How travel trends are changing by age over time
Here are a few more charts from the report into public transport and Generation Y I posted about the other day.
I was surprised to see that in general the numbers of young people getting drivers licences by age group isn’t really changing all that much – with the exception of older people as more people age with licences, and the youngest age bracket due to changes in when you can get a licence.…
14 Comments The World’s Straightest Roads
A fascinating ma started doing the rounds yesterday which took a unique view on roads.
Using OpenStreetMap (OSM) data, I was able to see how bendy or straight the roads are all over the world. One theory I had was that Europe, where current roads are based on older roads that predate cars, would have more bends and curves than the USA, where current roads were (in many places) only put in in the last 150 → 100 years, and probably put in directly and dead straight.…
Greater Auckland Launch Party
We would like to invite all friends, family and supporters of the TransportBlog to celebrate the launch of our new organisation Greater Auckland. This is happening Sunday, June 21st at 3pm. There will be nibbles and mulled wine provided followed by a few speeches.…
If congestion is so bad, we should price it
Last Thursday, the Government shut the door on the idea of road pricing for Auckland, saying that it would prefer to undertake “a year-long negotiation with the council on an agreed 30-year programme focusing on reducing congestion, and boosting public transport where that reduces congestion.”…
The future of Eden Terrace?
Last year Auckland Transport announced it was dropping the Newton station from the City Rail Link in favour of a redeveloped Mt Eden station. Some of the key reasons cited included: That heritage and view shaft restrictions severely limited the redevelopment potential around the station.…
Why is the government aiming so low?
On the whole the government’s new policy of opening up excess land in Auckland for development is not a bad one. As I mentioned when it was announced, the devil was always going to be in the details and on that front the government hasn’t been doing so well.…
Public transport and Generation Y
When planning for the future we tend to do so by looking at past trends and extrapolating that forward. The somewhat scary thought is that it tends to mean there is an assumption that you will behave exactly the same way your parents did.…
Sunday reading 14 June 2015
Jenée Tibshraeny, “NZIER’s Shamubeel Eaqub calls for a cultural U-turn“, Interest.co.nz. Eaqub covers a lot of ground on housing policy in this interview:
In ‘Generation Rent’, the Eaqubs discuss three sets of solutions to help solve our housing problems.
“The first set of solutions – palliative in their nature – will be to provide better and more sustainable living conditions for Generation Rent”, they say.…
How business groups view transport
Yesterday the Auckland Business Forum sponsored four pages of op-eds in the business section of the Herald about the need to improve transport for businesses. Unfortunately it ended up being a bit of a case of who left the gates to Jurassic Park open and let the Roadasaurs out.…
CRL Stage One construction details emerge
Contractor Magazine have run an article on the CRL early works, here. AUCKLAND’S $2.5 BILLION City Rail Link project passed a milestone in April, with the appointment of two construction consortia to commence the first phase of the CRL in the Downtown area.…
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