The Plan
I haven’t posted for a while and Josh being a way gives me a chance to get back in the groove. One of the reasons I haven’t posted for a while is because I think our brains work about 10 times as fast as money is available and about 50 times faster than most policiticians brain’s move.…
21 Comments Public Transport & the CBD
Auckland City Council has produced a very interesting policy document on improving transport in the CBD. The whole document is here, with a council agenda item that provides a summary able to be read here. The document as a whole is well worth a read, and outlines a pretty exciting and refreshing approach to transport in Auckland’s CBD.…
CBD Rail Tunnel: crunch time
Preliminary findings of the business case for the CBD Rail Tunnel should be released within the next month. Of course we all have our fingers crossed that the number-crunching confirms most people’s strong belief that the project is cost-effective and well worth the rather significant $1.5 billion pricetag.…
The need for cost-effectiveness in infrastructure investment
Finance Minister (and Infrastructure Minister) Bill English yesterday gave quite an interesting speech to representative of Local Government New Zealand (LGNZ). The topic of the speech related to the need for tax-payers and rate-payers to get the best return possible on infrastructure investment.…
Transport CCO: set up to fail public transport?
While John Banks appears to be backing away from his previous grand promises to help deliver a world-class rail system for Auckland, should he be elected mayor, most other candidates: both for mayor and for the council, seem to be focusing a lot of their efforts on the need to improve Auckland’s public transport system.…
Public transport’s health benefits
Todd Littman of the Victorian Transport Policy Institute has released a fascinating study into the health benefits of public transport. Here’s a brief summary of the study and its findings:
This report investigates ways that public transportation affects human health, and ways to incorporate these impacts into transport policy and planning decisions.…
Auckland Transport finally has a CEO
The Auckland Transition Agency is finally got around to naming an interim CEO for the Auckland Transport council-controlled organisation, which is only a couple of months away from coming into existence. Rumours had been flying around that we might get some high-flying transport visionary from overseas, but that hasn’t happened.…
Flat Bush: very expensive sprawl
I have written a number of posts about Flat Bush in the past. For those that don’t know, Flat Bush is a large greenfields development in the southeast corner of Auckland. Over the next 20 or so years around 40,000 people are expected to call Flat Bush home.…
Peak Oil and the UK
An interesting report on the likely effects of Peak Oil on the UK has been released by the UK Industry Taskforce on Peak Oil and Energy Security. Here’s a summary from Going Solar:If the UK’s transport system is considered at risk of being seriously impacted by higher oil prices, I’d hate to even think what the risk is to New Zealand’s highly car dependent transport system.…
Smarter Parking Policy
A great initiative in San Francisco to help price parking spaces more accurately so they’re easier to find. I like the initiatives of adjusting parking prices to be dependent on the level of demand, and I also like how people will be able to check online to see how heavily “parked” the area they’re going to generally is, and also the parking rate they expect to have to pay.…
Processing...