Reducing Traffic
Do you sometimes wish you could just magic away the traffic?
Not all of it, perhaps, as if you’ve stepped into a car ad fantasy… … but some of it – like it’s the summer holidays and most people are resting at home or away at the beach?…
116 Comments Auckland’s Wonderful Long-Distance Bus Terminal
Leading Image: Busbahnhof Poppenbüttel, Germany. Credit: Blunck + Morgen Architekten.
This is a post by Paul Callister and Heidi O’Callahan
Plans are underway for a new long-distance bus terminal.
The terminal will play an important role for New Zealanders in the challenging times we have ahead.…
Night Train
This post is by Paul Callister and Heidi O’Callahan
In rail’s heyday, holiday times were hectic. On Christmas Eve in 1938, 16 express trains (including eight bound for Auckland) swept more than 11,000 travellers out of Wellington in a single day. …
THIS IS NOT A DRILL
The climate crisis is real. It’s not a drill. If we do nothing, Barcelona and the planet will become uninhabitable for future generations.
Barcelona declared a Climate Emergency on the 15th January 2020
with an action plan and a budget of 563 million euros We are talking about a profound transition in every aspect of the city: its productive system, its people, how we work, how we move around, etc.…
Reinventing Auckland using Lessons from Ghent
A few weeks ago, Streetfilms released an eye-catching video about the small Belgian city of Ghent, and the dramatic changes they made to traffic circulation in 2017. This video should be professional development watching for everyone involved in Auckland’s transport planning.…
Moving Responsibility Upwards
Photo by Caleb S on Unsplash
Late last year, two incidents were reported in the media of young passengers being dropped off by Ola drivers onto the motorway network.
The first incident involved two teenage boys ordered out of an Ola cab on the Auckland Harbour Bridge after the driver took the wrong lane:
The passengers, boys aged 16 and 17, were said to have had to run down a motorway on-ramp to get to safety.…
Parks and Recreation
What is Council’s vision for our “destination” precincts? Planning to improve these areas for recreation, arts and culture, tourism and education needs to be consistent with the planning for the rest of the city. How should they be developed to ensure they are in line with our social, economic and environmental goals?…
Gathering Momentum by Gathering Data
This is a post by Paul Callister and Heidi O’Callahan.
What is required to start developing a co-ordinated passenger rail and bus network for the whole country? One important step, outlined in the Government Policy Statement, is ensuring we’re gathering the right, quality data:
The NZ Transport Agency and regional authorities need to provide high quality analysis to input into a rigorous, fit-for-purpose investment analysis system.…
Ready-Made Council Plans At Your Service
Thank you, local government candidates. The sacrifice of your time, energy and privacy is deeply appreciated, whether or not you achieved the position you sought. Your standing provided us with choice. I believe the election has delivered a good team of representatives to help keep this city ticking along and improving.…
The good, the adequate and the downright bad
This is a post by Paul Callister and Heidi O’Callahan.
The Hon. Shane Jones, Minister for Regional Development, is supporting airports with the Provincial Growth Fund. Has he analysed which transport mode provides the best regional development outcomes? We’ve laid out some environmental and access reasons for a national network of passenger rail, bus, shuttle and supporting active mode infrastructure.…
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