Auckland’s expensive PT fares
Auckland’s high public transport fares have been highlighted again with the Herald reporting:
Auckland has the third most expensive public transport in the world, according to a report by Deutsche Bank.
In Auckland you will need to shell out US$122.90, or NZ$174.74 for a monthly ticket to get around the city by bus, train and ferry, says the 2017 report.…
64 Comments Act’s crazy harbour crossing isn’t much worse than what NZTA are planning
ACT’s candidate for the Northcote byelection, Stephen Berry, may not have won but caused quite a bit of discussion with his rather crazy motorway plan that we first discussed a few weeks ago. It would have cut a gigantic swathe through the green spaces of the electorate that he supposedly wanted to represent.…
Sunday reading 10 June 2018
Welcome back to Sunday reading. Sorry it’s been a little on and off lately. Here are the interesting things I’ve collected over the last couple of weeks. Please leave your links in the comments section.
There have been a lot of thoughtful tributes to Anthony Bourdain who sadly passed yesterday.…
Flashback Saturday – Location Affordability in New Zealand cities
Every weekend we dig into the archives. This post by Peter was originally published in July 2014.
Several weeks ago I attended the annual New Zealand Association of Economists conference in Auckland. Geoff Cooper, Auckland Council’s Chief Economist, had organised several sessions on urban issues, and as a result there was a lot of excellent discussion of urban issues and Auckland’s housing market.…
Ch-Ch-Changes
Submissions to the Productivity Commission’s Low-emissions economy draft report close today June 8th, here. Arrrg.
There is a great deal that’s really good in the report, but one thing that I feel the Prodcom is missing is the changing nature of our cities, in particular Auckland.…
Will driverless cars make our streets much safer?
One of the great promises of driverless cars is a huge reduction in the number of deaths and serious injuries on our roads. This is because these vehicles will be able to stick to the road rules and react much faster than people can, avoiding the human error that is generally the cause of crashes and their resulting injuries or fatalities:
Superhuman driving skills
Once a computer model is created, then it’s loaded into the car’s brain and hooked up to the rest of the car’s sensors to create real-world model of the car’s environment.…
Development update: June 2018
Here on Greater Auckland, we’ve got the sponsored RCG Development Tracker page which shows hundreds of housing projects across Auckland (and NZ): apartments, terraces, retirement villages etc. It also shows big commercial developments and Auckland’s rapid transit network.
After a great post from Matt the other week, I’ve updated the Development Tracker with the proposed light rail lines along Dominion Rd and out to the airport, and out to the North West.…
Use stadium to fix Auckland’s scar?
It seems every few years the “Auckland needs a city centre stadium” debate rears it’s head again. Most recently this was a few weeks ago after it was revealed the Mayor had pre-feasibility report commissioned by PWC who had identified six potential locations.…
Raining on the Purple
Last week, in the closed session of the AT board meeting there was an item about running pattern of the rail network after completion of the City Rail Link. It sparked a bit of debate about the merits of the purple line.…
Can Albany and Westgate ever be proper “nodes”?
The final version of the Auckland Plan will be adopted by the Council’s Planning Committee tomorrow. The draft version of the plan was consulted on earlier this year, although it didn’t quite get the attention it perhaps deserved because so much of the focus has been on the 10 year budget and the Regional Fuel Tax.…
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