Midweek Reading 20 June 2018
There were a couple of news articles that caught my attention over the weekend.
Public Transport in Christchurch
The Press ran a great piece on Saturday about the trade-off between driving and public transport.
Commuting by bus could save Christchurch drivers about $7500 a year, but mean spending an extra two weeks in traffic.…
93 Comments Guest Post: Co-Housing Part One
This is a guest post by Biddy Livesey who is a housing policy analyst, researcher, and future resident of Cohaus. Part One: Introduction to collective housing development: Cohousing
Our cities are changing. The cost of land is increasing, the way we move around is evolving, and our lives are different to the lives our parents and grandparents led.…
Cycling is on the rise
Every year Auckland Transport have an independent company survey Aucklanders about walking and cycling. They’ve just released the 2018 numbers and they’re fantastic. In total 1,459 took part in this year’s survey and are said to be representative of the Auckland population by age, gender and location.…
Victoria Quarter walking & cycling improvements coming
The Victoria Quarter in the western city centre is an area that is rapidly developing and will be home to thousands more residents in the coming years. Yet despite this, there had been little planned to improve the appalling state of the pedestrian environment to support those residents.…
Flashback Saturday – Cycling: the benefits of complete networks
Every weekend we dig into the archives. This post by Peter was published in October 2014.
A group of New Zealand researchers recently published an excellent paper on the costs and benefits of investing in a complete cycle network and safe street design.…
Guest Post: A Letter to Shane Ellison – CEO of Auckland Transport
This is a Guest Post by Lance Wiggs. It first appeared here and is republished with permission.
Dear Shane
You’ve begun your role as the Chief Executive Officer of Auckland Transport at a moment of crisis, with hundreds of Auckland families coping with the death of their loved ones on the city’s roads every year.…
What does PT look like in a decade, by the numbers
Auckland was once considered a case study of what not to do with transport. Our singular focus on motorway building with almost no attention towards improving public transport saw PT usage rates in the region plummet before starting to recover in the mid-90’s.…
What would you need to do to fix Albany?
So the Auckland Plan has been adopted and Albany has been confirmed as a “node“, alongside Manukau and Westgate. This begs the question of what we might need to do to Albany, for it to actually fulfil its potential? This job is not made easy by the worst street layout of any major centre in Auckland: Let’s run through the problems we are trying to fix here: We have a university campus but it’s on the complete opposite side of the centre to our rapid transit station.…
AT’s Car Park Buildings – The Fiasco of the Proposed Takapuna Gasometer Car Park?
This is another guest post from reader taka-ite. You can read his first one on Manukau’s Ronwood Ave carpark here.
The Writer
The writer has been a resident of Takapuna for about eight years. He is a fervent proponent of intensification and is not worried that some of it might occur in his backyard.…
Fare evasion enforcement cranking up a gear
Auckland Transport have announced that from next week, enforcement on fare evaders will be cranked up a gear.
From 18 June, Transport Officers can issue infringement notices to passengers who fail to tag on with their AT HOP card or buy a ticket to use public transport.…
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