Photo of the day – Fanshawe St bus stop
On a wet and windy day like today the bus stop on Fanshawe St next to Victoria Park is not a nice place to be waiting for a bus. AT have said they plan on building a proper busway along Fanshawe St and that should include a proper station rather than just a few measly shelters.…
18 Comments Route optimisation in the CBD
In recent weeks we’ve started to see a number of small but important changes to in the CBD in the aim of improving the pedestrian experience. This has included installing a Barnes dance on the intersection of Quay St and Hobson St and closing the slip lane from Albert St through to Quay St.…
AA’s Auckland infrastructure issues newsletter
In May the AA created the first issue of a newsletter highlighting infrastructure issues in Auckland (5.5 MB). The AA say they have 1.4 million members nationwide of which 900,000 are personal members and of those 285,000 are in Auckland. Between November 2013 and February 2014 the AA conducted two different research projects to obtain the views of many of their members through two research projects on issues like infrastructure priorities and how to fund it.…
Photo of the Day: Star Site
Hard not to agree with the the agent quoted in the Herald commercial property section “that there’s no doubt this is Auckland city’s stellar building site”. The double fronted site, facing both lower Shortland St; long Auckland’s grandest commercial address, and onto the old beach front of Fort St, commanding an uninterruptable view down Commerce St to the sea, is now even more valuable because of the upgrades to the surrounding public realm.…
Postcard from Seattle
On first impressions Seattle is a lively and interesting place, but perhaps a little, er, grungy. It’s a hilly city with a downtown built across a reclaimed tidal beach and nearby cliffs which have overtime been regarded into some very steep streets.…
Four reasons why residential parking permits are unwise
The release of Auckland Transport’s draft Parking Discussion Document has stimulated some much-needed debate on parking issues. Various aspects of this debate has been covered in a number of media articles and blog posts. This article from Friday, however, caught my attention.…
Glen Innes to Tamaki Dr Cycleway moving ahead
Cycle Action Auckland have revealed that a cycleway between Glen Innes and Tamaki Dr is being brought forward by a collaboration between Auckland Transport and the NZTA and the first stages could be under construction in just a few months.
The details we have at this stage were revealed in a presentation delivered to the CAA just over a week ago.…
Sell the Downtown carpark?
An interesting development yesterday as the owners of Tournament Parking turned up to the council with a check for $7.5 million as a deposit to try and buy Auckland Transport’s Downtown carpark for $75 million.
The operators of Tournament Parking have made a surprise offer of $75 million today to buy the downtown carpark from Auckland Council.…
Photo of the Day – St Marys Bay
Including Westhaven Dr I count about 13 lanes of traffic of which only one is a dedicated bus lane. Also not much in the way of active modes although that is currently being remedied. Photo is credited to oh.yes.melbourne…
Postcard from Vancouver
This is the first of what will hopefully be a series of picture heavy postcards from great transit cities. City number one is Vancouver, something of a poster child for how to retrofit transit, walking and cycling to a young new world city.…
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