PT Ridership around New Zealand
Auckland had a pretty good year for public transport ridership in the last financial year (to the end of June). Overall, compared to the 2016 ridership increased by 5.5 million (7%) to 88.44 million trips, the highest point since 1955. The biggest mover, and accounting for 51% of that improvement came from huge growth on the rail network, which increased by 2.8 million (17%) to 19.6 million.…
15 Comments Visions of the future coming from the past
We’ve been seeing a string wacky transport ideas promising to be the future of transport, particularly over the last years. While the proponents of them claim that they’re new, it seems the origin of many dates back to old sci-fi magazines from the 50’s and the possible visions of the future they held.…
More thoughts on new City Bus Interchanges
We learnt last week about the council’s updated vision for the city centre. From the Linear Park, though to a better waterfront there’s certainly a lot to like about it. But there a few aspects of the plans that really concern me and they mainly relate to how public transport is being handled in the city centre.…
Wynyard Quarter transport troubles – Part 1
This is a guest post from reader Shan L.
For somewhere so close to the very centre of the city, Wynyard Quarter can sometimes feel surprisingly disconnected – especially if you travel by public transport. In this two-part post I’m going to look at what it’s like to travel to this rapidly growing part of the city from part of the central and southern isthmus: namely the areas serviced by the Dominion and Mt Eden Rd bus lines.…
Bring Back the Grid Network, Bring Back Crosstown 4: The Better Outer Link
The original New Network design was really fantastic. It proposed changing our spaghetti on a map of a bus system focused on one seat rides to everywhere resulting in an inefficient confusing low-frequency radial focused network into a high frequency all day integrated grid based one.…
Aug-17 AT Board Meeting
Tomorrow the Auckland Transport board meet again. I’ve taken a look at some of the key reports to hopefully find some interesting information.
Closed Session
Some months there can be a lot of items at on the closed session agenda of interest, that’s not the case this time though with the most interesting item being the Cycling Programme Business Case.…
Fanshawe bus lane gets permanent enforcement
Despite what some claim, the main issues with bus and transit lanes are that there are not enough of them, that they don’t operate for long enough and that even where they do exist, they can become clogged with cars ignoring the rules.…
Hosking’s idiotic bus lane rant
I can’t say I’m normally one to watch Mike Hosking but I noticed this video and after seeing it, felt it deserved a response.
We’re wrecking roads for a mere 2% of people who catch busses – it’s utterly scandalous. Here’s some truth: Kiwis don’t like public transport!…
Making PT hard
Over recent years public transport has clearly improved, as can be so easily observed by looking at the ridership figures. Yet, while it has improved and more improvements are on the way, it often feels like the system is let down by making it unnecessarily hard for users.…
Jun-17 AT Board Meeting
Time has rolled around again for another AT board meeting. I’ve taken a look at some of the key reports to hopefully find some interesting information.
Closed Agenda
There are a few items on the closed agenda for next week but two look the most interesting and both seem to be related to buying more trains.…
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