivers and service staff in Auckland.…
PARK(ing) Day
If you were about the City Centre today you might have seen a little street reclaiming going on around the place. In a couple of places little groups of people were sitting out in the streets enjoying the sunshine, a privilege that is normally reserved for empty cars.…
Monday’s bus strike – PT alternatives
So unless there’s a miraculous fix to the ongoing labour dispute between NZ Bus and its drivers, it seems as though all NZ Bus services will not run this coming Monday and every subsequent Monday for the next eight weeks. That means no buses at all – including school buses – if your service is operated by any of the following: Metrolink
GoWest
Waka Pacific
North Star
Link (City, Inner or Outer) All up NZ Bus services account for just over half of all public transport journeys in Auckland, which I guess gives us the opportunity to look at things from a “glass half full” approach and note that half of Auckland’s public transport will still be running.…
Mapping out Cities
It is always interesting comparing one place to another so that’s why I was really interested when I saw the image below. It has been created by Spotila on the Skyscrapercity Forums and shows the size of Auckland compared to Hamilton, Tauranga, Napier/Hastings and Sydney.…
LTMA Bill debated in parliament
Major amendments to the Land Transport Management Act – the primary piece of legislation that governs the management and funding of transport in New Zealand – have been introduced to parliament. There was a bit of discussion of the changes last year when they were first announced, as well as further discussion of changes to borrowing policy more recently, but we will watch the issue closely over the next few months as the bill winds its way through the process – to highlight areas where it really needs to change and why.…
AT Confirms City Centre Parking Changes
A few months ago Auckland Transport started consultation on changes to how on-street parking works in the Central City. While there were a number of things to the proposal the key one was that on-street would be targeted towards shorter stays by ramping up the price the longer you stay.…
September AT Board Reports
The AT board meet today and apart from the EMU update there are a number of other things that caught my attention. First of all the things from the Business Report:
Work is still going on to finalise the new rail timetable which will come into effect on 14 October.…
The New Bus Network: a step change for Auckland
Auckland Transport’s board papers highlight that the high level principles of the new bus network will be consulted upon in the Regional Public Transpor Plan: which will be open for public submission in the next month or two. The huge number of comments on Matt’s previous post about the network highlights that this will be a very interesting process.…
Bus Strikes back on
Now this is just getting silly. Last week the bus drivers unions agreed to a deal with NZ Bus which saw their planned strikes called off but interestingly the bus drivers who met today decided to reject that offer. I don’t know what they are now demanding but it is very odd for the union leaders themselves to agree to a deal and recommend it but then have the members turn it down.…
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