Weekly Roundup 6-Dec-19
Here’s the roundup of some of the things we didn’t yet cover this week.
Dogs on Trains
Back in June Auckland Transport started trialling allowing pets to travel on trains in a three-month trial. However, the rules were that animals have to be “enclosed in suitable pet carriers that are small enough to be held on the owner’s lap or stored under the seat”.…
60 Comments Consultation Crunch 2.0
For the second year in a row, there is a rush on to get a heap of consultations completed right before everyone heads off for summer holidays – some of which were likely delayed from earlier in the year due to the elections.…
Dec-19 AT Board Meeting
Today the Auckland Transport board meet for the last time this year.
Closed Agenda
There is a bumper crop of items of the closed agenda this month, presumably as staff try to get things signed off before the end of the year.…
Weekly Roundup 29-Nov-19
Here’s the roundup of some of the things we didn’t yet cover this week.
More Auckland Transport Consultation
After months of silence in the lead up to the local body elections, AT are clearly now playing catch up and trying to squeeze in all of their consultations before Christmas.…
Weekly Roundup 22-Nov-19
Here’s a roundup of some of the stories that have cropped up this week – although a couple are from last week after we missed the post last Friday.
Auckland Transport Consultation Frenzy
AT have launched a large number of consultations over the last two weeks.…
Getting the little things right – some insights from Japan
This is a guest post from reader Malcolm M and follows on from his earlier post here.
While transport public transport authorities in the English-speaking world pattern themselves on the successes (and failures) of British policies, perhaps a better model would be look to Japan, particularly in getting the little things right.…
AT finally looking to fix the Outer Link
The Link routes are unique in Auckland in that they’re some of the few cases where AT try to put any effort into creating and marketing a public transport brand. But while the brand has strong recognition, the experience leaves a lot to be desired, most noticeably the Inner and Outer links which due to their loopy nature, are unreliable with buses often end up bunched together and having long pauses at places like Victoria Park.…
Gathering Momentum by Gathering Data
This is a post by Paul Callister and Heidi O’Callahan.
What is required to start developing a co-ordinated passenger rail and bus network for the whole country? One important step, outlined in the Government Policy Statement, is ensuring we’re gathering the right, quality data:
The NZ Transport Agency and regional authorities need to provide high quality analysis to input into a rigorous, fit-for-purpose investment analysis system.…
In bed before 10: Auckland Transport’s vision for our future
In mid-October Auckland Transport cut off peak and evening frequencies on a swathe of bus routes across the city.
There are more of them than any sane person would read through, but of most relevance to this post are the many previously frequent “15 minutes until midnight” routes, introduced with the new network, which have been cut to near useless 30 minute frequency in the evening.…
Disappearing traffic on 14th Street
We like to keep an eye on what’s going on in the world of transport overseas as it can help inform discussion of what happens here and one of the most interesting recent examples comes to us from New York. The city is well known for its subway system which in the year to the end of June carried over 2.6 billion trips but buses also play a significant role and over the same period, MTA buses carried another 700 million trips.…
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