Auckland Council candidates confirmed.
Nominations for the local body elections closed yesterday. Getting not just a mayor but a council that supports improving public transport will be critical to getting projects like the City Rail Link across the line. For the CRL at least, I think we can certainly say it wouldn’t have progressed as far as it has without having received the large amount of support it has had from the current councillors.…
63 Comments The desperate need for a fares policy
There have been a lot of articles in the media recently bemoaning changes to public transport fares as the AT Hop card is progressively introduced. The latest relates to hikes in ferry fares which are coming in the near future:
Big fare hikes for ferry users could hit within weeks.…
A Good Road
‘Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful’
-William Morris 1880
Because we argue here at ATB that it is time to rebalance our spending priorities away from always assuming that road building is the best or only answer to our transport problems, especially for those caused by too much traffic in cities, we often get accused of all sorts of emotional things like being ‘car haters’.…
Hyperloop or Loopy Hype
There has been quite a bit of hype over the last couple of days about the Hyperloop proposal being pushed by Elon Musk. It’s been quite interesting to see the different reactions that have come out about the project.
Billionaire inventor and entrepreneur Elon Musk has unveiled his design for a super-fast transport system that carries passengers in pressurised tubes at near-supersonic speeds.…
2013 Transport Monitoring Results
Buried deep within the agenda of last week’s Transport Committee meeting is a report on the results of both the annual screenline and congestion surveys. The screenline survey in particular is a very long running (back to the 1980s) survey which counts the number of people crossing various points – most particularly those travelling into the city centre by various modes.…
Gerry discovers electric cars
An interesting article in the herald this morning about Gerry Brownlee who to took a trip to the California to have a look at “alternative transport” options but only appears to have looked at cars
Transport Minister Gerry Brownlee says his scepticism about electric cars has all but disappeared after he took a spin along the Los Angeles coastal freeway in an electric sports car.…
Guest Post: Rail Patronage Targets
This is a Guest Post by reader Luke Christensen
There has been much concern regarding stalling rail patronage recently. This was a substantial topic of discussion at both the Auckland Council Transport Committee meeting and the CCO Strategy Review Committee last Wednesday.…
Why not use the Linear Park?
Another day and another story about the City Rail Link notice of requirement hearings from the Herald. This focus of this article is the heritage buildings on the corner of Albert St and Victoria St.
Auckland Transport consultants are divided over whether a block of inner-city heritage buildings more than 140 years old will survive excavations for the city’s underground railway.…
Electric Train Driving Simulator
After his interview on TVNZ yesterday where he talked about the congestion free network, Len Brown headed south to Wiri launch the driving simulators for our new electric trains. Patrick and I both went along to have a look at them and also have a go. …
Red light running campaign starts
Auckland Transport is starting a new campaign against red light running and have the backing of the police. Here is the press release:
Auckland Transport and Police are combining their efforts to make motorists, motorcyclists, cyclists and pedestrians safer at traffic light controlled intersections.…
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