Is road pricing a short-term funding solution?
Last week Henderson-Massey Local Board Chair Shane Henderson (yep, great name for the role) highlighted a key issue with those criticising the proposed fuel taxes I also discussed last week. Seeing complaining about fuel taxes, but I haven't seen a single alternative suggestion.…
160 Comments Flashback Saturday: “The end of Auckland’s old growth model”
Every Saturday we dig into the archives for an interesting read. This post was originally published in May 2016.
The New Zealand Council for Infrastructure Development’s public shark-jumping exercise the other week got me thinking. While their flagship policy of a new megabillion eastern tunnel project is a bit mad, their report does a reasonable job of diagnosing one of the core problems facing Auckland.…
PT is just too slow
Tomorrow, Auckland Transport will formally open the Manukau Bus Station, followed by a public open day from 10am-2pm. The station itself looks great but I have long had some serious concerns about its functional design. It feels like it was designed by people who don’t use or understand how PT works.…
Fuel Taxes
Fuel taxes have been in the news a lot lately with both the proposed Regional Fuel Tax in Auckland and the nationwide increase in fuel excise duty as part of the new Government Policy Statement. As such, there has been a lot of discussion about the positives and negatives of fuel taxes as a way of raising money for transport projects.…
Great Housing Opportunity – the Eastern Motorway Corridor
Have you ever wondered why the land right next to Glen Innes station has not been developed? Land that would make a perfect transit orientated development opportunity with the Eastern Line meaning an under 15min train ride with great views of the basin to the City, as well as next to the partially completed and future Glen Innes to Tamaki Drive Shared Path.…
The new Government Policy Statement on Transport for 2018
I couldn’t help but think of Joe Biden’s phrase “Don’t tell me what you value, show me your budget, and I’ll tell you what you value” following the release yesterday of the governments draft Government Policy Statement on Land Transport for 2018-28 (GPS).…
Regional Rapid Rail – Hamilton Central Station
Last year we launched the Regional Rapid Rail concept, a staged approach to an inter-regional rail network in the upper North Island. The idea has proven popular and now forms part of the government’s transport plans.
As you can see in the map below, Hamilton forms the heart of the Regional Rapid Rail network, and it will be important to the success of the whole concept that we get Hamilton right.…
Northern Busway turns 10
A recent newsletter from Auckland Transport highlighted that we missed an important anniversary. The Northern Busway turned 10 years old. The busway was officially opened by then Prime Minister Helen Clark on 2 February 2008. It was built by Transit NZ (now NZTA) and at the time it cost about $210 million to build with another $84 million coming from the North Shore City Council for the stations.…
Flashback Monday: Arguing for sprawl with “strategic misrepresentations”
We normally have “flashback” posts on Saturdays, but as it’s a public holiday here’s another treat from the archives. This post by Peter Nunns was published in December 2014.
A number of recent posts have taken a look at some of the “strategic misrepresentations” that people have used to argue for a sprawled-out, roads-focused Auckland.…
Auckland to trial Shared Mobility Macrotransit
NZTA and the Ministry of Transport have announced a region wide pilot of a revolutionary new transport concept known as Shared Mobility Macrotransit.
The new system, known as ShaMM, integrates big data and predictive network optimisation to deliver a network of transit connectivity operating a regionwide web of trunk and node mobility services.…
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