What would you do competition results
Last week we ran a competition asking for your best ideas that Auckland Transport could do quickly and relatively cheaply. Many of you have been wanting to know who won. The problem has been that I was absolutely blown away by the number of responses that it has taken me a while to actually go through them all.…
34 Comments PT Network Design Course
Are you interested in how to design public transport networks? Then this course may be for you.
You can also see more about it here.…
Great Scott! Intelligent Transport Systems Debate
Sorry for the late notice but if you don’t have anything on tomorrow evening the IPENZ Transportation Group are holding their annual debate. This year the topic is whether Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS) are a gift or gimmick.
It should be interesting and both Stu and I are taking part in the debate (on opposite teams).…
Give A Little – Thanks Again
A quick but heartfelt thank you to everyone that donated to our Congestion Free Network Give A Little cause. Â $2,120 was raised to help fund the extensive promotion of the plan, which is being led by Generation Zero with the support of the Auckland Transport Blog and the Campaign for Better Transport.…
GiveALittle – CFN Edition
Our GiveALittle campaign to cover server hosting costs was a huge success.
As a result, we’ve moved our hosting on to a more grunty server with more memory, and we have enough in the bank to cover hosting costs for at least the next twelve months.…
IPENZ talk on the Congestion Free Network
Next week we will be discussing our Congestion Free Network idea at the IPENZ Transportation Group Auckland meeting. You are all welcome to attend but please do register if you intend to. Click here to do so.…
You Gave a Lot
A big, heartfelt thankyou from the Transport Blog team to all of our readers who gave so generously when we asked.
Our original target of $1,800 to cover hosting costs was smashed within 24 hours of the GiveALittle link being put up on the website. Â …
Give A Little
Regular readers will have noticed that we have setup a GiveALittle donation widget on the left sidebar.
No one at TransportBlog (or the Campaign for Better Transport) gets paid for any work we do, and we rely entirely on donations for operational costs.…
Get Connected – Futures in Public Transport
Approximately two months ago we – being MRCagney and T2Â –Â organised this careers evening at the University of Auckland.
The success of the evening exceeded our expectations, at least in terms of the number of students who turned up. In fact we just about managed to fill one of the University’s larger auditoriums with a range of bright and sparkly faces who were evidently prepared to stay after lectures and listen to members of the “rusty and crusty” brigade.…
Site Stats and User Guidelines
We just keep getting bigger. The debates around Auckland’s growth, planning, and transport are clearly very important to many, and, it seems, more and more people are turning to this site to keep track of them and have their say. Here are the site stats to the end of the most recent full month, April 2013, already since since then we have had two more record breaking days:
Sitemeter rankings put us firmly as the fourth most viewed blog in the country, which frankly astounds me for such a serious and grown-up site.…
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