Light Rail is not really about the Airport
There’s been plenty of talk about light rail in the media and why we shouldn’t build it. So we thought we’d offer a different point of view. On Tuesday, the Herald published the below piece from me about it. There’s a lot more that I would have or could have said if it weren’t for word limit.…
36 Comments Continuous improvement needed to drive ridership
Public Transport in Auckland has improved remarkably over the last few decades. The number of annual boardings have almost tripled from a low of just 33 million to 92 million today, well ahead of population growth and most of that in the last decade.…
Flashback Sunday: How rail was saved in Auckland
Every weekend we dig into the archives. This post by Matt was originally published in April 2014.
Next Monday will be a historic day for transport in Auckland as for the first time the city will have electric trains carrying fare paying passengers.…
Improving Wellington’s Rail Network Part 4
In the previous post, I wrote about how we could improve the Wellington rail network including how we could possibly make the Melling line fit better for Wellington from a network operations perspective
In this last post for this series, I propose an alternative solution which is making the Melling line more useful.…
What’s changing in the next batch of trains
Our electric trains have been fantastic and successful addition to the city. More successful than officials predicted, helping to drive ridership on trains to double in four years to 20 million trips annually. They’ve been so successful that many services now have capacity constraints.…
Improving Wellington’s Rail Network Part 3
This is part three of my series that looks at how we can improve Wellington’s rail network. In Part 1 I summarised the network and recent upgrades to it.
In Part 2 I looked at some of the upgrades likely to be progressed in the near future and the need to improve the Wairarapa line.…
The Maddest March yet
I always look forward to the latest ridership numbers from Auckland Transport but March holds a special place thanks to “March Madness”, the time of the year when the usage of buses and trains peak. I had been a little worried about the results for this March due to the combination of two fewer business days, train staff taking industrial action at the beginning of the month and there being a hugely popular series of Adele concerts last year.…
Accelerating Light Rail Delivery
Could Auckland have had the first section of light rail from the city to the airport up and running in time for the 2021 America’s Cup and APEC Summit? A couple of documents the council surprisingly released yesterday suggest it was possible if all of the stars aligned, but the opportunity to do so now looks to have passed.…
Time to show the rapid transit network
There’s been plenty of noise over the last week about the government’s transport announcement. While most of it has been focused on fuel tax changes, one of the big positives is that for the first time we also saw dedicated funding for the development of Rapid Transit.…
PT is just too slow
Tomorrow, Auckland Transport will formally open the Manukau Bus Station, followed by a public open day from 10am-2pm. The station itself looks great but I have long had some serious concerns about its functional design. It feels like it was designed by people who don’t use or understand how PT works.…
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