Impressions of Four Cities
*This is a Guest Post by regular reader Warren Sanderson
More specifically these are my impressions from three and a half weeks spent in four cities on the Pacific North West – Vancouver and Victoria in British Columbia and Seattle and San Francisco in the US.…
21 Comments Guest Post: Rail Patronage Targets
This is a Guest Post by reader Luke Christensen
There has been much concern regarding stalling rail patronage recently. This was a substantial topic of discussion at both the Auckland Council Transport Committee meeting and the CCO Strategy Review Committee last Wednesday.…
Thinking seriously about the future of Auckland’s port
This is a guest post from reader Aaron Schiff
Ports of Auckland wants to expand the cargo port in the Auckland CBD, and Auckland Council will soon make a decision on this, apparently without having done a detailed study of the relative merits of the expansion plans versus alternative options.…
Guest Post: Trying out South Korea’s new Light Metro line
This is a guest post by regular commenter and current resident of Korea Konrad Kurta.
There’s been a bit of talk on this blog about the plausibility of replacing the Northern Busway with Vancouver-style ‘light metro’, which I will refer to as ART (Advanced Rapid Transit) for the purposes of this post.…
Guest Post: The Value of Time
This is a guest post by Peter Nunns, an economist working in Auckland with an interest in transport past, present, and future. (Disclaimer: The opinions expressed here are his personal views and do not reflect upon the position of any organisation with which he is associated or constitute professional advice.)…
Guest Post: Can we meet the targets set for CRL patronage?
This is a guest post from Albert Eden Local Board Member and CBT committee member Graeme Easte
I have serious doubts that we can literally reach the PMs target of 20 million trips (more or less double the current level) before we build the CRL.…
Unitary Plan – Is there a devil in the detail?
This is a guest post from Andre de Graaf who is a principal at Construkt
We are all still slowly digesting the ramifications of the Draft Unitary Plan and I suspect it will be a while yet before further scenario testing and some prudent ground “truthing” moulds the Plan into a mechanism that will allow the aspirations of the Auckland Plan to be executed in any real sense.…
Auckland You Drive Me Crazy!
This a guest post by Tim Kvingedal, a student at the School of Architecture, University of Auckland. Tim is from Norway. I´ve been living in central Auckland for 11 months now, and you know what? I’m getting sick of waiting for cars.…
Funding gap or efficiency gap?
Peter Nunns is an economist working in Auckland with an interest in transport past, present, and future. (Disclaimer: The opinions expressed here are his personal views and do not reflect upon the position of any organisation with which he is associated or constitute professional advice.)…
Guest Post: Why I love intensification in my neighbourhood
This is a guest post from John Polkinghorne
I really enjoyed Matt’s post on why he wants intensification in his neighbourhood. I thought I’d write one on why I love it in mine. First off I should explain that I live in a CBD fringe apartment.…
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