Council’s expectations of Auckland Transport
In the latest meeting agenda of the governing body of Auckland Council, there’s an interesting piece that documents what Auckland Council expects of Auckland Transport over the next couple of years (pages 85-90 of this document). Much of what’s included in this document has been foreshadowed in previous draft versions of Auckland Transport’s statement of intent, but a few things have been personally added by the mayor and it’s very interesting to get an overall feel for what the Council wants Auckland Transport’s priorities to be.…
15 Comments London’s Spatial Plan
A lot of discussion in planning circles at the moment is about the upcoming ‘Auckland Spatial Plan’. There’s even an article in today’s NZ Herald about the Spatial Plan and its importance:
Dr Blakeley said work was “full speed ahead” on preparing the draft Auckland Plan, and was on target for June next year, despite some views that such a big task would take three to five years.…
Q&A with David Warburton
David Warburton is the CEO of the Auckland Transport Council-Controlled Organisation (CCO). I sent off a few questions to him and a number of other senior staff at Auckland Transport on issues that I think might be of interest to the public.…
Expanding the ferry network
As part of Len Brown’s announcements yesterday on his vision to increase public transport patronage to 150 million trips a year by 2021, there was quite a lot said about improving the ferry network. Here’s what was included in this article from Stuff in terms of improvements proposed to the ferry system:
His plan for ferries is an ambitious one.…
150m public transport trips by 2021?
Some interesting public transport announcements today by Len Brown – probably best encapsulated in this article from Stuff:
Aucklanders could soon be taking ferries to many different areas of the city, catching a train on the CBD rail loop or cycling to work under a plan by mayor Len Brown to more than double the patronage on public transport within 10 years.…
Why not just buy them a dishwasher?
Most transport projects, particularly when it comes to widening motorways or building new ones, derive the vast majority of their estimated ‘benefits’ from the travel time that they will supposedly generate. These “time savings benefits” form the core of most transport cost-benefit analyses that are undertaken – even for public transport projects, where it would seem the biggest apparent benefits of investing money in public transport is to free up traffic movement on the roads.…
Measuring PT success
A lot of effort, and money, has gone into improving Auckland’s public transport system over the last decade – mostly in the form of upgrading the rail system, building the Northern Busway and providing the bus companies with increasing levels of public subsidy.…
Flat fares?
When I was in North America earlier this year one thing I noticed about a number of the metro systems was that they used flat-fares. In New York City, for example, one ride cost $2.25 no matter how far you went and no matter how many lines you changed.…
Your help needed: making NZTA accountable
The New Zealand Transport Agency (NZTA) spends close to $3 billion of public money on transport activities every year. All your petrol tax dollars, all the road user charges that trucks pay and a decent chunk of your vehicle registration fees go into a funding pool (known as the National Land Transport Fund or NLTF) that NZTA is responsible for dispensing.…
We could have integrated ticketing in place tomorrow
A comment by “Bob” on yesterday’s blog post about “what 2011 holds in store for public transport” got me thinking about integrated ticketing. “Bob” noted the following:
I have yet to hear anyone explain why we need a special Integrated Ticket (other than the daftly obvious – seamless transfers; yes, I get that!).…
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