Car Parks vs. Human Life: for AT it’s a no-brainer
This is a guest post from NCD
Cyclist safety is topical at the moment. That’s good. I like being alive.
In mid-April the Expert Panel charged with reviewing cycling safety was convened. We know they’re going to produce a report with a lot of useful, practical, life-saving recommendations.…
70 Comments Rail Station HOP usage
Last week I looked at station boarding data which had been provided to me by Auckland Transport. The way it was provided showed the number of people that tagged on with HOP as well as the number that brought paper tickets.…
Photo of the Day- Cardboard Cathedral
The Transitional Christchurch Cathedral, or Cardboard Cathedral, designed by this year’s Pritzker Prize winner, Japanese architect Shigeru Ban is a rather wonderful thing. Wiki summaries the structure and its reception thus:
The cathedral rises 70 feet (21 m) above the altar.…
Airport taxis expensive
In a completely unsurprising revelation, it’s really expensive to get a taxi from the airport.
Catching a cab downtown from Auckland Airport has been labelled one of the most expensive taxi fares in the world by an international travel company.
According to a CheapFlights comparison of prices in 24 cities, New Zealand has the third most expensive per-kilometre taxi fares.…
Should the InterCity bus terminal move?
This week SkyCity kicked off a debate about where the Intercity bus terminal should be. Currently it’s almost hidden on the Hobson St side of their premises and was put there as a resource consent condition when the casino was built.…
Z Energy’s forecasts and outlook
As mentioned in a recent Herald article, and discussed by Matt in this post, Z Energy expects petrol use in New Zealand to be flat or slightly declining in the next few years. In this post, I want to go back to the source material – a Z presentation which they gave at their 2014 Investor Day.…
Is Nissan encouraging reckless driving?
I don’t watch a lot of TV but I did happen to be watching the news the other night to see what coverage there was of the EMU launch when an ad from Nissan came on.
Traditionally we’re used to car commercials existing in a sort of alternative reality where not a single other car is on the road to get in the way.…
The Missing Link
Cycling rates tend to be higher near the city center. Such bike-friendly neighborhoods are usually located within close cycling distance of university classes and downtown jobs and feature a mixture of residential and commercial land uses. For example, the bike mode share exceeds 10% in several of the central neighborhoods of both Toronto and Vancouver compared to less than 1 percent in most of their outlying residential districts.…
Rail Station boarding stats
We know rail patronage is now at alltime highs having passed 11 million trips in March however there’s an interesting question as to which stations are those trips are coming from.
It’s been a long time since we last saw data that showed how many people board trains at each station and in the past Auckland Transport obtained the information by sending out people to stations for one day a year and manually counting everyone who turns up to catch a train.…
Happy City Radio
National Radio’s Simon Morton ran a really good interview with Happy City author Charles Montgomery on the This Way UP Programme on Saturday.
If you haven’t read the book I strongly recommend having a listen, and even if you have, Montgomery’s summarises his main points really well here.…
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