Integrated ticketing moves forward (slowly)
Further detail on the painfully slow implementation of integrated ticketing in Auckland was outlined in the October business report to the board of Auckland Transport. With the project being somewhat distracted by the silly A-Pass over the past few months, hopefully with the World Cup out of the way we might start seeing some real progress in the next few months: There are two interesting things to note in the paragraph above, first is that in February next year we will start to see something of a further rollout – with what’s called the “Limited Functionality Pilot”.…
8 Comments My Auckland Plan submission
Submissions on the Auckland Spatial Plan close on October 31st. I cannot stress how important this plan is in guiding Auckland’s future – as I outlined in more detail here. Auckland Council has put together quite a pretty video outlining the broad goals of the plan: My submission is outlined below.…
What makes for good transport policy?
With the world cup now out of the way, all eyes will begin to turn towards the general election – which is only a month away as of tomorrow. Obviously the lead up to the election will be of particular interest to the readers of this blog, and I hope that each party’s transport policy may play some part in helping decide who you end up voting for (even if I admit that’s relatively unlikely).…
Council vs Government battle continues
While my analysis of the Auckland Plan’s transport aspects tend to come to the conclusion that far too many roading projects are proposed, which contradicts with the Plan’s transport goals and targets, an article on the NZ Herald today makes it clear that the government is taking the opposite view.…
One more week to submit on Auckland’s future
Submissions on the Auckland Spatial Plan, the City Centre Master Plan and the Waterfront Plan close this time next week. If you ask me, I think it’s pretty stupid of Auckland Council to consult on all three plans at the same time, let alone do so when Auckland is severely distracted by the Rugby World Cup.…
Making best use of comparator city studies
Jarrett Walker’s Human Transit blog has a post up about the study which compares Auckland to 13 other somewhat similar cities that I posted about yesterday. The post also usefully links to a full copy of the report. Jarrett helped put together the study, which compares many elements of Auckland’s public transport system to systems in Wellington, Brisbane, Perth, Adelaide, Sydney, Melbourne, Edmonton, Ottawa, Calgary, Vancouver, Honolulu, Portland and Seattle, coming to the general conclusion that on a lot of measures Auckland falls dead last.…
The disputed economics of the City Rail Link
A few months back when Auckland Council and the government released vastly different results from their (supposedly) joint review of the City Rail Link’s business case, we learned that the process of determining whether a project is “worth it” is not the objective exercise that is so often portrayed.…
Auckland’s PT internationally poor
An article in the NZ Herald yesterday picks up on the comparator city study that I blogged about previously here and here.
Auckland Transport is under pressure from its political masters to work harder to improve bus, rail and ferry services after a damning international comparison.…
Transport and the “Southern Initiative”
The Auckland Spatial Plan contains a vast number of goals, objectives, broad thinking and so forth – but perhaps more importantly two key focuses: the city centre (to be implemented through the City Centre Master Plan) and the Southern Initiative. The Southern Initiative is described in the Strategic Direction section of the Auckland Plan:
Southern Auckland is a centre of economic activity with huge potential to contribute still further to NZ’s economy.…
Improving Auckland’s PT: what we need to do
At last month’s meeting of the Auckland Council Transport Committee there was a very interesting “benchmark study” that compared a wide variety of measures of public transport in Auckland with a number of cities around the world. Inevitably, Auckland performed worst in most of the measures – even when compared against other cities like Perth, Brisbane and Calgary that have much lower population densities, traditionally seen as a fundamental reason for Auckland’s poor performance.…
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