Houston and the fallacy of “roads first” transport policy
Over the last 50 or 60 years, the United States, Australia, New Zealand, and a number of other countries have pursued a “roads first” approach to transport policy. There have been significant public investments in (generally un-tolled) roads, and relatively few investments in competing transport modes.…
18 Comments South Auckland Bus Tender gets interesting
There have been a few bits of bus news recently
The first and most interesting is last week NZ Bus announced that that they hadn’t been short-listed for any of the routes as part of the new South Auckland bus network due to roll out in October.…
Transport technologies!?! Part 2
This previous post considered wider socio-economic factors which might shape the development/deployment of transport technologies, namely 1) denser cities, 2) policy settings, and 3) demographics. In this post I now discuss some more specific issues that are relevant to transport technologies, specifically: Economies of density
Costs: Fixed versus variable
Complements versus substitutes
Conclusions: The Spruce Moose?…
Auckland Anniversary PT Fail
I’ve had two pieces of feedback following PT for Auckland Anniversery events on over weekend. The first is from reader Jeff
My friend started out with “Meet me at mine, Mt Eden, it should be a $15 Uber from here”
To which I said “I was thinking of Biking to the Train station, leaving the bikes there then catching the train in, It feels silly to not use PT into the CBD”
And such was my argument to my friend Matt who kindly cycled to my place from Mt Eden, to catch the train into Britomart for Laneway Festival at 2pm on a Monday.…
Annual PT Fare Changes for 2016
Auckland Transport are making a few changes to public transport fares on 28 February and some of them are bound to result in howls of outrage. The changes are part of ATs annual fare review and they have said they are being influenced by a couple of key factors: The need to achieve the NZTAs farebox recovery policy of 50% of costs covered by fares by June 2018
Changes to operating costs
Changes in preparation for ATs Simplified Fares which they say are currently on track to roll out at the end of July I’ll cover off these aspects before going into the fare changes.…
A brief CRL history in cartoons
It’s taken some time but last week the government finally came around to starting the City Rail Link in 2018. In the end they were effectively forced into the position as they could no longer ignore the rapidly increasing ridership .…
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