Photo of the day – Street Art
Some wonderful street art being created around K Rd. Photos are credited to oh.yes.melbourne…
3 Comments Carlton Gore Cycle Lane NIMBYism
Auckland Transport are currently consulting on adding cycle lanes to Carlton Gore Road. Major infrastructure work requiring road rebuilding has led to an obvious opportunity to add quality cycle lanes. See the full story on the Cycle Action blog here. However in brief, initially a typical rubbish Auckland design was proposed with a narrow painted lane on one side only, and stopping well back from intersections.…
Next batch of special housing areas announced
Yesterday the council (and Nick Smith) announced the third and largest group of Special Housing Areas (SHAs) – the locations where the council will fast tract resource consents in a bid to get more dwellings built. In addition the SHAs also pick up the planning rules currently proposed in the Unitary Plan.…
A Letter from a Reader
A letter from a reader to Auckland Transport that I was copied in on. It’s an all too familiar tale.
I am a central city dweller and I really, really want to support public transport – but you’re trying my patience and commitment.…
Lower the Ridership Targets: Really?
Yesterday we posted about the strange drive by Auckland Transport to be allowed to lower Ridership Targets for both the bus and rail networks. Of course what we struggle most with about this is that it follows on from a record March and all reports suggest that April was very busy too, and that this is continuing now into May.…
$20m Dominion Rd Parking Boondoggle
Late last week Auckland Transport put out a press release about the upgrade of Dominion Rd saying that would start as early as September. Here’s the first part of it:
Work on the long awaited upgrade of Dominion Road, one of Auckland’s busiest roads and its second busiest bus route, will go ahead in September, following decisions by Auckland Transport and New Zealand Transport Agency this week, to fund the $66.3 million project.…
Janette Sadik-Khan in Auckland
Later this month is going to be one of the biggest Auckland Conversations events so far with former New York Transport Commissioner Janette Sadik Kahn visiting Auckland. I understand that already over 1500 people have signed up and the council want even more to do so.…
Queen St Water Slide?
Auckland’s hills help to define the city and making good use of them is important. As I mentioned the other day some people have started taking to “downhilling” on the rail network whereby they get off a train at Grafton and ride down to the city from there.…
Lower the Patronage Targets – are you crazy?
On Thursday the Council will make some final key decisions on the Annual Plan for the 2014/15 year. Quickly skimming through the documentation (27MB) it doesn’t seem like there’s likely to be huge changes from the Draft Plan in terms of what the money gets spent on (hopefully the somewhat strange numbers in that draft have been fixed up).…
FASTER FFS! – Part 2
Last week on the first day of operation there were a number of complaints about delays on services that used our new electric trains. At the time I said it wasn’t surprising that some small teething problems were probably to be expected and that if they continued then it would be concerning if they were still happening days later.…
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