ATAP 2.0 – first details look great
Auckland’s next decade of transport is looking fantastic with latest version of the Auckland Transport Alignment Project just released by Transport Minister Phil Twyford and Mayor Phil Goff. We’ll have some more complete analysis but here are some of the highlights: It’s a fully funded, $28 billion package over the coming decade.…
135 Comments Light Rail is not really about the Airport
There’s been plenty of talk about light rail in the media and why we shouldn’t build it. So we thought we’d offer a different point of view. On Tuesday, the Herald published the below piece from me about it. There’s a lot more that I would have or could have said if it weren’t for word limit.…
How should smarter pricing affect business cases?
Through the Auckland Transport Alignment Project (ATAP), the former government and Council agreed that road pricing (which it called “smarter transport pricing” needs to be a key part of Auckland’s transport future. The new government, although occasionally sceptical about pricing, has continued investigation into it as part of the Congestion Question project.…
Cheaper Fares or Better Services?
The draft Government Policy Statement clearly indicates that the Government are keen on encouraging more people to use public transport. In the release for the GPS they state this about the 46% increase in funding for PT: This will support an expansion in public transport networks.…
The Politics of Road Safety
This is a guest post from Bevan Woodward. He is the project director for SkyPath and spokesperson for Movement, an alliance of national organisations seeking safe journeys for active transport users. [email protected] Last week Julie Anne Genter released an evaluation report on the previous Government’s road safety strategy.…
Continuous improvement needed to drive ridership
Public Transport in Auckland has improved remarkably over the last few decades. The number of annual boardings have almost tripled from a low of just 33 million to 92 million today, well ahead of population growth and most of that in the last decade.…
Flashback Sunday: How rail was saved in Auckland
Every weekend we dig into the archives. This post by Matt was originally published in April 2014.
Next Monday will be a historic day for transport in Auckland as for the first time the city will have electric trains carrying fare paying passengers.…
Improving Wellington’s Rail Network Part 4
In the previous post, I wrote about how we could improve the Wellington rail network including how we could possibly make the Melling line fit better for Wellington from a network operations perspective
In this last post for this series, I propose an alternative solution which is making the Melling line more useful.…
Covering the news, Motorways and Safety
There were a couple of news items yesterday that kept popping up that I want to discuss
Four lanes to Whangarei
Last year during the election campaign, National’s transport policy could probably best be summed up by this: Despite being empty promises, it’s a policy that’s proving to be like a forest fire that’s stubborn to put out, with hot spots unexpectedly flaring back up again from time to time.…
What’s changing in the next batch of trains
Our electric trains have been fantastic and successful addition to the city. More successful than officials predicted, helping to drive ridership on trains to double in four years to 20 million trips annually. They’ve been so successful that many services now have capacity constraints.…
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