Now that’s a traffic jam
Think Auckland has a congestion problem, take a look at these images from China a few days ago on the Beijing-Hong Kong-Macao Expressway. It’s the result of people heading home at the end of a week long national holiday. https://youtu.be/O3kL6nMap2s
The bottleneck kind of reminds me of this image from Sydney – and which is equally appropriate for another road based harbour crossing s…
19 Comments Where does top down meet bottom up?
This is a guest post from Brendon Harre
In a previous series on the rebuild of Christchurch CBD I have suggested a fundamental issue for urban design is how to increase amenity value without increasing property prices? How to return the amenity value created by the presence and enterprise of the community back to that community?…
Victoria St entrance to Aotea Station
Two new images from Auckland Transport on what we can expect the Aotea Station to look like.
The first shows what the entrance to the station will look like from Victoria St. A few things is you can see this will result in a significantly narrowed down Victoria St, the rest o which is meant to eventually be turned into a linear park.…
Briefing Papers 9: Housing and transport: proximity matters
AUT’s Briefing Papers initiative has kindly allowed us to syndicate their recent series on housing. I wrote the ninth paper in the series:
The decisions that individuals and societies make about housing are deeply linked to decisions about transport. The ways in which people get around are affected by where they live and how their neighbourhoods are designed.…
For Auckland Election candidates – Part 1: Transport Trends
As of today it is exactly one year away till the end of voting for the next local body election. That means talk about who will and won’t stand is only going to increase in coming months.
Unlike in central government elections, transport tends to be one of the key issues at the local body level which in many ways is unsurprising because voters see and experience the issues locally and it’s an area that councils actually have a large influence over – unlike topics such education, health, the economy or welfare.…
Modacity’s Arlington Passages
Some beautiful videos from our friends Chris and Melissa Bruntlett at Modacity Life have made for Arlington, Virginia.
In the Spring of 2015, the Modacity team was invited to Arlington, VA, for a very special project. Working closely with BikeArlington, a division of the county’s transportation department, we had the privilege of following six Arlingtonians around for the day by bicycle.…
The Volkswagen saga
One of the biggest news stories this last fortnight has been the Volkswagen emissions cheating scandal. In a “wildly illegal” strategy spanning many years, Volkswagen deliberately ‘cheated’ on emissions tests of its diesel vehicles, with software which could identify when the car was undergoing a test, and activate emissions controls only during those times.…
Grey Lynn bus stop madness
Madness has set in over changes a bus stops in Grey Lynn
Public transport upgrades in Auckland’s Grey Lynn have residents and business owners worried.
Auckland Transport is planning to upgrade the bus stops at the Surrey Cres shops to make them more accessible for public transport users.…
Pukekohe Station upgrade on the way
Auckland Transport have announced that construction will start next year on an upgrade to the Pukekohe Station, turning it into an interchange with the buses that will serve the area. Construction will begin in the first half of 2016 on the upgrade of Pukekohe Station to a new bus-train interchange.…
Auckland Road Performance
Every month we report on what’s happening with public transport patronage however Auckland Transport also report on many other metrics too such as how roads are performing. In this post I’ll look at some of those other metrics.
Instead of just measuring traffic volumes, AT use a measurement called Arterial Road Productivity which is a based on how many vehicles, how fast they’re travelling and how many people they have in them.…
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