Flashback Saturday: CBD Rail Tunnel Study Announced
(Almost) every weekend we dig into the archives. This post was first published in October 2009.
Well after a lot of bad news relating to public transport recently, it’s very nice to see some good news emerging for once. ARTA and KiwiRail have announced a jointly funded study into Auckland’s CBD Rail Tunnel project, to determine the best route, the best station locations and an economic justification for the project.…
5 Comments Flashback Saturday: 2010-2040 RLTS – finally a good transport strategy?
Every weekend we dig into the archives. This post was first published in October 2009.
It’s quite arguable that Auckland hasn’t had a good transport strategy in over 60 years – ever since the 1946 plan to invest in both expansions of the rail network and the road network was shelved in favour of around 50 years where public transport investment was almost non-existent and Auckland went down a rather nasty path towards becoming one of the most auto-dependent cities in the entire world.…
Flashback Saturday: Small steps towards a Northwest Busway
Every weekend we dig into the archives. This post was first published in April 2010.
Last week the Regional Transport Committee confirmed the final form of the 2010 Regional Land Transport Strategy – the culmination of a couple of years’ work in creating Auckland a guiding 30 year transport document. …
Flashback Saturday: Transport trends and issues
Every weekend we dig into the archives. This post was first published in April 2011.
One of the main pieces of transport policy released this year will be the 2012-2015 Government Policy Statement for transport. While the GPS won’t take effect until July 2012, it is supposed to be released to the public by July 2011.…
Flashback Saturday: Stop blaming pedestrians for getting killed
Every weekend we dig into the archives. This post was first published in April 2011.
There was a rather weird initiative yesterday morning as I wandered from my bus to work around the corner of Queen Street and Victoria Street – a mariachi band playing in time with pedestrians crossing the road and encouraging people to “check before they step”.…
Flashback Saturday – Shedding light on Auckland’s population density
Every weekend we dig into the archives. This post was first published in November 2011.
Last night’s post about Eric Thompson’s silly NZ Herald article highlighted one unresolved matter – the question of “what is Auckland’s population density?” I noted that according to Wikipedia, the urban density of Auckland is around 1250 people per square kilometre whereas Demographia states a density of around 2,200.…
Flashback Saturday – Australasian patronage trends
Every weekend we dig into the archives. This post was originally published in December 2011.
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.…
Flashback Saturday – Housing affordability and sprawl
Every weekend we dig into the archives. This post was originally published in December 2011.
The good old ‘compact city’ versus ‘urban sprawl’ debate has been reignited – with a Productivity Commission report on Housing Affordability pointing the finger at land-use regulation as a major cause for reduced housing affordability over the past decade: particularly in Auckland.…
Flashback Saturday: Re-analysing the City Rail Link’s benefits
Every weekend we dig into the archives. This post was first published in November 2011.
It has been frustrating to see the assessment of the City Rail Link’s benefits become so politicised over the past few months. You would think that something like undertaking a cost-benefit analysis of a transport project would be a fairly objective task, but as we have learned there are so many assumptions made when assessing transport projects – that the objectivity of the process has really become something of a myth.…
Flashback Saturday: How should we allocate transport funds?
Every weekend we dig into the archives. This post was first published in August 2011.
With a general election later this year there should hopefully be some good debate about transport matters. A lot of this will inevitably revolve around projects: City Rail Link of Puhoi-Wellsford?…
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