AMETI busway closer
Auckland Transport have announced that they are close to a final design for the Panmure to Pakuranga Busway and that there will be community consultation about it this week. Busway for east Auckland a step closer
Quicker, frequent and more reliable bus services for the east are a step closer with Panmure to Pakuranga busway design plans near finalisation.…
47 Comments AT wants electric car sharing
Auckland Transport have announced they want a large region wide electric car sharing scheme in Auckland Auckland Transport is looking for a car share operator to launch a large scale scheme in Auckland, based on Plug-in Electric Vehicles.
Auckland Transport has released a Request for Proposal (RFP) from car share operators to create a scheme here.…
On The Waterfront
I’ve always loved a working port, growing up on Tintin, where intrigue and big issues always led our hero to docks, and [sadly] being old enough to just remember Auckland’s finger wharves busy with cranes and the last of the goods trains still running on Quay St, I’m a sucker for the romance and tough rough-neck image of it all.…
Sunday Reading 8 March 2015
Every week we read more than we can write about on the blog. To avoid letting good commentary and research fall by the wayside, we’re going to publish weekly excerpts from what we’ve been reading.
Tanvi Misra, “Young people are pulling jobs back to city centres“, Citylab:
Talented young people are moving to urban centers, raising the skill level of the labor force and attracting the attention of businesses.…
Guest Post: Rail and the City
*This is a guest post by regular reader and occasional contributor, Warren Sanderson. Book Review
RAIL AND THE CITY – Shrinking Our Carbon Footprint While Reimagining Urban Space
Roxanne Warren
Unlike Paul Mees‘ book ‘Transport for Suburbia’ which deals in depth, among other things, with what went so terribly wrong with Auckland’s transport planning in the second half of last century, Roxanne Warren does not mention New Zealand once.…
Hope for Albany and more
There’s been quite a few bits of development news in the last few days that are worth covering. The first is in Albany where an 800 apartment development called the Rose Garden apartments might finally give some hope that Albany won’t be a completely soulless auto dependant centre.…
The Harbour Bridge Lit Up
These pictures come from reader Jonty showing the NZTA’s new lighting scheme on the Harbour Bridge. The NZTA are usually quite good at providing information on changes like this but I haven’t seen anything this time so I’m not sure if it’s a permanent thing or not.…
Essential Transport Budget – the first 3 years
Guest Post by Ryan Mearns, Generation Zero Auckland
On Tuesday Generation Zero launched our Essential Budget, as an alternative to the Basic and Auckland Plans currently being consulted on as part of the Long Term Plan. We showed that Auckland could build the most transformation projects from the Auckland Plan for only $80 million per year, rather than the $300 million extra cost of the Auckland Plan.…
MoT’s review of capital spending on roads, part 4
This is the fourth post in a series on the Ministry of Transport’s working paper on New Zealand’s capital spending on roads, which was prepared as an input to the 2015/16 Government Policy Statement (GPS) on Land Transport Funding. It was released to Matt under the Official Information Act just before Christmas.…
John Oliver on US infrastructure
A great piece from John Oliver on infrastructure in the US where politicians have repeatedly failed to address funding issues. Here in NZ politicians haven’t had an issue with raising fuel taxes but the problem is the money raised has all gone towards building the Roads of National Significance which is squeezing out funding for maintenance as well as more valuable state highway and local road projects.…
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