Stuart’s 100 #15 Understanding the City Link Bus a s a Tram on Rubber Wheels
15: Understanding the City Link Bus as a Tram on Rubber Wheels What if the red city link bus was more like a tram on rubber wheels?
Ok, so trams do have wheels, steel ones on rails. But bear with me, they also tend to be used for short intra-city trips like the City Link Bus route, and therefore have different seating layouts compared to longer haul trains and buses.…
29 Comments Cycling in Manukau
Last week I looked at how hard it was to safely walk around Manukau City. Today I am going to look at the cycling infrastructure that has been provided.
On the various regional cycle network maps a lovely grid of completed cycling facilities is shown (solid lines).…
Deferring Transport Projects
So what do you do when you’re told you have to cut some of your $826 million budget for capital projects and that in choosing what to cut it can’t apply to public transport projects?
Well it seems if you’re Auckland Transport you start by cutting PT and active mode projects.…
Stuart’s 100 #14: Better Paint Jobs
14: Better Paint Jobs What if heritage buildings had better colour schemes that enhanced their rich detail?
There seems to be a thing at the moment where every time an older building is refurbished or just repainted, the modernising thing to do is to just ‘greywash’ or ‘beigewash’ the old facades.…
Send a message to Len Brown about Auckland’s Long Term Plan
This Thursday the mayor is releasing his first proposal for Auckland’s Long Term Plan, the 10 year budget for the city. Last week I blogged about the budgetary pressures the council is facing, and the risk of large cuts in public transport investment.…
Recapping the Congestion Free Network
Over the past couple of weeks there has been a lot of renewed interest in the Congestion Free Network, as first the Greens and then Labour picked it up as the core of their Auckland transport policy. Given the growing support for the CFN, it’s useful for us to highlight in a bit more detail what it is, where it came from, why we think it will transform Auckland, and how we can pay for it.…
Auckland Transport August Board Meeting
The Auckland Transport board meeting is today and below are the bits and pieces from the reports that caught my attention.
First up as usual there are a number of items in the closes session of the meeting that it would be very interesting to see the details about.…
Next Generation Transportation Course (On-line)
Here’s an on-line certificate program that may interest some readers. It has been put together by Gordon Price (Pricetags) at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver. The program is multi-disciplinary and taught by a diverse range of practicing professionals.
Here’s a synoposis of the course:
SFU’s new online Certificate in Next-Generation Transportation is designed to help mid-career professionals use next-generation transportation strategies to advance livable and sustainable cities of the future.…
Stuart’s 100 #13: Victoria Park Market
Stuart Houghton’s 100 ideas for Auckland continues
13: Victoria Park Market What if Victoria Park Market actually was a market?
Victoria Park Market, the city’s old municipal refuse station and ‘destructor’; is a unique collection of historic buildings on the edge of the former foreshore across the road from Victoria Park.…
Postcard from Gothenburg, Hanover, and Hamburg
This is a Guest Post by regular reader Warren Sanderson
Gothenburg, Hanover, and Hamburg
What do these three cities have in common? In my view a real “sense of place”.
Very efficient public transport systems
They all had my wife and me as visitors in the month of July.…
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