Two public talks in Wellington
I’m down in Wellington on Friday to give a few talks on urban planning and transport economics. If any of our Wellington-based readers are interested, I’d encourage you to come along and hear what we have to say. And please say hi afterwards!…
3 Comments Victoria St Cycleway Consultation
Last week, Auckland Transport launched consultation for the western section of the midtown cycleway as part of the Government’s Urban Cycleway Programme. It will run along Victoria St from Beaumont St through to Hobson St. Along the way it will link in the Nelson St cycleway and the under-construction Franklin Rd cycle lanes.…
Government to finally build more houses, but is it enough?
The government have finally announced they’ll build some more houses in Auckland. They say 34,000 will be built over a decade on government owned land but that number also includes 8,300 old houses that will be demolished and thousands more that were already announced or underway, such as at Hobsonville, Northcote and Tamaki.…
How are children and youth faring under the AT HOP system?
This is a guest post by reader Heidi O’Callahan Children are walking and using public transport today, but what will they do as they learn to drive and become adults? Have we provided a user-friendly public transport system that enables young people to avoid the dependence on a private car?…
Bus Back Map
While heading out for lunch at work yesterday I noticed this bus parked up, or more specifically I noticed the ad on the back of it. What interested me was not the ad itself but the idea behind it, of putting a metro map on the bus itself.…
Kiwirail de-electrification decision questioned
Late last year, Kiwirail announced they would stop running electric trains through the Central North Island in favour of just using diesel trains, a decision that seems absurd.
On Friday, OneNews reported on leaked documents suggesting the analysis that lead to that decision was deeply flawed.…
Urban Schools an idea whose time has come
On the weekend our two main political parties held conferences where they started to discuss ideas and policy for the upcoming election. I certainly wasn’t following events closely but I one discussion that caught my attention was about schools.
On Saturday it was revealed that the government are looking at setting up urban schools as a tool to help deal with Auckland’s growth.…
The great Auckland turnaround story
Public transport patronage is falling in North America, and it’s worrying people.
As a February 2017 CityLab article shows, almost every city in the United States is experiencing falling public transport patronage. While transport experts aren’t sure exactly why it’s happening, everyone is concerned:
New York City’s subway system has posted its first dip in ridership since 2009, according to data from the Metropolitan Transportation Authority.…
Sunday reading 14 May 2017
Hi and welcome back to Sunday Reading. Here’s a bunch of links we’ve compiled over the week. Please add your links in the comments section.
Separated cycleways are safer according to new research by Ralph Buehler and John Pucher. The results are unsurprising but fill a research gap in countries lagging behind in the development of quality cycleway networks.…
Flashback Saturday: Local roads getting screwed over
This post originally appeared in May 2012.
NZTA is funded from petrol tax and road user charges, which obviously comes from cars, trucks, vans and buses using fuel (or travelling kilometres) along our roading network. The theory is that this creates a relatively ‘user pays’ situation, with money raised from road users being spent on projects that benefit road users (including public transport, walking and cycling, which obviously reduce the number of cars that would otherwise be on the road).…
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