Public Transport Ridership for the start of 2025
It’s been a few months since we last covered public transport usage and we’ve passed through March Madness so it’s time to have a look at how our PT system is performing again.
First up, at a monthly level we can see that there’s been a mixed start to the year which suggests that the post-COVID recovery appears to have stalled.…
19 Comments Small fixes to help improve Dominion Rd
Making public transport faster and more reliable is some of the key ways to get more people to use it, meaning more people can move around the city. Yet far too often we rely on big projects to deliver these improvements. …
Northwest Busway Makes Progress
In the history of Auckland’s many transport blunders, not building a busway along the Northwestern Motorway at the same time the motorway was being widened and interchanges rebuilt, when the need was clear and the success of investments like the Northern Busway were already understood, is up there with some of the worst we’ve had.…
Fares fair in the Sunshine State?
This is a guest post by Darren Davis. It originally appeared on his excellent blog, Adventures in Transitland, which we encourage you to check out. It is shared by kind permission. Context
Queensland launched 50 cent flat fares across all urban bus networks in the state in August 2024 (including free transfers), initially as a cost of living relief measure implemented in the lead-up to the October 26 2024 state election.…
Auckland’s Big Easter Rail Shutdown
Auckland’s ongoing rail pain will intensify again from this weekend as Kiwirail shut down the network for two weeks as part of their push to get the network ready for the City Rail Link.
KiwiRail will progress upgrade and renewal projects across Auckland’s rail network over the Easter holiday period later this month, as the region draws ever closer to next year’s opening of the City Rail Link (CRL).…
Upper Habour Bus change a step towards rapid transit
It appears that Auckland Transport is finally set to improve Auckland’s busiest non-frequent bus route, the 120.
As highlighted in my post a month ago on Auckland’s busiest bus routes, the 120 is the busiest route that doesn’t already run frequently all day/week and carries more passengers than many other frequent services.…
Meeting the government’s new PT fare revenue targets
It appears that Auckland Transport have finally realised the trouble the public transport system faces with the proposed requirements from the NZTA to hike how much public transport funding comes from users and other PT related revenue.
In November a discussion document was released that focused on setting new higher targets for the “private share” of funding for public transport.…
Council’s one neat TRIC to fix AT?
Tomorrow the council’s Transport, Resilience and Infrastructure Committee meet and agenda has a few interesting papers. Council’s Letter of Expectation to Auckland Transport
Every year the council provide a Letter of Expectation to Auckland Transport which is part of the process for informing AT of the council’s priorities and feed into AT’s Statement of Intent of what they plan to do for the year and council will be approving the latest one in this meeting.…
2024s Busiest Bus Routes
A few weeks ago I took a look at public transport ridership in 2024. In today’s post I’m going to be looking a bit deeper at bus ridership.
Buses make up the vast majority of ridership in Auckland with 70 million boardings last year out of a total of 89.4 million.…
Gondolas for mass transit?
This post by Nicolas Reid was originally published on Linked in. It is republished here with permission.
Gondolas are often in the news, with manufacturers of ropeway systems proposing them as a modern option for mass transit systems in New Zealand.…
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