Streets & Roads

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.…
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Housing & Development

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.…
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Data & Analysis

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.…
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Rapid Transit & Rail

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).…
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Policy & Technology

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.…
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