Island Bay Cycleway: Safety for All Road Users
This is a guest post by Wellington architect Guy Marriage.
Wellington City Council has, at last, voted to go ahead with its first separated cycle-way and to adopt the Wellington Cycling Framework. The former is a section of cycle-way starting in Island Bay (a southern suburb next to Cook Strait, once a predominantly Italian fishing village).…
107 Comments May 2015 Patronage
The patronage results for May are out and again the numbers are increasing – although not quite to the same level as recent months. This is in part due to there being one less business day in the month compared to May last year.…
Dropping the Dwell
On Monday July 20 – less than a month away – for the first time all services on Auckland’s rail network¹ will be fully electric as the roll-out of EMUs reaches its next milestone. Having all trains being electric should at least remove the issue of increasingly unreliable diesel trains from the network however it will also present it’s own problems.…
The cost of space (for cars)
Earlier this month, urban policy researcher Todd Litman published a useful summary of some of his new research into the cost of sprawl:
Our analysis indicates that by increasing the distances between homes, businesses, services and jobs, sprawl raises the cost of providing infrastructure and public services by 10-40 percent.…
North Shore New Network Feedback Reminder
This is just a reminder that if you haven’t already, provide your feedback about the new North Shore bus network which is open for 3 more weeks. You can read more about my thoughts here. AT have also put out these video’s about it encouraging feedback.…
New bus lanes for CRL disruption
Auckland Transport announced yesterday (interestingly only on social media) that there have been no appeals against their consent to start works for the City Rail Link in Albert St. That has cleared the way for work to start in November on moving stormwater pipes – the first physical works needed to deliver the project.…
Mangere/Airport Rail 2.0
Below is AT’s proposed post CRL rail running pattern. Quite complicated, with some peak only services and an infrequent 3tph [trains per hour] Henderson-Grafton-Otahuhu crosstown service. One feature of this design is that the 6 tph Swanson-CRL-Onehunga service [core Western line service] has every second train stopping at Newmarket, so it becomes 3tph from there to Onehunga.…
Auckland Conversations: Mike Lydon – Better Streets, Better Places
A very late reminder sorry but tomorrow is the next Auckland Conversations event with the guest this time Mike Lydon, author of Tactical Urbanism. Mike Lydon is an internationally recognised planner, writer, and advocate for liveable cities.
Mike is a principal of The Street Plans Collaborative, New York – an award-winning planning, design and research-advocacy firm, which strives to create high-quality public spaces, and believes that the key to reversing the harmful effects of suburban sprawl is to promote compact, walkable, mixed-use neighbourhoods.…
Roughan confirms LRT Success
On Saturday we learned that Auckland Transport’s light rail plans will be an outstanding success. We learned this not from anything Auckland Transport has told us but from a column written by the Herald’s John Roughan. He ended the piece with:
An underground link to give Auckland’s lines a central turning loop is said to be the key to unlocking their potential for urban commuters.…
Help us to create a Greater Auckland
Transportblog started seven years ago and we are immensely proud of what it has become. Equally, we are extremely excited about the way the Auckland is starting to develop. The city is already blessed with natural assets many cities can only dream of, but has for too long been let down by its built environment.…
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