Council’s transport funding for 2014/15
Last week Len Brown presented his first draft of the councils budget for the next financial year (2014/15). If approved as is it will see the total amount of money raised from rates increase by 2.5% which is said to be down from the 4.9% projected in the long term plan.…
35 Comments Photo of the day – Osborne Lane
Osborne Lane in Newmarket. If you don’t know where this is it is a series of laneways recently created between the old light industrial areas bordered by Osborne St, Kent St, York St and Khyber Pass Photos above are copyright to Sydney, one below are mine…
Cycle Streets: A Cycle Boulevard for Bayswater
This is another guest post from Ben L that originally appeared on Cycle Action Auckland.
Following on from the previous post on cycle streets, just as with the network for motorised vehicles requires “arterials” to carry high traffic volumes, cycle networks need the same.…
Stopping cars from damaging shared streets
A story in the NZ Herald yesterday has scratched the surface on of the key problems that do exist with shared spaces.
Everyone knows the Maori language has taken a battering, but in downtown Auckland, a seat in the form of the word “reo” has been put near the middle of the road outside the central library and is now scraped and bent out of shape because of vehicles banging into it.…
Positive speed feedback
I’m a strong believer that along with police enforcement, that we should also use positive feedback to encourage drivers to drive slower. Waitemata local board member Vernon Tava posted this video showing some being done locally on Ponsonby Rd.
Click the image for the video to play View this post on Instagram A post shared by Vernon Tava (@vernontava) Love the chill baby chill for the speeders…
Painful AT HOP rollout continues
Without exception, everyone who I have spoken to about the rollout of the AT Hop card on buses over the past few months has said it has been managed disastrously. Perhaps most damning of all is the rollout onto Metrolink services which isn’t being done in one single go – but rather split messily into two stages: the first being today and the second being on November 24th in two weeks time.…
Photo of the day – Britomart haze
The haze at Britomart from the diesel fumes. I can’t wait for the day when we only have electric trains stopping at the station. Speaking of electric trains, reader Gianfranco sent me these photo’s showing our second electric train being unloaded yesterday.…
Transforming New York’s Streets – lessons for Auckland?
Here’s a great video of New York City transport commission Janette Sadik-Khan, talking about the transformation of many streets within New York City over the past few years to be much friendlier to pedestrians and cyclists: Perhaps the best suggestion she highlights are the benefits from changing streets quickly, cheaply and in a way that can be reversible if it doesn’t work.…
Photo of the day – Shortland St
Cornerbar adding some colour to Shortland St Photo is copyright to Sydney…
Cycle Friendly Streets: A Complete Network
This is a guest post by by Ben L and Bryce P and originally appeared on Cycle Action Auckland.
What prevents more people from riding bikes to school, work, to shops or simply to a friend’s house? The biggest deterrent to cycling, for many people is their perceived lack of safety while riding.…
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