1975 Auckland Rapid Transit video
Last week I posted an excellent video from the 1980’s looking at the development boom of the time in the city centre. One of our readers later send us a link to another great old video, this time a decade earlier. …
24 Comments Auckland Transport still want Battery Electric Trains
In October plans to purchase battery-powered electric trains (IPEMUs) were scuppered after the NZTA refused to provide their share of the cost of the trains. This was due to election promises by all parties to electrify to Pukekohe sooner than had initially been expected.…
New Rosedale Busway Station to be built
On Friday, Transport Minister Phil Twyford and Mayor Phil Goff, along with Associate Transport Minister Julie Anne Genter and a host of local Councillors and local board members, joined Auckland Transport to announce plans for a new Northern Busway station at Rosedale.…
Sunday reading 10 December 2017
Welcome back to Sunday reading! Here’s a neat post with detailed drawings highlighting the differences between Amsterdam and Copenhagen’s cycleways. It concludes with an appropriate dig on the designs in the UK. Amsterdam vs Copenhagen (part 2), “Amsterdam vs Copenhagen (part 2)“, Nicer cities, liveable places.…
The Council’s next Budget
Last week Mayor Phil Goff released his proposal for the Council’s next 10 year budget. This budget, known as the Long-term Plan, is updated every three years and is probably the most important thing the Council does every term. There are quite a few interesting parts of the proposal, although it still lacks a lot of detail that I assume will come through in the next few weeks as this initial proposal is turned into a draft Plan that will be consulted upon next year.…
Transport Briefings to the new Ministers
Anytime there’s a new government minister, the associated agencies produce a Briefing to the Incoming Minister (BIM) to help them get up to speed. With a change of government that obviously necessitates briefings for all ministers and the briefings given to the new Labour led government were released yesterday.…
No Trains in Auckland Tomorrow
On an average weekday, around 70,000 trips (and growing) are made on Auckland’s rail network. A number that has risen substantially in recent years. If, like me, you rely on a train as part of your commute you need to be aware that trains won’t be running due to workers striking.…
Tauranga’s transport schemozzle
Greetings from Greater Tauranga. We are a newly formed group that aim to have an active voice in transport and land use planning for our city.
This first blog is an overview of the web of agencies, plans and agendas that govern our transport planning and in our view make it nigh on impossible for the bold and integrated planning required to avoid the future that Auckland is now trying to untangle itself from.…
A glimpse at the future of Queen St
Sydney are busy building light rail from the city to the South East with it due to open in 2019. The route takes light rail right down George St, where around 1km of the street will become a transit mall. The hoardings on the first two completed sections of George St have now come down, revealing the new, and vastly improved, street environment.…
Should we get excited about “shared mobility”?
There’s a lot excitement about new transport technologies at the moment, with buzzwords like “shared mobility”, “mobility as a service”, “transport as a service”, “autonomous vehicles” and “connected vehicles” being pinged around like crazy. Many of these developments seem like they could be really useful, but at the same time seem to come with a lot of teething problems.…
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