Safer streets around schools: have your say by 28 August
This is a cross-post from our friends at Bike Auckland, with an intro by Fiain d’Leafy, their Chief Biking Officer. Feedback on AT’s current tranche of proposed safe speeds is open until Monday 28 August. This post explains why it’s important to take a moment to add your voice, and how to speak up for safer speeds around schools.…
17 Comments Light Rail’s Latest Plans for Onehunga and Mangere Town Centre
A few months ago, Auckland Light Rail (ALR) consulted on how the project might pass through Onehunga and Mangere Town Centre – the former included an absurd proposal to use the Avondale Southdown heavy rail corridor. They released the results of the consultation back in June and they’ve now released their recommended options.…
AT Pulls the Parking Lever
Yesterday Auckland Transport announced that they’d discovered they can change parking prices across the region.
From 28 August new hourly rates will apply for on-street parking and parking at Auckland Transport-managed parking buildings across the region, Auckland Transport says.
The revised parking charges from next Monday are the first region-wide changes to parking charges in over a decade – since Auckland Transport was formed in November 2010.…
Ferry Bad News
Like every other form of public transport in Auckland over the last year and a half, ferry users have had to deal with unreliability. As with buses, the issue has been a lack of staff – and filling those roles has been harder as they weren’t covered by the same immigration setting changes that helped fix the bus driver shortage, plus it takes longer to train people to fill those roles.…
Weekly Roundup 18-August-2023
Welcome to Friday. Here’s our roundup of some of the articles that caught our eye recently. Note we’re saving a few stories for posts next week, so if there’s something you think is missing today, stay tuned…
Today’s header image: the rad double rainbow from the weekend, courtesy of Scott Caldwell. …
The Buses Are Fixed
Some good news from Auckland Transport yesterday that the bus driver shortage is officially over.
At the peak of the driver shortage just eight months ago, Auckland was 578 drivers short.
Auckland now has three more bus drivers than the required 2,306 to operate Auckland’s buses.…
Changing Auckland’s “Complex Transport Ecosystem”
On Thursday, Mayor Wayne Brown will ask the council’s Transport and Infrastructure committee to push for a legislative change in the way transport strategy is delivered in Auckland by giving Auckland Council itself a bigger say. The Mayor also wants Auckland to have the ability to make other key regulatory decisions around transport, such as the ability to set its own parking fines.…
August’s Important Regional Consultations
There are a few important consultations on at the moment that are worth highlighting as some close this week, including one today. Local Board Plans – feedback closing 4pm today
Auckland Council are consulting on three-year plans for each local board.…
The Opportunity Cost of Auckland’s “Big Digs”
On Monday, I posted about Labour’s harbour crossing boondoggle. Prime Minister Chris Hipkins called it a “bold” project, but really it represents a twenty year delay to building the rest of Auckland’s Rapid Transit Network.
I also noted on Monday that for the combined cost of the project and the City Centre to Mangere light rail project, you could build about 300km of surface-running light rail all over the region.…
Rail Safety and closing level crossings
It’s rail safety week – and as part of their latest safety campaign, Kiwirail have highlighted just how many collisions and near misses there are:
In the year to 30 June, 40 vehicles or people collided with trains across the national rail network and there were 305 near misses.…
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