ATs 2023-2031 Public Transport Plan
Auckland Transport have launched consultation for their Regional Public Transport Plan (RPTP). The RPTP is an important statutory document that lays out how public transport will develop and operate in the region. It includes Auckland Transport’s vision, goals, policies, plans for PT as well as a description for all services they intend to run and the frequencies they will run at.…
57 Comments The Bicycle as Climate Hope
This is a guest post from Robert McLachlan a Cycling Action Network board member and a professor at Massey University. It originally appeared here.
What role can cycling play in Aotearoa’s climate action? This question tends to prompt two extreme responses that are so far apart as to seem contradictory.…
Weekly Roundup 13-July-2023
Tomorrow we celebrate Matariki so we’re doing the roundup a day early this week. The Week in Greater Auckland On Monday, Matt celebrated how the Western line is back to full dual-track operation around Maungawhau Station but how it also highlights we still have a lot to do to speed up our trains.…
Con Job: AT’s Connected Communities debacle
Auckland Transport recently cancelled Connected Communities (aka ConCom), a flagship programme launched in 2018 that was intended to deliver walking, cycling, public transport and safety improvements along 12 key corridors in the region.
These weren’t going to come cheaply, with AT budgeting to spend about $100 million per corridor.…
The latest bus strike
After a particularly difficult year, parts of our public transport network are finally starting to recover as more and more bus drivers arrive from overseas.
Just over a week ago Auckland Transport said:
Auckland’s bus driver shortage is now below 170, down from a peak of 570 at the end of last year.…
Western Line is double tracked again
Today marks the latest milestone for the City Rail Link with the Western Line returning to dual line running.
City Rail Link Ltd, Link Alliance, Auckland Transport, and KiwiRail are excited to announce that on Monday 10th July the Western Line will return to dual line running.…
Weekly Roundup 7-July-2023
Welcome to the first Friday in July; a bit of a midwinter breather with school holidays and Matariki around the corner. Here’s our latest roundup of some of the stories that caught our eye this week – with a strong focus on good vibes, to help get us through the darkest bit of the year.…
Government encourages illegal parking
A few weeks ago, I wrote about how it’s time to update parking fines. The maximum fines allowed are defined in legislation and are so outdated that they’ve been unchanged for nearly a quarter of a century.
Because infringements are set at a national level, the existing low level of fines is particularly bad for cities like Auckland where the demand for parking and the impact of inconsiderate parking is much higher.…
The inter-regional rail inquiry report
Last year Parliament’s Transport and Infrastructure Select Committee held an enquiry into the future of inter-regional passenger rail in NZ. You can read our post about it here, and our submission here.
Yesterday they released their findings on it. In total the inquiry received 1,752 written submissions and of that, 97 percent expressed support for new inter-regional passenger rail services. …
Liberating a Lane stacks up
Trying to get across the harbour by bike or on foot has been a long and frustrating saga. In recent years we’ve seen the citizen-led Skypath proposal get all the way to resource consent in 2016, only to be replaced in 2019 by a Waka Kotahi concept for a walking-cycling addition to the city-side of the bridge (which turned out to be unbuildable)… followed in 2021 by an out-of-the-blue proposal for a dedicated walking and cycling bridge (which was quickly shelved after unfavourable coverage about the cost).…
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