Sunday reading 12 April 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.
Emily Badger and Christopher Ingraham, “Mapped: How hard it is to get across US cities using only bike lanes“, Wonkblog:
Bike commuting throughout the city is often like this: cobbled together out of a bit of bike lane here, an unprotected shoulder there, a scrap of sharrow and some silent pleas that cars won’t run you over.…
19 Comments The CRL Design Showcase
Today Auckland Transport start a five day long CRL design showcase which is showing what the new stations and public spaces will look like. It’s taking place in QEII Square from 10am to 4pm so if you’re going to the Open Streets event tomorrow then consider popping along.…
Southern Motorway History
These are just a few images I found recently of what the Southern Motorway used to look like. They were taken in February 1963 They were taken from the Princes Rd bridge in Otahuhu.…
What’s up with PTOM
Bus contracts might seem like a fairly boring topic to most people, but they can have a big impact on how our transport system operates – including, obviously, how much we as tax/ratepayers pay. In New Zealand we’re slowly moving towards a new contracting system known as the Public Transport Operating Model (PTOM).…
Visualising complete and incomplete networks
A few weeks ago, I posted a map showing how Auckland’s city centre-based cycle network is full of gaps. We’ve got some nice bits of infrastructure, such as the Grafton Gully and Beach Road cycleways, and a few on-street cycle lanes, but it all stops and starts without warning.…
Auckland Open Street Event – Quay Street
This Sunday Quay Street will be opened up for people walking and cycling for the Open Streets event. Last year the event was a bit awkward with all the staged activities being shunted to the footpath while the street remained relatively empty.…
Auckland Conversations: Charles Montgomery
If you haven’t already added this to your calendar (and you’re in Auckland) then make sure you do so. Next week Charles Montgomery, the author of Happy City is in Auckland and will be holding an Auckland Conversations talk. Patrick wrote a review of the book last year.…
Simon Bridges speaks to Infratil
Last week Infratil – the owner of NZ Bus among other things – held their annual investor day and one of the speakers was Simon Bridges whose ministerial portfolio’s of Transport, Energy and Resources as well as being the Associate Minister of Climate Change cover a lot of Infratil’s businesses.…
2015 Long Term Plan Final Feedback
The council have announced the results of the public submissions on the Long Term Plan. We saw a few updates during the consultation including this one from on the results up to 19 February. At that time there had been around 5,000 submissions however the full consultation ended with over 27,000 – that’s a lot more than the 10,000 from the previous LTP.…
Demographia and omitted variable bias
My last two posts about Demographia’s analysis of house prices prompted quite a bit of discussion. I thought that it may be worth expanding on my points and clarifying why they mean that we should take Demographia’s conclusions with a large grain of salt.…
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