Making Pedestrian Level Crossings Safer
A couple of months ago Auckland Transport posted a video of a near miss near Mt Eden station. It seems fairly easy to conclude from the video that the primary responsibility for this near fatal accident lies with the pedestrian. AT emphasised this in the accompanying press release:
The near miss happened when the woman stepped out at a crossing despite the warning bells and lights operating…
“We’ve checked the footage of this morning’s incident and we can see the woman checked to her right before crossing but not to her left and that’s where the train was coming from.…
82 Comments Improving Stations – Part 2: Layout
At the beginning of the month I started a series looking at how we can improve our train stations, beginning with the lack of shelter. I started this after Auckland Transport sent out a survey titled “Help us improve train stations“ but with a focus on how they could generate more money from passengers through initiatives such as selling advertising, or snacks from vending machines.…
The importance PT hubs is starting to be understood in Auckland
As Auckland’s public transport has improved over the last 10-15 years, so too has the discussion around its value, both to transport and urban form. Nowhere is more representative of that change than Britomart. Both the station and surrounding development have transformed a once unloved area of town into one of the most desirable locations in the city.…
ATs new Statement of Intent
Every year Auckland Transport release a Statement of Intent (SOI), which is a document essentially saying what the organisation will be doing over the next three years and how that aligns with council priorities. This is one of the key tools the council has to control AT.…
Three Waters Infrastructure; What does Auckland need? – Part 2 – Water Supply
One the major prerequisites we need to build the houses we need to combat our housing crisis is infrastructure, without it, the development can’t occur. This post is about a highly but often forgotten element of infrastructure Three Waters – Water Supply, Wastewater & Stormwater.…
What the Team NZ win could mean for improving our city
Wahooo, well done Team NZ for once again winning the America’s Cup. It’s exciting not just because we won it, but also because of the potential impact hosting the event could have on progressing a number of important projects in Auckland – assuming it’s hosted in Auckland of course.…
What Kiwirail is investing their budget money in
In the government’s budget last month, they allocated $450 million to Kiwirail over the next two years
$450 million of that funding will be invested in KiwiRail over the next two financial years.
“KiwiRail has achieved significant productivity and efficiency improvements over the past two years, despite the challenges of the November 2016 earthquake and the Midland Line fire,” Mr Bridges says.…
Reviewing the OECD’s economic review
The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, the ‘rich countries club’, conducts an economic survey of its members. They just published their latest (2017) edition for New Zealand, which makes for some interesting reading.
While the OECD’s reviews reflect its own views about what’s going right and wrong in its members’ economies, it sends staff to check out things on the ground.…
Sunday reading 25 June 2017
Welcome back to Sunday reading. It’s been a pretty interesting week in New Zealand politics, if you’ve been reading. But that’s not what this is about, so we’re not going to talk about it.
Here’s a thought-provoking factoid about technological progress, from humanprogress.org:…
Flashback Saturday: “What’s wrong with this picture?”
This post originally appeared in June 2012. Now I’m sure many of you will assume that this post is going to be about the old thing on rails in the middle of this picture but that isn’t what interests me the most about this beautifully framed shot – I just love the separation of the dark shaded foliage on the left from the brightly lit trees on the other side by that narrow stream of sky.…
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