Council chickening out on parking reform?
Over the last few months, this blog has discussed parking policy a few times, with the general consensus being that it’s extremely important for us to get rid of minimum parking requirements – as they act as both a huge subsidy for driving and also as a huge barrier to land-use intensification.…
24 Comments Transport – It’s the Economy, Stupid
I came across a well crafted piece about the Government’s transport policies on Scoop, by Dr Glen Koorey (presumably the same person who comments here occasionally as “Glen K”) a senior lecturer in transportation at the University of Canterbury’s College of Engineering.…
Cycling for Google Maps in Auckland
I like the Google Maps direction tools – in fact I find them about a million times more useful than the official MAXX website when it comes to public transport (not like that’s hard though!) So I was pretty excited to hear that a cycling option has been added for Auckland.…
Thoughts on “Band-Aid” solutions
There are often two competing arguments when it comes to transport investment: Build the project now, you’re going to need it eventually
Only build what you need when you need to build it This is a really interesting debate, because both sides of the argument have a good point to make.…
Auckland’s PT Trends
The agenda for next week’s meeting of the Council’s Transport Committee includes an interesting item on transport monitoring, which looks at how Auckland’s transport system is performing in comparison to a number of targets that were set in the Auckland Spatial Plan.…
Rudman rightly slams the NLTP
Brian Rudman was in fine form in yesterday’s NZ Herald, highlighting that behind all the fancy words of the National Land Transport Programme, both Auckland and public transport get a pretty raw deal:
In Auckland’s case, of the $3.37 billion Mr Brownlee plans to invest, $816 million comes from Auckland Council.…
Vancouver facing some tough decisions
The excellent “Price Tags” blognotes something that came through pretty loud and clear when I was in Vancouver over the last couple of weeks and researching a bit into their transport situation (although I was mostly focusing on land-use initiatives, you can never quite separate the two) – there’s no money left in traditional funding sources to keep improving the system, should they hold back for a while (especially as a few roading projects seem to have snuck in recently) or does Vancouver need to find different ways of sourcing funds for important further improvements to its transport network?…
The City Centre Master Plan – Part 1
The final version of the Council’s City Centre Master Plan was released, with relatively little attention, a couple of weeks back. There’s a fairly flash little website associated with it here, or if you’re patient you can download the whole 33.2 MB document here.…
The Snapper/HOP debacle finally resolved?
Well I chose a rather dramatic couple of weeks to be out of the country – I come back and it seems as long last we might have sorted out the integrated ticketing problem and finally given Snapper the boot. Good riddance I say!…
Analysing Vancouver’s bus network
The comments thread on my previous post about Vancouver got into a bit of discussion about the quality of the city’s bus network. I thought I’d dig into that a bit deeper, as while the Skytrain is the “show-pony” of the transit network here, it’s really the buses which still do the donkey work of the system.…
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