Western Victoria Quarter Part 2: Cook Street and Motorway Severance
This is a Guest Post by David R, and the second of a series about the need to improve the Western Victoria Quarter. Part 1 can be found here.
Victoria Quarter suffers for the Southern Motorway, and this alignment exists to serve the ego of Mayor John Allum:
This lack of foresight and common sense was compounded by Auckland city fathers led by former Mayor Sir John Allum, chairman of the bridge authority.…
31 Comments Removing the Rural Urban Boundary is a dumb idea
The new Minister of Transport, Housing and Urban Development – Phil Twyford – has certainly hit the ground running across his portfolios. But in one area it seems as though he’s either poorly informed or is potentially embarking on a pretty dumb and unnecessary path.…
The Disappearing Cycleway II – A Devonport Tale
This is a cross post from our good friends over at Bike Auckland.
Just in time for Halloween, we have a dark and terrifying tale for you. Remember Victoria St and Calliope Road? This Devonport intersection is an often busy and rather tricky one, with a sharp bend, a downhill, and a pedestrian crossing to a school. …
A new Auckland Plan is progressing – but it’s a bit bland
The Auckland Plan is the region’s over-arching strategic document to shape the way Auckland grows over the next 30 years. The original plan was generally pretty good – bold and aspirational about Auckland’s role in the world and built around the dearly departed vision of making Auckland the world’s most liveable city.…
Fair Pay for Bus Drivers – Jacinda Ardern
On the Q+A with Corin Dann the other day Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern was asked questions regarding Industrial Relations Reform which included a discussion on fair pay for bus drivers
CORIN What about industrial relations reform? Will there be reform that brings in, effectively, a modern version of national awards?…
City Boulevard, ’t Goylaan, Utrecht
Hey everyone, I’ve seen the future of transportation in cities and it has nothing to do with driverless cars, connected vehicles or other unproven technology. Instead, it consists of streets that are great places to live, cycle, and walk. The transportation future we want looks like Utrecht.…
Are tendering processes really to blame for drivers wages?
Yesterday I a piece on Radio NZ caught my attention about Labour wanting to change how public transport is tendered.
A much-criticised way of choosing companies to run bus or train services look set to be axed. Unions argue the competition pushes down wages and conditions and the new Minister of Transport Phil Twyford agrees.…
Aug and Sep-17 Ridership
Recently Auckland Transport celebrated hitting the milestone of 90 million trips annually. While we knew that high level number, we hadn’t talked more specifically about ridership in August or September as the numbers hadn’t been published. That and after they were things got a bit hectic around here.…
Rethinking Lincoln Road
One of the major upcoming projects for Auckland is an upgrade of Lincoln Rd. Lincoln Rd, a major arterial route in West Auckland between Henderson and the Northwestern Motorway, has been hard done by over the years, basically turned into a large onramp to SH16.…
Books for buses: share what you’re reading
Reader JDELH had a good suggestion in the comments section the other day: I’ve no doubt a post on “great bus reading books” would also be popular
As I’ve written before, books and public transport complement each other quite nicely. I get quite a lot of reading done while commuting on the bus.…
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