Manukau Bus Interchange
The new bus network for South Auckland will significantly improve public transport options for many people in the area. A key feature of the network is about making it easier to transfer between services and one of the main places that will happen is in Manukau – one of Auckland’s most important regional centres.…
90 Comments Effectiveness & Efficiency == Abundance?
In the last few months we’ve published several posts which have, in various ways, touched on some important issues facing local government in Auckland. In this post I seek to summarise some key concepts that have emerged in these posts, and consider some broader implications for Council policies, especially relating to transport.…
The Same Day
A great ad from the Spanish Transport department highlighting the growing frustration of constant traffic jams and the fight to find parking – urging people to re-think how they travel to and from work. s…
Airbus Express becomes SkyBus
Auckland’s city to airport bus has new owners bringing with them a new name, a new livery and promising a higher quality service. The Airbus Express service has been bought by SkyBus who operate Melbourne’s airport bus service.
Free on-board Wi-Fi and ground hosts to welcome intrepid travellers to Auckland are just the beginning of big plans by new owners to expand – and smarten – the 24-hour airport bus service.…
Concepts: Elasticity of housing supply
How should we think through the dynamics of housing markets?
Conceptually, there’s a very simple answer and a very complex one. The simple version is that housing is just another market, shaped by the interaction of demand – i.e. people turning up with money to buy dwellings – and supply – people building new dwellings to meet demand.…
Sunday reading 1 November 2015
The big news this week was the decision of the Vancouver City Council to remove their clunky viaduct. Like the Dominion Road Flyover the viaducts are a legacy fragment of a wider scale scheme that was never realised. To this day the viaducts remain an asterisk for one of the only North American cities to resist the widescale incursion of motorways into the city centre.…
Funding Kiwirail and Trucks
Yesterday Kiwirail released their annual results and once again they lost a significant amount of money – $167 million for the year. The shortfall obviously has to come from the Government. They were also keen to point out that the main reason for the loss was the cost of maintaining the rail network which includes 4,000 kilometres of track, 1500 bridges and 150 tunnels.…
Population Growth in 2015
Last week Statistics NZ released their provisional population estimates as of 30 June 2015 and there were some interesting results.
All regions in NZ with the exception of the West Coast saw their population increase with the largest increase both in total number and in percentage occurring in Auckland.…
The Original Harbour Bridge
If you follow us on Facebook or Twitter then you may have seen some of these the other day. If you haven’t, here is a collection of some great old colour photos of the Auckland Harbour Bridge and St Mary’s Bay before they both got fatter with more traffic lanes.…
What will the heart of Whangarei be like in 20 years?
This is a guest post from Tony Horton, Senior Strategic Planner at Whangarei District Council
What will the heart of Whangarei be like in 20 years? This is the question currently being asked by Whangarei District Council.
But this is not being asked through the usual myriad of planning documents, strategic frameworks or growth strategies.…
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