COVID-19 Update: time to stay at home
As of 11.59pm last night New Zealand entered “Level 4” of the alert system that guides our response to the Covid-19 virus. This means we are now formally in “lockdown mode” and you must not travel, unless you work in an essential service or you are accessing an essential service.…
48 Comments Mar-20 AT Board Meeting
Tomorrow the Auckland Transport board meet once again, only this time presumably via video chat. Here are some of the highlights from the board papers published in advance.
Like everyone else, AT have gone into lockdown and that means projects currently under construction have had to shut down.…
Feb-19 Ridership
With the country rapidly moving towards lockdown, thinking about how many people used public transport last month doesn’t seem like a high priority, but then nor does a lot of other things.
Over the last decade we’ve seen public transport use in Auckland grow like never before, rising by over 44 million trips to nearly 104 million and 60% of that was in just the last five years.…
COVID-19: now requires physical distancing on public transport
As COVID-19 continues to spread both locally and internationally, on Saturday the Prime Minister introduced a new four-level alert system. Each new stage gets progressively stricter in what measures will be taken, In announcing the system, the PM also announced we’ve moved to Level 2.…
Weekly Roundup – 20-Mar-20
Wow what a week. Here’s our weekly roundup AT’s COVID-19 Response
Auckland Transport’s response to COVID-19 has evolved over the week since the first announcement on Tuesday.
On Wednesday they said that people paying cash on buses would be given a free HOP card in a bid to keep bus drivers safer by minimising physical contact between them and customers.…
You can keep using PT (for now)
There’s only one thing dominating public discussion these days and that’s COVID-19. With concerns about the spread of the virus it’s already having an impact on if and how people travel as well as the city at large with the streets feeling much emptier than usual, especially for this time of the year.…
2018 Census Travel to Work results
Last week Stats NZ released a new bunch of results from the census, after the first release late last year. This release included one of the bits I’ve been most interested in seeing, the Travel to Work data, despite the issues with both the change in question and the census in general.…
Weekly Roundup – 13-Mar-20
It’s been another busy week with so many interesting articles I’m struggling to fit things in. Auckland Transport to buy only electric buses from now on
Some great news yesterday with Todd Niall reporting that new buses are likely to only be electric from now on.…
Getting to 300 million trips in a decade
Last week in our Weekly Roundup post I highlighted an interview with Councillor Richard Hills who is the chair of the Auckland Council’s Environment and Climate Change committee. One of the quotes that stood out to me is this about public transport usage.…
Weekly Roundup – 06-Mar-20
It’s been another busy week and here are some of the key things that have captured my attention. Access for Everyone approved
Yesterday the Council voted to approve the updated City Centre Masterplan which is fantastic news.
Auckland’s innovative vision for its city centre – a more liveable, green and people friendly future – is here with today’s adoption of a refreshed City Centre Masterplan.…
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