CRL Testing begins
Years of hard work finally paid off last week as the country’s biggest and most important transport project, the City Rail Link reached a major milestone with the first test train making its way slowly though the tunnels for the first time.…
25 Comments Council’s one neat TRIC to fix AT?
Tomorrow the council’s Transport, Resilience and Infrastructure Committee meet and agenda has a few interesting papers. Council’s Letter of Expectation to Auckland Transport
Every year the council provide a Letter of Expectation to Auckland Transport which is part of the process for informing AT of the council’s priorities and feed into AT’s Statement of Intent of what they plan to do for the year and council will be approving the latest one in this meeting.…
2024s Busiest Bus Routes
A few weeks ago I took a look at public transport ridership in 2024. In today’s post I’m going to be looking a bit deeper at bus ridership.
Buses make up the vast majority of ridership in Auckland with 70 million boardings last year out of a total of 89.4 million.…
Trains are back but slower
This week, KiwiRail and Auckland Transport were celebrating two things: the completion of the summer rail works that had the network shut down for over a month and the start of electric trains to Pukekohe.
First up, here’s a few parts of the press release about the shutdown works.…
Public Transport Ridership in 2024 – Part 1
How did public transport ridership perform in 2024, where has the post-COVID recovery been the strongest and weakest, and how does Auckland compare to other cities? Those and more are questions that I’ll answer over a few posts.
In this first post, I’m taking a look at the high-level numbers.…
Growing Auckland
An interesting article in Stuff a few weeks ago asked a couple of interesting questions in it’s headline, “How big can Auckland get? And how big is too big?“. Unfortunately, the article doesn’t really answer those questions, instead focusing on current growth projections, but there were a few aspects to the article I wanted to highlight.…
2024 sets some new road safety records
Last year, 292 people died unnecessarily on our roads. That is the lowest result in over a decade and only the fourth time in the last 70 years we’ve seen fewer than 300 deaths in a calendar year. Yet, while it is 292 people too many, with each death being a tragedy for the family and friends of those lost, in terms of fatalities this is also arguably the best (least worst) year on the roads that New Zealand has yet seen.…
2025 – The Year Ahead
Welcome to 2025. After wrapping up 2024, here’s a look at some of the things we can expect to see this year along with a few predictions. Council and Elections
Elections
One of the biggest things this year will be local body elections in October.…
2024 – A Year in Review
Well, it’s the last day of the year, so it’s time for a quick wrap-up of the most important things that happened in 2024 for urbanism and transport in our city. A huge thank you to everyone who has visited the blog and supported us in our mission to make a greater Tāmaki Makaurau.…
December-24 AT Board Meeting
Today the Auckland Transport board meet for the last time this year. For those interested (and with time to spare), you can follow along via this MS Teams link from 10am. I’ve taken a quick look through the agenda items to see what I think the most interesting aspects are.…
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