Weekly Roundup – 24-Jan-20
Here’s our weekly collection of smaller pieces.
Otahuhu station works
Over the Christmas/New Year period works were undertaken to enable the third platform at Otahuhu, which is being done as part of the City Rail Link. A timelapse of the works is below. Electric Bus MoU
Auckland Transport’s current plans to roll out electric buses with them specifying all new buses be electric by 2025 and all buses electric by 2040 is simply not ambitious enough.…
31 Comments Communicating bus diversions
While Auckland’s bus network has radically improved over the past few years, many of the bits that go with it – things like wayfinding, announcements, reliability, shelter and transfer quality – have not changed much or have only had slight enhancements.…
Auckland Transport’s weird obsession with subsidising Devonport taxis
This is an important year for Auckland Transport. It needs to catch up on delivering projects funded by the Regional Fuel Tax, where progress has been slower than forecast. It also needs to do much of the grunt work to inform the next cycle of transport budgets that will take effect from the middle of next year, implement important but often controversial changes to streetspace allocation, implement critical safety improvements and speed limit reductions, get back on track when it comes to delivering cycleways, increase public transport use at a time when there are no big projects or changes being delivered to ride the coattails of, and – all while being subject to a CCO review that should ask fundamental questions about the roles and functions of a transport CCO and how to improve its public accountability.…
Auckland’s PT fare changes for 2020
As expected, Auckland Transport have announced public transport fares are set to rise.
Auckland Transport (AT) has completed its annual review of public transport fares which takes effect from 9 February 2020.
The outcome builds upon the direction given by Auckland Council’s Governing Body in May 2019, which approved: free weekend public transport for five to 15 year olds (proposed by Mayor Phil Goff in his 2019/2020 budget)
the integration of fares for ferry trips into the bus and train network making it cheaper for ferry customers to use multi-mode journeys
a small general fare increase to contribute to additional costs resulting from both enhanced services as a result of increased patronage and inflationary cost pressures. As a result of the latest review, free public transport for 5 to 15-year-olds over weekends will continue and there will be no changes for those travelling longer distances (5, 6, 7 and 8 zone trips).…
Nov-19 Ridership
Auckland Transports public transport and cycling stats show that while November had one less weekday than it did in 2018, we saw still managed some decent growth in usage.
Public Transport
We should see a more detailed breakdown of the November numbers at the next AT board meeting in February but the high-level numbers are positive.…
Proposed Staging for the NW RTN
Making significant progress on getting rapid transit to the North West should be one of the key objectives of our transport agencies this year.
In early December I wrote about Auckland Transport’s plans for a ‘pop-up’ busway to get things kicked off.…
Weekly Roundup 10-Jan-20
It’s the first weekly roundup of 2020, our weekly collection of smaller pieces.
Tamaki Regeneration
I came across this excellent video released a few months ago from Tamaki Regeneration about their plans. It’s great they explicitly talk about changing streets to make them safer
One of the most interesting parts is this concept for a significantly upgraded Glen Innes Station.…
Speeding up Wellington Buses
One of the most important things Auckland Transport need to do to improve public transport is to improve the speed and reliability of buses. This is something I wrote about a few times last year including this post where I analysed the average speed of buses in Auckland using timetable data.…
2020 – The year ahead
Welcome to 2020. Following my wrap up of 2019 last week I thought it would be good to look at some of the things we can expect to see in 2020. I think 2020 is very much going to be year where there’s lots of things going on but not necessarily a lot completed as projects race against the approaching timelines of 2021 when Auckland hosts the America’s Cup and APEC.…
2010s – A decade in Review
As we round out not only the year but also the decade, I’ve decided to join the ranks of end of decade reviews.
Thinking about the overall macro trend of the twenty tens, I think it’s one of Auckland starting to come of age as a city.…
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