Photo of the day – Evening Ferry
It’s a glorious Friday afternoon so how about some photos to look at taken from Queens Wharf (not taken today though, weather is much nicer) Photo are copyright to Sydney…
9 Comments From the Ground Up: Rebuilding Christchurch as a Sustainable City
Dr. Susan Krumdieck is an energy researcher and a Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Canterbury. I met her earlier this year at the 2013 NERI Energy Conference, where she gave a spoken presentation and was listed as an author for five different posters being presented!…
Three Quick Wins for Auckland Walkability
This is a guest post by Brent Toderian & Darren Davis. Brent was recently in the Auckland. They have requested we post it although it originally appeared on the Shape Auckland site. After six packed days working with staff from Auckland Council and Auckland Transport last month, it was very clear to our international urbanism consultant, and co-author of this article Brent Toderian, that there are a lot of great things happening in Auckland city-making!…
Santa Parade a nightmare waiting to happen
Another of the board papers presented to the AT board yesterday seemed fairly innocuous and so I didn’t cover it but at the meeting today I actually found it slightly interesting but then more details have emerged which has raised a heap of questions.…
Nice Pair!
Never before seen in Auckland: A breeding pair of EMUs Thing One on the left and Thing Two on the right: full set: … and from behind: …with the depot building Very nice and a credit to the specifying team in NZ and all the people at CAF both here and back at the factory in Beasain: Above: The factory nestled in the beautiful Basque countryside, and below the town just outside the gates … more soon.…
Penlink back on the agenda
For the last two days both Patrick and I have attended a conference on Auckland Transport Infrastructure that was even chaired by the founder of this blog. The agenda included talks on a wide variety of topics related to transport there were a number of quite good ones that I will post about in the future.…
Photo of the day – Ramps
This is what we have focused on creating for so long in this city Photo is copyright to Sydney…
Government motorway package being fast-tracked
A paper to the Auckland Transport board shows just how easy it is for our existing transport plans to be changed to accommodate new motorway projects. It comes about due to the governments announcement that they were fast tracking a series of roading projects around Auckland.…
October 2013 patronage
The Auckland Transport board meets again on Thursday and as such we now have the patronage results for October. Even better is there seems to be good news all around with all modes improving compared to October last year. Further there were the same number of working days making for an easier comparison – although on the rail network there were two full weekend shut-downs compared to one partial one in October 2012.…
New City Rail Link Video
We have been extremely critical of Auckland Transport for how they have undersold the City Rail Link to the general public through vague statements that suggest things like that services will actually be worse than they are now or will be with electrification.…
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