CRL progress – Oct-17
There have been a number of updates recently from City Rail Link Limited (CRLL) showing some of great progress of the city’s highest priority transport project.
Outside Britomart, the path of the tunnels through the Commercial Bay development has become increasingly visible with walls starting to be formed.…
31 Comments AT to fix HOP top up issue and more
Following on the recently raised issue of online HOP top ups disappearing if customers don’t tag on within 60 days, last week Mayor Phil Goff announced Auckland Transport were making changes.
Mayor Phil Goff has welcomed changes, made at his request, to the Auckland Transport (AT) HOP card refund system.…
Sunday reading 8 October 2017
Welcome back to Sunday reading. This week, I wanted to lead off with a couple of pieces about bus networks – what works and what doesn’t.
First, three transport analysts have published an important research paper on patronage outcomes from transfer-friendly networks: “How network structure can boost and shape the demand for bus transit“.…
Houston, we have a problem
This is a Guest Post by Wellington Architect and regular reader Guy Marriage
For quite some time now, Demographia has been touting Houston, Texas, as the way forward for New Zealand, and especially Auckland, to copy their stunningly low housing construction costs.…
Development update: October 2017
Patrick’s great post on Hamilton the other day prompted me to take a closer look at Hamilton for this Development Update. Like its “Golden Triangle” buddies Auckland and Tauranga, Hamilton is growing at a rate of knots. Let’s hope we can get even better connections between the three with Regional Rapid Rail.…
Will the Eastern Busway ever get built?
The Auckland Manukau Eastern Transport Initiative (AMETI), or the Eastern Busway as AT now call it, has rightfully been listed as one of Auckland’s highest priority projects for around a decade. It was listed as the second most important transport project in the region in the 30-year Auckland Plan and has been one of the top items in every local and central government transport plan or policy since, including recent election promises.…
All cycleways lead to Glen Innes Town Centre…
This is a cross post from our friends at Bike Auckland
…at least, they do in this current consultation by Auckland Transport, which focuses on making it much easier and safer to ride between the surrounding areas of Stonefields, St John and Point England to Glen Innes.…
What’s going wrong with the RoNS?
If once is a mistake and twice is a coincidence, by the time you get to four significant issues it’s indicative of a worrying trend.
Following a series of serious issues on the government’s flagship Roads of National Significance projects, I wonder if questions need to be asked of whether the NZTA have enough oversight over their processes and whether we’re being well served by the having the organisation act as both poacher and gamekeeper of transport funding.…
Tourist trains from Southland to Northland?
This post is a news roundup and a few musings on the tourist trains in New Zealand.
Readers might not realise but we actually have three long distance train routes in New Zealand: The Northern Explorer between Auckland and Wellington, the Costal Pacific between Picton and Christchurch (currently suspended due to the Kaikoura earthquake), and the Trans Alpine from Christchurch to Greymouth across the Southern Alps.…
Event: How to Fast-Track a Bike Network
Interested in making Auckland better for bikes and looking for something to do after work tomorrow? Bike Auckland has just the event for you. It sounds almost too good to be true: a Canadian city the size of Auckland is creating a full-scale downtown network of protected cycleways, virtually overnight – and all in one go!…
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