Walkability to improve health
A good Ted Talk from the Mayor of Oklahoma about how the city the city managed to lose weight in part by making the city more walkable.…
3 Comments Panmure Interchange opens
Auckland Transport officially opened the new Panmure transport interchange today. Here’s the press release:
Panmure’s new transport interchange will make life a lot easier for commuters with the walking time between buses and trains now taking less than a minute.
The new bus and train station has been opened today by Mayor Len Brown and Associate Transport Minister, Michael Woodhouse.…
Stopping the “blame game” – Improving road safety in NZ
Greetings,
Trust 2014 is treating everyone well thus far. For my part I‘ve spent the last month or so travelling through the Netherlands, Germany, Norway, Sweden, France, and now Austria. Tomorrow I begin the long (28 hour) journey back to Auckland, where I hope the best part of summer will be ready to greet me. …
Focusing on safety
One of the big reasons for making improvements to our streets is simply for safety. Safety for pedestrians, safety for cyclists and safety for drivers. We’ve been talking about safety a lot over the last month or so and despite the great news that 2013 has the lowest road toll in New Zealand for over 60 years, it’s still way too high.…
What are other cities doing about Cycling
A comment in the herald the other day about cycling really caught my attention (and many others) and seems to highlight well Auckland Transports attempt to shift the current debate on cycling away from the need for significantly improved cycling infrastructure by using the old “that’s some other place, we’re different” excuse.…
Lots on this weekend
The screening of The Human Scale along with the Pecha Kucha night has unfortunately been cancelled due to high winds with the organisers looking to reschedule the screening in March.
However if you are in the area and want something to do another event in the area is still going ahead.…
Electric vehicles (part 1)
Almost all of the cars New Zealanders drive today are “conventional” vehicles, which use internal combustion engines and run only on liquid or gaseous fuels – mainly petrol or diesel, although a tiny number use other fuels such as compressed natural gas or biofuels.…
Further thoughts on the East-West announcement
Last night’s announcement that Auckland Transport and the NZTA have dropped the option of running a motorway through Mangere is great news and they should be commended for doing the right thing. However as usual it raises a lot of questions so I thought I would look into what impacts the announcement will have.…
Great East-West news
Auckland Transport and the NZTA have just announced that they have dropped all East-West Link options that go through Mangere. This is fantastic news and I understand a formal press release is coming out soon and will update this once that happens.…
Will people walk further for higher frequency bus services?
To me the new bus network presents Auckland Transport with many opportunities to improve transport in Auckland. These include: It simplifies the bus network and removes unnecessary duplication and inefficiency.
It allows for greatly improved frequencies across much of the city.…
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