Should I leave now? We look at Auckland Traffic Data
This post originally appeared on the site of Sandfield and is by Mustafa Hasanbulli. Sandfield are the wonderful team who developed and maintain the blog for us.
Auckland traffic has always been a hot topic in NZ. There are regular news articles about the woes of Auckland drivers as they face increasingly congested motorways, and it’s always a popular election issue.…
37 Comments Guest Post: Cycling to Freedom
This is a guest post from Lucy, a secondary school student from Carmel College
“For men, the bicycle, in the beginning was merely a new toy, another machine added to the long list of devices they already knew in their work and play.…
The RLTP saga
Last week the Auckland Transport Board approved the final version of the 2018 Regional Land Transport Plan. While the RLTP hasn’t got as much focus as other key transport decisions in recent times, like ATAP and the Regional Fuel Tax, it is the document that forms the heart of the land transport planning process.…
Guest Post: Co-Housing Part Two
This is a guest post by Biddy Livesey who is a housing policy analyst, researcher, and future resident of Cohaus. Post Two – Collective Housing Development in Auckland: Cohaus
In the last post, we discussed the concept of cohousing, and the potential contribution of collective housing development to increasing affordable, high-quality and unique housing in cities such as Auckland.…
City Rail Link visit – behind the covers and under the streets
On Friday, Patrick and I were treated to a tour of the work sites of the City Rail Link. Thanks to Scott, Dale and Glen for showing us around.
Britomart
For most of us, our experience of the works at Britomart the large blue walls at the top of the main stairs, the temporary station building, or the hoardings that surround Lower Queen St.…
Red light cameras finally turned on
Just after we learned about the appalling safety report showing Auckland Transport, Police and other agencies showed “an absence of commitment to improving safety on New Zealand and Auckland’s roads“, we learned that red light cameras Auckland Transport had installed weren’t even working and hadn’t for years.…
New North Shore bus network revealed
In two weeks the new bus network on the isthmus goes live. That’s going to be followed on 30 September by the North Shore network. Last week, Auckland Transport released the final version of what changes we’ll see then – as well as changes to Hibiscus Coast services and the introduction of services from Warkworth.…
Flashback Saturday: Why it’s not possible to build our way out of congestion
Every weekend we dig into the archives. This post by Peter was published in October 2014.
Wired magazine recently published a good, succinct explanation of induced traffic. It’s worth reading in full as it hits upon an incredibly important, often overlooked fact: it’s not possible to eliminate congestion by building more roads.…
Breaking down the RLTP numbers
We were pretty excited back in April when we saw the outcome of the Auckland Transport Alignment Project, which will see significant development of our transport network, and especially our public transport system, over the next decade. That was backed up in May with the release of the draft Regional Land Transport Programme (RLTP) which listed in more detail which projects would be funded over the coming decade.…
Can Auckland lead the world?
Last week I took a look at how public transport ridership in Auckland might grow over the next decade, if it continues current strong growth rates and lines up with the transport modelling predictions in ATAP. On a per capita basis, this would reflect an increase from around 55 annual trips per person at the moment, to around 85.…
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