Smarter Buses Series – Pt 2 Town Centres – Mt Eden
In part one of this series, I used the case example of Khyber Pass Rd to show how we could be much smarter about bus priority than simple kerbside bus lanes, I also mentioned how taking the approach of quantity over quality has large opportunity costs beyond just effectiveness and cost.…
18 Comments CRL Feb-18 update – Is it going off the rails?
There’s been a spate of news about the City Rail Link recently and not all of it good.
Bidder pulls out
Late on Tuesday evening, City Rail Link Limited announced that one of the two shortlisted bidders withdrew from the process for the biggest of the contracts, the tunnels and stations from Wyndham to Mt Eden.…
Crosstown Light Rail: Connecting to New Lynn
Recently I wrote a post about the feasibility of a cross-isthmus light rail line. This is shown in red in the map below and essentially extends the light-rail that is proposed along State Highway 20 between Mt Roskill and Onehunga further west towards Avondale.…
Ministry of Transport’s report card makes for grim reading
Last year the Ministry of Transport was subjected to a performance review, the results of which are now out and they don’t make for good reading. Out of the 28 attributes and tasks they were rated on, only in five were they considered ‘well placed’, only the second highest rating.…
Major Cost Blowout for Midtown Bus Solution?
Last year Auckland Transport declared war on the Council over the Victoria Street Linear Park. Just days after being instructed by Council to allow for the future Victoria Street Linear Park, A major part of the City Centre Master Plan and the planned east-west cycling/walking link, AT proposed midtown bus routes that were heavily reliant on Victoria St, thereby preventing the Linear Park.…
Chewing ears: Babies on Public Transport
This is my last post for Greater Auckland. After several years, I think the time has come for me to stop chewing ears.
If I recall correctly, I was originally involved circa 2010-11 when the founder, Joshua Arbury, asked me to help write a few guest posts at a time when he was otherwise occupied.…
Improving the City Centre Now
You might be a bit surprised to learn that one of the major concerns holding us back from making substantial changes in the City Centre to reallocate street space to public transport, walking and cycling is because of the City Rail Link consent conditions.…
Caution needed over trackless trains
In the debate over light rail in Auckland, opposition to it generally falls into two camps that we should build heavy rail instead
that we can just use buses, especially new technology buses. In this post, I want to focus that second camp and particularly on that last part.…
Bike to the Future 2.0 tomorrow
This is a guest post from Leroy Beckett, Auckland Director of Generation Zero
Join us on a bike ride tomorrow to make it clear to politicians, the council and disgruntled protesters that we support (and need!) safe biking infrastructure in Grey Lynn and across Auckland.…
Extensions, Shelters, buses and ferries
This post is a collection of thoughts about a few recent things that have caught my attention.
Penrose platform 3 extension
On Wednesday, AT announced a $1.95 million project to upgrade platform 3 at Penrose. This is the single platform on the Onehunga Branch Line.…
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