Driverless cars, sprawl and density
This is a guest post from reader Frank McRae The emergence of driverless vehicle technology has created much excitement, and speculation about how these vehicles will affect the development of cities. A recent article in the Wall Street Journal claimed that a major consequence of driverless vehicles will be the outward sprawl of cities (Driverless cars to fuel suburban sprawl):
Here is the weirdest thing about this hypothetical future: where you live….you…
49 Comments Sunday reading 25 September 2016.
Hello, and welcome back to Sunday Reading. Here are a collection of articles, videos and commentary I found interesting over the week. Please add your own links in the comments section.
Here is a good article on the illogic of sprawl from a fiscal standpoint.…
September 16 AT Board Meeting
The monthly Auckland Transport Board meeting is on again next week so I’ve take a read through the main reports to pull out the bits that interest me.
Closed Session Agenda
Some of my thoughts about them in italics.
Items for Approval/Decision CRL – PTA & QS Contracts
Road Stopping
Execution of Deed of Lease of Land
Route Protection for Roading Projects
CPO – Surrender of LRT Easements – Britomart was designed so it could also have light rail but our existing network has been too successful so is not a possibilty now
Transport for Future Urban Growth (TFUG) Programme Business Case – Business cases are now needed to support all of the projects needed to support the sprawl enabled as part of the Unitary Plan
AT designations for the Unitary Plan Items for Noting Deep Dive – Rail Infrastructure
MRT/Light Rail Update – I see AT are already using the Mass Rapid Transit name from ATAP
Rail Development
Bus Services March Capacity – A hint about what this is later in the post.…
Development update: September 2016
This will be the last “development update” post for a while, as I’ll be off on holiday for a month. The RCG Development Tracker has just been updated and I’ll get back onto things in November. Oh, and one of the updates is that I’ve added in the Northern Busway and (proposed) AMETI busway.…
August-2016 Patronage
Auckland’s public transport patronage results for August are now available and there are some decent numbers on show. This was partially expected thanks to there being two extra business days in August this year compared to August last year but even accounting for that, numbers are up.…
IPENZ Transport Careers Evening
Are you passionate about cities? Interested in transport? Want to find out about potential careers in the transport industry?
Then come along to the IPENZ Transportation Careers evening. Come listen to speakers from a broad range of backgrounds talk about how they fell into a career in transport.…
Postcard from Bogota
Following a few days in Mexico City, I’ve had the pleasure of staying a week in Bogota, Colombia. Bogota is both the federal capital and the capital of Cundinamarca state, and while it probably doesn’t yet figure as a world capital of culture or clout, it certainly is a thriving mega city of regional importance.…
Time to do K Rd station properly
Last week we had two important announcements with the Government finally confirming they’ll pay for half of the City Rail Link (CRL) and the Auckland Transport Alignment Project (ATAP) finally seeing the council and government aligned on the future of transport in Auckland, including agreeing on the need in the future for a number of big PT investments. …
Giving the Expressway a Run for its Money – Tilt Trains?
For a long time I have been fascinated with Tilt trains, I have now decided to write a post about them. For those that don’t know a tilting train is a train that is designed to tilt with the curve as banking around it.…
Should we spend more on infrastructure… or less?
The Auckland Transport Alignment Project (ATAP) report, which was released last week, identified the need to spend more money on transport infrastructure in Auckland. ATAP estimates that we need to spend $24 billion on new transport infrastructure over the next decade, around $4 billion of which would not be funded by current transport budgets.…
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