Photo of the day – Customs St
Photo is copyright to Craig.…
20 Comments Mayor’s Inaugural Speech
On Tuesday night the new Council was officially sworn in and the Committee Structure announced, best covered here. We will discuss the Committee Structure further in future posts – because it is interesting to consider the slightly different approach that has been taken to transport compared to under the previous Council.…
Christchurch Central City Transport Plan
Yesterday the government announced the formal transport plan for the Christchurch central city which is one of the parts to the Christchurch Central Recovery Plan. I’ve had a brief look through the plan and I must say that overall, it isn’t too bad.…
Photo of the day – St Heliers
Photos are copyright to Sydney.…
Transmission Gully to start next year
The prime minister has announced that work on Transmission Gully will start next year, just before the elections.
Construction on Wellington’s controversial Transmission Gully road link will begin in the second half of next year – and open to traffic in 2020.…
The infrastructure needed to support the new PT network
Just over a year ago Auckland Transport released the draft version of the Regional Public Transport Plan and for Auckland it was nothing short of revolutionary. It was the first time we had officially seen the plans for the new bus network has seen the entire network redesigned from scratch focusing around a series of frequent bus routes that would run with at least 15 minute frequencies for most of the day, 7 days a week.…
Sir Dove-Myer Robinson
Transport in Auckland would certainly be very different if Robbie had of succeeded in his dream of a regional rail system. Here is the rail plan from 1972 that he championed, it’s from this post.…
Auckland a great place to visit
Excellent news today that Lonely Planet has ranked Auckland as one of the best cities to visit.
Auckland has been rated one of the world’s top 10 cities to visit by travel bible Lonely Planet.
The city, which attracts 1.8 million foreign visitors a year, sits alongside iconic places including Paris, Zurich, Shanghai and Vancouver in the ninth annual Best in Travel guide, published today.…
Road capacity vs the two second rule
Although I can’t put my hands on it at the moment, we’re often told that the capacity of a motorway lane is 2,000 vehicles per hour. And this may well be the case. But it doesn’t quite gel with one of the other things that we’re told is important: the two second rule.…
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