Staging the Northwestern
As described here, Auckland is in the middle of a multi-decade process of retro-fitting a Strategic Rapid Transit Network (RTN) to the city.
The process used to date for this is best described as incremental. All of our current RTN began very much below the ideal standard but have been more-or less constantly improved since.…
106 Comments A history of Harbour Crossing Options
Talk about an additional harbour crossing has existed for decades. With this post I thought I’d look at some of the many proposals that have existed over the years.
Presumably the first discussions about building a new crossing happened shortly after the existing bridge opened in 1959.…
Completing the RTN
As I state in this recent article at The Spinoff I see Auckland as around half way through a roughly 30 year long programme to retro-fit a complete Rapid Transit Network to itself.
Cities are of course never finished, and nor are their transport systems, but at the end of this period Auckland will have something new and powerful in its very structure: A complete city-wide top tier integrated Strategic Transit Network fed and supported by the Frequent Network below it: A complementary mirror to the city’s motorway and arterial road networks.…
Flashback Saturday: Auckland’s stupidly complex bus system
Every weekend we dig into the archives. This post was first published in May 2011.
Over the past week I’ve sat at the bus stop outside the hospital waiting for a fair few buses – either to head into town or to catch the Link bus back to Ponsonby.…
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