Will Free Public Transport help achieve our goals?
Mode-shift, getting people out of their cars and using public transport or active modes for more of their trips, is at the core of our various plans and strategies to address climate change, reduce the impacts of congestion and generally improve liveability of the city.…
74 Comments The costs and trade-offs of free public transport in Auckland
One perennial discussion in transport circles is whether we shouldn’t just do away with public transport fares completely and make the whole network free of charge. Why not fully subsidise the network as a public service using public monies as we do with most education, healthcare and other social benefits?…
Free Public Transport?
A rather interesting discussion has emerged in the comments thread on my recent post “Speeding Up Public Transport” over whether there is an argument out there for making public transport free. This came about due to a comment by “Chris N“, questioning whether all the fuss, expense and delays caused by having a ticketing system were actually worth it.…
Dangling Transport Solutions
Cable Cars, Gondolas, Ropeways and Aerial Trams are all names for essentially the same technology and the world’s biggest maker of them are here to sell them as an public transport solution. Stuff reports:
Austrian cable car company Doppelmayr has launched its case for adding aerial cable cars to New Zealand’s urban transport mix at an event hosted by the Auckland Chamber of Commerce on Wednesday.…
2023 Election Transport Policies
We’re only a couple of days away from the election so here’s a quick recap of the key aspects of transport polices of various parties.
National and Labour
We covered both National’s and Labour’s transport policies more in depth earlier, and both are strikingly similar.…
Untangling South East Queensland’s Public Transport
This is a cross post Adventures in Transitland by Darren Davis. I recently visited Brisbane and South East Queensland and came away both impressed while also pondering some key changes to make public transport even better in the region. Here goes with my take on things.…
City Centre Transport Update – July-23
Last week Auckland Transport gave an update to the council’s Transport and Infrastructure Committee on city centre transport operations. You can watch the presentation here, along with questions from Councillors, it’s just under 30 minutes long. There were a few things that stood out (including from the attached presentations).…
A miracle pill for our transport ills
This is a guest post by accessibility and sustainable transport advocate Tim Adriaansen It originally appeared here. A friend calls you and asks for your help.
They tell you that while out and about nearby, they slipped over and landed arms-first.…
Flashback Saturday: A Congestion Free Network
With 2022 drawing to a close, expect us to take it easy over the next couple of weeks. We will also look back at 2022 as a whole and forward to what 2023 may have to offer. For today we have dug into the archives and found a post that was originally published in July 2013.…
Flashback Saturday: Why AWHC is the stupidest transport project ever
Most weekends we dig into the archive. Because AWHC is back in the news, we have brought out a post first published almost exactly a decade ago in December 2012.
In the fallout from the release of the City Centre Future Access Study last Thursday and the government’s rather bizarre response to it, for some reason there seems to have been renewed discussion about the Additional Waitemata Harbour Crossing (AWHC) project.…
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