Dec-19 Ridership
I’ve been bit caught up in other posts so have finally managed to get around to the PT and cycling stats from December. Public Transport
Every year December and January duke it out for the wooden spoon of ridership as the summer holidays see the number of boardings drop dramatically.…
32 Comments The Human Right to Housing
All New Zealanders have the human right to adequate housing. It might be “the best kept secret” in the country, but this right has been endorsed by our governments for 70 years, and it’s one of the key pillars for Greater Auckland’s “20/20 Vision on Housing” series.…
Flashback Saturday: Stu Donovan on housing
Every weekend we dig into the archives. This ‘Flashback Saturday’ is a bit different from our usual, and as part of our “20/20 Vision on Housing” programme we’re doing a retrospective on ex-blogger Stu Donovan’s housing posts.
Stu is an economist and engineer, now living overseas.…
Weekly Roundup – 14-Feb-20
Here’s the weekly roundup for this week. Train Disruption
The big news this week has been the train disruption caused by an unprecedented fire at a Kiwirail signal box in Newmarket. The surprising thing is the scale of the disruption and that it took till Thursday Morning to fix.…
Is the busway extension on the right side at Albany?
Two weeks ago in the weekly roundup post I made this comment in relation to the Northern Busway extension following a flyover video of the Northern Corridor project.
I also confess I still don’t get the point of the busway bridge across the motorway north of Albany which will result in buses doubling back.…
Night Train
This post is by Paul Callister and Heidi O’Callahan
In rail’s heyday, holiday times were hectic. On Christmas Eve in 1938, 16 express trains (including eight bound for Auckland) swept more than 11,000 travellers out of Wellington in a single day. …
Feb-20 AT Board Meeting
Today is first Auckland Transport board meeting of the year and it’s an important one as it’s also the first one with new chair Adrienne Young-Cooper as well as board member Darren Linton.
As usual, I’ve looked through the reports publicly available and here are some of the things that caught my attention.…
20/20 Vision on Housing
Over the years, Greater Auckland has become well-known for its work on transport. We’ve also published some fantastic articles on housing, but these have tended to be one-offs; we haven’t had a clear editorial direction on housing.*
In transport, we carved out a unique position saying constructive, evidence-based things that others in New Zealand weren’t saying, based on international best practise.…
Weekly Roundup – 7-Feb-20
It may be a shorter week than normal but there’s been a heap of news. Here’s some of the things you may have missed. PT self-promotion
In a bit of self-promotion about the rise in public transport usage, Auckland Transport revealed that NX2 services will be increased and extended to the Hibiscus Coast.…
Studying cities in Amsterdam
This is a guest post by former blogger, Stuart Donovan. TL; DR: If you want to learn more about cities, then here are two courses that run regularly in Amsterdam. Applications for the 2020 intake close in the next 2-3 months.…
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