“Expanding Auckland” a 1960 documentary
To understand why Auckland is the way it is, we must look back at our past. Old documentaries about Auckland’s history are fairly rare and usually fascinating.
Here’s one from 1960 called “Expanding Auckland”. We’ve published this before but it’s worth watching again.…
22 Comments 2018 – The year ahead
We made it to 2018. We’re expecting another big year and so with this first post of the year, I’m going to take a look at some of the things we can expect to happen.
City Rail Link
The city’s biggest transport project will continue to roll on through 2018.…
2017 – A Year in Review Part 4 – Everything Else
This is part 4 of our series wrapping up the key news and events of the year. You can see Part 1 on PT here
Part 2 on Walking & Cycling here
Part 3 on Roads In this part, I’m going to look at everything else.…
2017 – A Year in Review Part 3 – Roads
This is part 2 of our series wrapping up the key news and events of the year. You can see Part 1 on PT here
Part 2 on Walking & Cycling here In this part, I’m going to look at roads.…
2017 – A Year in Review Part 2 – Walking and Cycling
This is part 2 of our series wrapping up the key news and events of the year. You can see Part 1 on PT here.
In this section I’ll look at walking and cycling. When it comes to our active modes it feels a bit like there’s been a lot of consultation but not a lot of action.…
2017 – A Year in Review Part 1 – PT
With the year drawing to a close, it’s time to reflect on the year and all of the important events that have occurred. Because there’s so much to cover, I’ll be splitting this up over multiple posts, starting with public transport.…
Nov-17 Ridership
Auckland Transport have published the ridership results for November and there’s a few interesting points to note.
For the first time since April 2013, for the monthly results, growth on buses was stronger than rail. For November, bus use grew by 7.6% compared to November 2016 while rail was up 4.6%.…
More toll roads raise questions
Yesterday the Herald reported that the NZTA are looking at adding tolls to four roads currently under construction or in planning.
The New Zealand Transport Agency is eyeing up tolls on four uncompleted roads which it says could support their successful opening and smooth the way for user-pays road pricing, documents released under the Official Information Act show.…
How to avoid subsidising sprawl
We are generally supportive of the new government’s direction when it comes to transport, how could we not when many of their key initiatives originally came from us? Furthermore, we’re also supportive of many of their housing initiatives, especially the need to accelerate the delivery of affordable housing in Auckland and looking to build around rapid transit.…
Staying awake on safety
The increasing levels of death and destruction on our roads has been a major issue for us this year. One of our complaints with previous government’s singular focus on a handful of large, expensive and gold plated projects was that it sucked funding away from a lot of valuable, low cost safety improvements.…
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