Rail timetable improvements from March
Auckland Transport’s CE report for today’s board meeting confirms that increases in train frequency – and the opening of the Manukau station – will occur in March (let’s hope at the very beginning of March to take advantage of the year’s busiest month).…
7 Comments More details about AMETI’s Panmure section
On the weekend there was an open day about AMETI’s Panmure section, outlining to the community some of the most recent design tweaks and providing some confirmation about key elements of the proposal, such as the addition of a bus/cyclist bridge across the Tamaki River, adjacent to the current Panmure bridge.…
Thoughts/questions on Brownlee as Minister
My earlier post today was just a quick note to promote some discussion. I’ve also had the opportunity to have a bit of a think about what this might all mean. Here are a couple of key points made by commenters on the original thread: Matt L pointed out that it’s potentially quite insightful that National have chosen to put such a senior minister in charge of transport.…
Brownlee to be Transport Minister
I am pretty sure this is bad. Very bad.
Discuss.
The only thing I can remember him doing in relation to transport was jumping up in parliament to state he disliked the City Rail Link even more than Steven Joyce.…
Panmure busway & interchange progresses
At last Wednesday’s meeting of Auckland Council transport committee there was an update about progress that Auckland Transport is making on the Panmure busway section of the AMETI project. Back in April this year I looked at this project in quite a bit of detail, noting that things have come a long way in the right direction from the days where we were expecting no more than basic bus lanes out of the $1.3 billion being spent on AMETI.…
Protected bike lanes
I have discussed previously the importance of not only making cycling actually safer through the provision of cycle lanes, but also making it feel safer by ensuring those lanes are constructed to a high standard and provide some real shielding from vehicles.…
Service or infrastructure led PT improvements?
There’s something of an ongoing debate in public transport circles over whether improvements should be ‘service led’ or ‘infrastructure led’. What I mean by that is whether we focus on improving service levels to a level where infrastructure investment becomes justified, or whether we look at infrastructure investment as happening first, with service levels being adapted to fit in with that infrastructure.…
Australasian patronage trends
This blog post has some excellent comparisons of public transport patronage across New Zealand and Australian cities. While all the cities looked at are of vastly different sizes (and therefore have vastly different patronage numbers), through comparing growth rates and per capita patronage, we can really have quite a good look at how Auckland stacks up against these other places.…
Waterview Connection design details
Some pretty cool design details for the Waterview Connection project have emerged, and are worth taking a look through. Starting at the southern end of the project: The above picture shows the interchange with Maioro Street.
Shifting further along, you can see how the motorway will look as it passes through Allan Wood Reserve: It’s good to see that, while the motorway will be running effectively through the middle of a large green space, the leftover parts of that space are going to be really nicely landscaped.…
Are we using our buses efficiently?
Back in early September the council’s transport committee looked at three important reports: the annual screenline study of trips into the isthmus and CBD, a study of congestion levels and a benchmarking study which compared Auckland to various cities overseas. Quite rightly, most of the focus was placed on the bench-marking study, which highlighted how comparatively poor our public transport system is (not that surprising) and also how expensive it is for users (a bit more surprising).…
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