Duncan Garner on using Public Transport
Radio Live host Duncan Garner decided to have a car-free day on Sunday and take his family from Avondale to Devonport using public transport. He has written about his experience here and it highlights many of the things wrong with our current system.…
67 Comments Express vs All Stop Trains
There has been a bit of comment on the blog recently questioning how Auckland runs it’s rail system. In particular around the whether the city should be running express trains or not. In this post I’m going to look at some of the positives and negatives on both sides of the argument.…
The impact of rail service-based inversion in Japan and what it can teach us ‘Downunder’
This is a guest Post by Rob Mayo
My background is in marketing, advertising and customer experience development. Since the 80s, with an MA in Japanese under my belt, I have lived and worked in the Tokyo/Yokohama area as well as in a number of cities in the Asia region.…
The hypocrisy of the GPS
If there’s one thing – more than anything else – that annoys me about the government’s approach to transport, it’s the double standard they apply between state highway projects (particularly RoNS projects) and public transport investment. Getting any public transport funding requires analysis after analysis, proof that the timing of the project is optimal, proof that it’s definitely the most viable and cost-effective option, links with triggers around the level of use or growth in the area the project is located – the list goes on.…
Edward Glaeser on Radio NZ
Last week Radio NZ had a great interview with Harvard economics professor and author of the book Triumph of the City Edward Glaeser.
Edward Glaeser proves in this myth-shattering book, Triumph of the City, cities are actually the healthiest, greenest, and richest (in cultural and economic terms) places to live.…
Is less congestion actually a good thing?
It almost goes without saying that congestion is a terrible thing, so bad that it justifies the spending of massive amounts of public money as well as the impact on our cities from widening and building new transport infrastructure to rid ourselves – or at least reduce the level of – this terrible thing that is congestion.…
We can (and must) afford both CRL & new network infrastructure
Former ARC Councillor Joel Cayford has recently criticised the City Rail Link as being unaffordable in the near future – largely it seems because of the need to invest in a number of pieces of bus infrastructure to support the new PT network that’s being rolled out over the next few years.…
Photo of the Day: High St- low value use
The top of High Street is interrupted, dominated, and devalued by the double-laned exit from the Victoria St car parking building. The footpath on the east side is frequently blocked by impatient drivers…. …while on the west side it is so narrow that the high numbers of people there are forced onto the oversized carriageway with the jammed traffic.…
Fuel taxes up again to pay for RoNS
Today the price of fuel goes up once again due to an increase in fuel taxes to pay for the governments Roads of National Significance programme. It’s part of an annual hike of 3 cents per litre per year over a three year period that was announced in December 2012.…
CFN and budget transport announcements
In the May budget the Government announced they would fastrack yet another $800 million of motorway projects, partially financed by a $375 million loan. These were projects that had been identified in the Prime Minister’s Auckland speech in 2013. There were 3 main projects as outlined below.…
Processing...