Dealing with cheating drivers
A few months ago, Campbell Live ran a story about drivers that use dodgy and illegal tactics to jump traffic queues. They looked at drivers using Tristram Ave to access the Northern Motorway. The response from that piece has obviously been fairly strong as yesterday they ran another story looking at a few other locations.…
30 Comments Why I want intensification in my neighbourhood
While many communities are fighting against the idea of intensification of their areas, I’m doing the opposite as I want my area to intensify. I don’t fear the change and perhaps more importantly can see the benefits it can bring. Part of this post is a based off one I wrote about 6 months ago but with the current debate going on, I thought it might be worth revisiting once again.…
Changes to the draft RPTP
In October last year, Auckland Transport released the draft version of the new Regional Public Transport Plan and it was nothing short of revolutionary. For the first time in who knows how many decades, the decision was made to finally tackle one of the biggest issues with the public transport system, our mess of a bus network.…
Auckland Transport releases 6 month report
AT have released their 6 monthly report to 31 December 2012 and it highlights just how biased our transport spending is, even in a city where the majority of our elected officials are supposedly PT friendly. Here is their press release about the report:
Auckland Transport has today released its half year report for the six months to 31 December 2012.…
Why does NZ not support Travel Plans?
This is a guest post from Adam W
There is a very effective important tool for getting people out of their cars and onto public transport, on a bike or walking which just does not seem to get a mention here in New Zealand; and that is Organisational Travel Plans.…
Campbell Live on the HOP system
On Tuesday night, Campbell Live took a look at the AT HOP card as it stands so far. Click to go through and watch the video. To me the issues of fare evasion are the most serious and many of the comments made reflect my own observations.…
March 2013 Patronage
Patronage stats for March are out and as usual, are interesting reading. Once again only ferry patronage was up on March last year however AT have finally taken on board a suggestion I have made in the past and reported what is happening with weekday patronage (more on this later in the post).…
Council releases 3D models of Town Centres
For some reason, many of those that oppose the Unitary Plan seem to think that once it has been adopted, that overnight massive multi-story buildings are going to start going up all over the city. This is scaremongering, plain and simple.…
The cost of parking in the CBD
We all know that parking in the CBD is expensive, but just how expensive. Well I thought I would not only find out, but map it and here are the results. I have included in these maps all of the carparks managed by Auckland Transport, Tournament Parking, Wilson Parking as well as a couple of others that I am aware of.…
Julie Anne Genter and Bill English in Parliament
One of the most frustrating things about the process the CRL has gone through is not that the government is forcing it to go though extremely rigid analysis, but that it doesn’t require other projects to do the same. Bill English was questioned on this today by Julie Anne Genter but never seemed to be able to directly answer the question.…
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