7 year-old newsflash: Kiwis driving less and loving it; MoT/NZTA curse freedom of choice
Hindsight may show that the transport sector is in the midst of unprecedented change.
NZTA’s latest report on state highway traffic shows that volumes were down 1.2% in 2011. And if you look further back you can see that total vehicle volumes on the state highway network have been static since around 2004. …
66 Comments Final draft of the Auckland Plan
Tomorrow could be quite an important day for the city. Up before the councils governing body is the final version of the 30 year Auckland plan and while it isn’t a done deal, we hopefully won’t see to many changes. You can read the final draft here and it starts about half way down in Chapter 13.…
Spot the Change
On my home tonight I noticed these new signs around the posts at Britomart, can you spot the new addition? I do like the use of the pillars to display these maps and combined with the recent improvements to how destinations are shown it should hopefully make things much easier for people unfamiliar with the system.…
And the transport prize goes to …
This is the first of what I hope will be a series of short posts on good/bad transport behaviour. The idea is that by “naming” people/companies that deliver good transport outcomes, and “shaming” those that perform poorly, we can create a semblance of public pressure for businesses to pull up their transport socks.…
Fairer and Smarter Fares
In public transport circles there is always going to be a lot of debate over the levels of fares. Should they be higher to reduce the amount of subsidy required? Should they be lower to encourage greater ridership and/or for social equity reasons?…
Land Hungry Cars
Seems like the best way to become a regular blogger on this site is to continually bombard the authors with Guest Posts – I’m excited about joining the team!
One of the fundamental geometric advantages of public transport is that it uses less space to shift a certain number of people, than your typical car does.…
Measuring PT Performance Better
After yesterdays post on bus performance this comment from Peter got me thinking.
One thing that’s always annoyed me about reliability and punctuality statistics is that they generally don’t account for varying passenger loads throughout the day. For example, if the 10.30pm train runs 10 minutes late then not too many people are affected.…
The laughable bus reliability statistics
There was something in last Thursday’s NZ Herald article about the punctuality and reliability of public transport in Auckland that really stood out like a sore thumb:
But buses stuck to their timetables – or were at least no more than five minutes late – in 99.24 per cent of cases last month and ferries were even more punctual, hitting the mark in 99.73 per cent of cases.…
Guest Post: Los Angeles – but not as we know it
This is a Guest Post by Peter and continues his series on overseas cities.
Los Angeles is a poster child for automobile dependent sprawl – a moniker that is somewhat justified, even if it also happens to be one of the denser American cities (if you use the rather dodgy measurement of average density).…
Guest Post: Feeder buses in Toronto
This post is by Peter, and follows on from his previous post about feeder buses.
Toronto is the biggest city in Canada, and is an interesting case-study because – for such a large city – it has a relatively small ‘rapid transit network’.…
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