Gerry gets involved in Integrated Ticketing
Some more new developments in the Snapper/Integrated ticketing saga emerged yesterday. The Herald reports:
Auckland’s main bus operator could lose at least $70 million in annual operating subsidies if it fails by November to install machines capable of reading new electronic transport tickets.…
12 Comments Further analysing Vancouver’s PT success
In my previous post I looked at why Auckland should be focusing on Vancouver in Canada as a city to emulate, particularly when it comes to public transport. In this post I will look in a bit more detail at Vancouver’s PT patronage success before in future posts moving onto looking at how Vancouver has been so successful at encouraging people onto buses, trains and ferries.…
Visualising the Impact of the CRL
Yesterday I posed the question of which piece of transport infrastructure carried the most people during the morning peak. The answer is that at the moment they both carry about the same number of people, the difference of course is that the Britomart tunnel has the ability in the future to carry many many more people in the same amount of space as I intend to show you shortly.…
The PT world from the eyes of Infratil
Some interesting insight into the thinking of NZ Bus is in the latest issue of Infratil’s investor update which came out last week.
NZ Bus was acquired by infratil in 2005 at a price which was a discount to the value of the assets of the business.…
HOP on your phone
Thinking of buying a new smart phone, it might be a good idea to get one with an NFC chip in it because AT and Thales are trialling using NFC with the final (real) hop. That would mean you wouldn’t need a separate Hop card and would just need to swipe your mobile phone to pay for your PT trip.…
PT Letdown for ANZAC day
On Wednesday is one of the most important days of the year, ANZAC day. One of the key parts of the day is the dawn service and in Auckland thousands of people get up early to take part in the ceremony that takes place at the museum.…
Developing the Rail and Busway Network
Over the last week or so some of my fellow bloggers have put up their suggestions for how to develop the rail network in the future, I have taken some of their ideas and thrown in a few of my own.…
March not so Mad in 2012
It’s known as March Madness due to all of the extra people that use the PT network however this March appears not to have been much madder than previous years. Auckland Transport has released their patronage stats for the month which show that PT trips increased by only 0.9% compared to the same month last year.…
AT Addressing Rail and Bus Performance
AT has it’s board meeting today and as usual I have gone through the open reports to find out what new information is available. Probably the most interesting thing in this months report is an update to the board on both rail and bus performance issues, many of which have been raised on here before.…
Outer Link – further refinements necessary
I was going to put much of this in a comment on Matt’s post of a few days ago asking how people get to work, but I think it raises issues that will be of general interesting to quite a few readers, so I’m making a post out of it.…
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