Further clarifications about time-of-use transport pricing
In this recent post on Auckland’s transport funding gap, Peter Nunns espoused the merits of time-of-use transport pricing as a way of increasing the productivity of the transport system. Peter came up with this analogy to help highlight the merits of time-of-use transport pricing:
Let’s say you’re managing a factory.…
38 Comments Site Stats and User Guidelines
We just keep getting bigger. The debates around Auckland’s growth, planning, and transport are clearly very important to many, and, it seems, more and more people are turning to this site to keep track of them and have their say. Here are the site stats to the end of the most recent full month, April 2013, already since since then we have had two more record breaking days:
Sitemeter rankings put us firmly as the fourth most viewed blog in the country, which frankly astounds me for such a serious and grown-up site.…
Mapping changes over 30 years
Auckland has changed hugely over the last few decades as the city has grown. The other day Google announced on its blog:
Today, we’re making it possible for you to go back in time and get a stunning historical perspective on the changes to the Earth’s surface over time.…
Auckland Housing Accord announced
Back in March and just before the council released the Unitary Plan, Nick Smith hit headlines by saying that he was going to smash Aucklands Metropolitan Urban Limit in a bid to make housing more affordable but it appeared he was primarily focused on enabling the city to sprawl faster.…
Funding gap or efficiency gap?
Peter Nunns is an economist working in Auckland with an interest in transport past, present, and future. (Disclaimer: The opinions expressed here are his personal views and do not reflect upon the position of any organisation with which he is associated or constitute professional advice.)…
Will Sci-Fi become reality?
Moving from History in today’s earlier posts, lets now move to the future. A lot of technology first suggested in various forms of sci-fi have eventually come to fruition, particularly when it comes to communications. However one area we don’t seem to have made much progress on has been transport, after all where are our hoverboards, transporters or flying cars.…
How much rail in Newmarket has changed
Today is a bit of a history day. Despite the running down and removal of our PT system over the decades we know that new life is currently being breathed into it so I believe it is important to remember just how far we have come in a relatively short space of time.…
Auckland’s Historic PT Patronage
Some comments the other day raised the question about what led to patronage dropping so much in the late 1950’s. Was it the removal of the tram network or was it the opening of the Harbour bridge, the motorways and the introduction of cheaper cars.…
Guest Post: Why I love intensification in my neighbourhood
This is a guest post from John Polkinghorne
I really enjoyed Matt’s post on why he wants intensification in his neighbourhood. I thought I’d write one on why I love it in mine. First off I should explain that I live in a CBD fringe apartment.…
Stopping Auckland’s Growth – a slippery slope
Much of the debate over the Unitary Plan should be over the question of how should Auckland grow. However, this debate has been somewhat derailed by a reasonable number of people questioning whether Auckland should grow at all – or whether it should grow as much.…
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