Density and Public Transport
Arguments about density and public transport usage are notorious. Paul Mees dedicated an unfortunately large amount of his most recent book, Transport in Suburbia, to a rather implausible argument that there is little relationship between density and public transport usage – although in the process making a pretty helpful argument that service quality is also extremely important.…
6 Comments Train Ticketing changes tomorrow
Tomorrow is going to be a pretty historic day for the rail network, for probably the first time ever there will be a change to how ticketing is done for trains in Auckland. In anticipation of the roll out of integrated ticketing in at the end of October, on-board ticket sales are being phased out so that regular users can start to get used to to buying their tickets before getting on the train. …
Council chickening out on parking reform?
Over the last few months, this blog has discussed parking policy a few times, with the general consensus being that it’s extremely important for us to get rid of minimum parking requirements – as they act as both a huge subsidy for driving and also as a huge barrier to land-use intensification.…
Transport – It’s the Economy, Stupid
I came across a well crafted piece about the Government’s transport policies on Scoop, by Dr Glen Koorey (presumably the same person who comments here occasionally as “Glen K”) a senior lecturer in transportation at the University of Canterbury’s College of Engineering.…
A tale of two busways
After being potentially disappointed yesterday, there was some good news for the Northern Busway. A new station for the busway at Silverdale has now cleared the environment court so can go ahead. Here’s the press release from Auckland Transport
In good news for commuters on the Hibiscus Coast, the long-awaited Busway Station at Silverdale has been given the go-ahead.…
Learning from Munich
Another of the cities I stopped off at on my holiday was Munich and I was surprised by just how much I really enjoyed it (and not just from all of the beer and pretzels at the beer gardens :-)). We had a great time looking around the city including spending way too much time, but also no where near enough in the Deutsches Museum (my wife really regretted suggesting we go there).…
Sometimes I am baffled by AT’s stupidity
I felt my blood begin to boil when reading yesterday’s “Ask Phoebe” on the rollout of the AT HOP card:
The Herald last week reported that old Hop cards may be exchanged free of charge for new ones. The Maxx website says new Hop cards for the trains are $10 each.…
AMETI busway up for the chop?
One of the most positive transport stories in Auckland over the last number of years has been the changes that have occurred to the AMETI project. The project was originally conceived following the demise of the eastern motorway proposal. It was intended to instead make improvements to the local roading network and for some time remained extremely roads focused.…
Design for People: Link and Place
Peter M lobbed up a juicy post a few weeks back asking “Why the Pedestrian Angst?,” and suggested some very reasonable ways to improve the design of Auckland’s streets. My simple answer to the rhetorical question is that there is a huge disconnect between how the city talks about being “liveable” as documented here and here and what people experience on a day-to-day basis.…
Cycling for Google Maps in Auckland
I like the Google Maps direction tools – in fact I find them about a million times more useful than the official MAXX website when it comes to public transport (not like that’s hard though!) So I was pretty excited to hear that a cycling option has been added for Auckland.…
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