The Sustainable Public Transport Framework
On Monday, the government announced they will be changing how public transport is delivered, with the launch of the Sustainable Public Transport Framework (SPTF). This follows a review of the Public Transport Model (PTOM) and will replace the PTOM.
PTOM certainly wasn’t perfect, but it was a far sight better than what we had before.…
48 Comments Inter-Regional Rail Inquiry
Last week Parliament’s Transport and Infrastructure Select Committee announced they are holding an inquiry into the future of inter-regional passenger rail in New Zealand.
The Transport and Infrastructure Committee has opened an inquiry into the future of inter-regional passenger rail in New Zealand. …
Can a different route fix tunneled light rail?
As regular readers will know, we’re not fans of the current plans to put light rail in a tunnel across the isthmus at enormous financial and opportunity cost.
There are a number of factors that play into why we think a surface-running system is better for Auckland.…
The latest on Airport to Botany
Last year the impressive new Puhinui station along with bus and transit lanes linking it to the Airport and Manukau were opened creating a much improved public transport connection to the airport.
The station is just the first stage of a larger plan to build a new rapid transit line from the Airport to Botany (A2B) and that’s an important project we haven’t heard a lot about recently.…
Supporting Sprawl in the North
A few months ago we saw the latest round of consultations for the transport networks in the planned huge new greenfield growth areas in the Northwest and Warkworth by the Supporting Growth team. These new sprawl areas, along with others planned in the South and around Dairy Flat, are eventually planned to be home to hundreds of thousands of new residents.…
Efeso Collins’ Transport Policy
Last week we covered the transport policy of mayoral candidate Viv Beck. Later that same day, the Labour and Greens endorsed candidate and current Councillor Efeso Collins announced his transport policy, calling it a “Five-point Transport Plan To Unlock’s Auckland’s Potential“.…
Viv Beck’s Transport Policy
We are now only around 3 months away from the next local body elections and given how much it tends to feature in local elections, that means we’re going to start to see more and more discussion about transport policy.
With Phil Goff stepping down, the election for Mayor is probably the most uncertain it’s been since Auckland was amalgamated in 2010 and Mayoral hopefuls are starting to release policy.…
Regional Trains and Electrification
A story a few weeks ago highlighted that lower North Island councils are frustrated that the government didn’t provide funding in the budget for new regional trains.
The Transport Minister has left the door open for 22 new electric trains, after lower North Island mayors kicked up a stink they weren’t funded in this year’s Budget.…
Light Rail’s Sponsored Defence
Yesterday the Herald ran a sponsored article from the Auckland Light Rail team (ALR) on their plans for tunnelled light rail. The main point of the article seems to be about trying to justify their solution compared to a surface one.…
What’s happening with PT ridership
Public transport usage has been all over the place since the start of the pandemic over two years ago. Where we once were celebrating ever new milestones and wondering how high usage would get in certain timeframes, we now how long, it will take just for usage to get back to pre-pandemic levels.…
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