Do we need a port in downtown Auckland?
The Port of Auckland is back with another expansion plan after the last scheme to reclaim land proved to be very unpopular with locals.
The latest proposal is something of a Hobson’s choice. Option 1 involves a fairly modest extension Bledisloe Wharf and retaining Captain Cook Wharf for offloading imported cars.…
87 Comments AT HOP penalty fare to increase
From tomorrow the penalty fare for not having a ticket on trains increases from $10.30 to $20. It is part of Auckland Transports plans to reduce fare evasion. Here is their press release:
From this Sunday, 7 April, Auckland Transport’s Penalty Fare for anyone who boards a train without a valid ticket or a tagged on AT HOP card, will increase from $10.30 to $20.00.…
What’s happening with car sales
This is a guest post from John Polkinghorne
A commenter asked recently whether Auckland car sales were back to pre-recession levels. I love a question with an easy answer. As it happens, I just ordered some Retail Trade Survey data from Stats NZ, which shows sales in the Auckland Region for each retail store type.…
The MoT and the CCFAS
In December the council released the City Centre Future Access Study (CCFAS). The study came about after the government rejected the original business case for the City Rail Link and Steven Joyce asked for among other things, more information on the alternative options.…
We’re on Facebook ….. Finally
People have been asking us to set up a Facebook page for a long time and I have finally gotten around to doing it. It is a little bit sparse right now so bear with us as we build it out.…
“CANDo 2013: Inspiring Change” in Auckland this April
This is a guest post from our friends in the cycling community
I wanted to let you know about CAN Do 2013: Inspiring Change, an exciting conference coming up in Auckland on the 13th and 14th of April.
CANDo is a national summit for cycling advocates which is held in a different location each year.…
The Decongestive That Works
Somehow over the last 60 years it became an orthodoxy that the only way to deal with the problem of too many cars on our roads is to spend ever greater sums of money on more roads for more cars [and more parking, more fuel use, more accidents, more obesity, more pollution].…
NIMBYs strike in Onehunga
NIMBYs make me so mad sometimes with the latest example comes from Onehunga. In a bid to get better use out of the extensive amount of land that they own, Housing NZ entered into a partnership with Saltburn Ltd to redevelop a handful of sites they have in Onehunga.…
Learning from Melbourne about selling PT changes
We all know that public transport in Auckland leaves a lot be be desired. The majority of existing and forecast trips happen on the bus and train network. Yet we have a bus network whose routes resemble spaghetti that has been thrown against a map and a train system being run using clapped out, 50 year old, noisy and smelly diesel trains.…
A Karaka-Weymouth bridge?
Somewhat hidden as an addendum to the Unitary Plan is information about where and how Auckland will sprawl over the next 30 years to accommodate the 160,000 dwellings (larger than Wellington or Christchurch) planned for outside the current urban limits. There are three main greenfield areas where the bulk of this growth will be located – the south, the northwest and the north.…
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