Dominion Rd bus lanes to finally be improved
Dominion Rd is one of the city’s busiest and most important bus routes accounting for almost 3 million trips annually. At peak times it already sees many more people on buses than in cars – Auckland Transport saying 23% more. The future of Dominion Rd is for light rail.…
56 Comments The value of rail to New Zealand
For the last few decades we’ve treated rail in New Zealand quite differently to how we treat roads. Rail has been considered a business that needs to pay its way and make a financial profit. Investment in rail has been about supporting that by ‘turning around’ the business.…
What makes a good light-rail route different from a good busway route?
While the “bus versus light-rail” argument over Dominion Road and Airport “mass transit” is now settled, it is inevitable that this argument will come up over and over again as we develop Auckland’s strategic public transport network over the coming years.…
The disappearance of Onzo
About a month ago and with no warning, Auckland’s city centre was suddenly flooded with Onzo’s. Onzo is a dockless bikeshare scheme, the same type that’s been popping up all over the world, although not always with great results. Simon Wilson over at the Spinoff wrote about Onzo here not long after they launched. …
Rethinking the Additional Waitemata Harbour Crossing project
With a new Government, we are able to have a rethink of some of the Transport priorities for Auckland. One of these is the Additional Waitemata Harbour Crossing project.
This project has gone very quiet as of late, since the Auckland Transport Alignment Project clearly demonstrated it was nowhere near the high priority that NZTA had previously suggested, deferring it by around 20 years well into the third decade.…
Lightpath Festival
From our friends at Bike Auckland
Bike Auckland presents the Barfoot & Thompson Lightpath Festival, Saturday 2 December 2017
With Auckland’s beloved pink path Te Ara i Whiti turning two, it’s time for a block party with bells on! Hosted by Bike Auckland, the non-profit organisation working for a better city for people on bikes, the inaugural Barfoot & Thompson Lightpath Festival is a free community celebration that invites the public to enjoy the city’s public spaces in a playful new way.…
CRL progress – Nov-17
City Rail Link Limited (CRLL) are presenting to the Council’s Finance and Performance Committee tomorrow. Their presentation contains a number of updates on the project. First of all there are some important project wide comments.
CRLL is owned by both the government and the council who act as sponsors.…
Updated Central New Network Map
The other day I noticed that the Central New Network Map now due to be rolled out second quarter next year had been updated Some changes I have noticed Instead of having greyed out Northwest services the map has a line called West.…
Twyford to change Govt Policy Statement on Transport
One of the most important ways for the new government to change how we invest in transport is through the Government Policy Statement (GPS). The GPS is produced every three years and sets out the government’s priorities for transport over a 10-year period.…
Move light rail to serve more people?
With the government supporting light rail, hopefully the team/s tasked with the project have now been able to move on from justification to delivery. While the high-level decision has been made, there’s still a lot of detail that needs to be worked out.…
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