Unitary Plan and Minimum Parking Requirements
The closing date for submissions on the Unitary Plan is coming up fast, with the cut off being 5pm this Friday. Compared to the major publicity that erupted around the first stage things have been very quiet so far. However it is still imperative that positive submissions are lodged in support of the good parts of the plan, and also suggesting improvements. …
64 Comments Transport costs & housing affordability: part 2
Last week’s post about how considering transport costs is an important consideration when really understanding housing affordability has led to a fairly epic comments thread. This is perhaps because many sprawl advocates are so used to hammering the “sprawl is the only way to improve housing affordability” line that they feel quite threatened by a more comprehensive analysis of the situation.…
January 2014 Patronage
Patronage for January is out and there’s (mostly) positive news.
Auckland public transport patronage totalled 70,391,404 passengers for the 12-months to Jan-2014, an increase of +0.2% on the 12-months to Dec-2013. January monthly patronage was 4,653,153, an increase of 157,453 boardings or +3.5% on Jan-2013, normalised to ~ +3.3% accounting for one additional weekday and two less weekend days for rail in Jan-2014 compared to Jan-2013 (due to track closures).…
Dominion Rd parallel cycle routes get NZTA Funding
Some good news today that the NZTA have agreed to pay for just over half of the project to create cycle routes parallel to Dominion Rd.
The NZ Transport Agency has approved $3.2m in funding to extend Auckland’s cycling network.
The money will be used to construct cycle routes on less busy suburban streets that run parallel and adjacent to Dominion Road, one of Auckland’s busiest arterial links between the CBD and suburbs on the western side of the city and Auckland International Airport.…
AT’s Feb board meeting
Tomorrow the Auckland Transport board have their first public meeting of the year before and as I usually do, I’ve gone through the reports looking for what interesting information exists. The first thing that I noticed was even before getting into the reports and that was just how much was on the closed agenda vs what was on the open one.…
Photo of the day – Alpurt
A few questions:
Does this motorway really need to be extended all the way to Warkworth?
Does anyone ever drive at the speed limit on this stretch of motorway? Photo is credited to oh.yes.melbourne…
More details on the Elliott Tower
Since it was announced just under two weeks ago there has been a lot of interest in the proposal to build a massive tower on the empty site that is bounded by Elliott St, Victoria St and Albert St yet there has been very few details released about the building.…
The Width of Quay St
This great photo by Richard Joseph shows just how wide Quay St is and how much it is focused on the movement of vehicles. All up the width between the buildings and the red fence/Ferry building is about 30m. Here’s an example of what would fit in that width.…
Rudman on the current Transport plans
It’s almost as if Brian Rudman had been reading the blog (I’ve heard that he does).
Labour’s Auckland issues spokesman, Phil Twyford, says Labour now backs Mayor Len Brown’s bid to levy an extra charge on Auckland road users through road or congestion charges or a regional fuel tax.…
Northern Express free this weekend
Auckland Transport are running a free weekend for Northern Express services this weekend. An excellent initiative by AT. I hope it’s something that becomes a regular feature along with other parts of the PT network (oh and I like the graphic too, shame the footer floated over part of it).…
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