Are more expensive stations worth the cost?
One of the things I’ve really liked about some of the recent developments in our PT network has been the development of some really high quality stations. In the Herald on Sunday, Janet McAllister takes a look at the new Panmure station which is the most recent of these:
Although traffic fixes seem super-slow, the efforts of our transport czars to beautify the Super City along the way have been a nice surprise.…
36 Comments Photo of the day – Footpath
There are many things that frustrate me about post 1950 suburban developments and one of the big ones is the absolutely crappy footpaths that are so narrow you can barely fit two people abreast on them. Not that there is necessarily anything to walk to in most of these suburbs as there are normally no close shops and the streets are often convoluted adding hundreds of metres (or more) to any walking route.…
Different ways of visualising PT networks
Harry Beck changed the way we see the way we understand transport systems when he came up with his now famous tube map which dropped the geographical accuracy in favour of legibility. It was so successful that almost all transit systems around the world now use a similar design.…
Photo of the day: Tauranga and The Mount
Today’s photos come from a trip I made to Tauranga for Labour Weekend last year. Tauranga’s one of our larger cities, with a population of around 123,500 people (having grown pretty quickly in the last couple of decades – in 1996, its population was 84,200).…
HOP rolling out to more buses tomorrow
From tomorrow we will finally move one step closer to the completion of integrated ticking with AT HOP going live on Ritchies buses and that includes the Northern Express. That means finally the AT branded transport ticket can be used on the AT branded buses (you would have thought it would have been one of the first to change over).…
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