Sunday reading 31 December 2017
Welcome back to the last Sunday Reading of the year. In case you missed it, Matt wrapped up the 2017 year with great posts: Part 1 Transit, Part 2 Walking and Cycling, and Part 3 Roads.
Here is a newly organised catalog of London’s unbuilt motorway “Ringways” proposed in the 1970’s.…
7 Comments 2017 – A Year in Review Part 4 – Everything Else
This is part 4 of our series wrapping up the key news and events of the year. You can see Part 1 on PT here
Part 2 on Walking & Cycling here
Part 3 on Roads In this part, I’m going to look at everything else.…
2017 – A Year in Review Part 3 – Roads
This is part 2 of our series wrapping up the key news and events of the year. You can see Part 1 on PT here
Part 2 on Walking & Cycling here In this part, I’m going to look at roads.…
2017 – A Year in Review Part 2 – Walking and Cycling
This is part 2 of our series wrapping up the key news and events of the year. You can see Part 1 on PT here.
In this section I’ll look at walking and cycling. When it comes to our active modes it feels a bit like there’s been a lot of consultation but not a lot of action.…
2017 – A Year in Review Part 1 – PT
With the year drawing to a close, it’s time to reflect on the year and all of the important events that have occurred. Because there’s so much to cover, I’ll be splitting this up over multiple posts, starting with public transport.…
Meri Kirihimete! Please help save our streets this Christmas!
Before you go off on holiday, we need your help to save the new street and town upgrade in Grey Lynn, and bike lanes everywhere….
TAKE 30 SECONDS TO SAVE OUR SAFE STREETS Last year, you and 1200 people like you helped us support making Grey Lynn a calmer, more pleasant place to be.…
Nov-17 Ridership
Auckland Transport have published the ridership results for November and there’s a few interesting points to note.
For the first time since April 2013, for the monthly results, growth on buses was stronger than rail. For November, bus use grew by 7.6% compared to November 2016 while rail was up 4.6%.…
Fixing Shortland Street
Fixing Shortland Street is something that I’ve been thinking about for a while. The issue came up again when my daughter came to visit me at work nearby. She can confidently get around the city by bus and cross awful streets like Dominion Road at Balmoral, but after lunch on Fort Street I asked her not to use the Jean Batten/High Street crossing, but instead go via Queen Street.…
More toll roads raise questions
Yesterday the Herald reported that the NZTA are looking at adding tolls to four roads currently under construction or in planning.
The New Zealand Transport Agency is eyeing up tolls on four uncompleted roads which it says could support their successful opening and smooth the way for user-pays road pricing, documents released under the Official Information Act show.…
How to avoid subsidising sprawl
We are generally supportive of the new government’s direction when it comes to transport, how could we not when many of their key initiatives originally came from us? Furthermore, we’re also supportive of many of their housing initiatives, especially the need to accelerate the delivery of affordable housing in Auckland and looking to build around rapid transit.…
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