A glimpse at the future of Queen St
Sydney are busy building light rail from the city to the South East with it due to open in 2019. The route takes light rail right down George St, where around 1km of the street will become a transit mall. The hoardings on the first two completed sections of George St have now come down, revealing the new, and vastly improved, street environment.…
82 Comments Oct-17 Ridership
Auckland Transport have published the ridership numbers for October. Here’s the AT table behind the data. The good news is that overall we’re continuing to see good growth but that isn’t universal with some buses and some ferries both seeing declines compared to last year.…
What makes a good light-rail route different from a good busway route?
While the “bus versus light-rail” argument over Dominion Road and Airport “mass transit” is now settled, it is inevitable that this argument will come up over and over again as we develop Auckland’s strategic public transport network over the coming years.…
Rethinking the Additional Waitemata Harbour Crossing project
With a new Government, we are able to have a rethink of some of the Transport priorities for Auckland. One of these is the Additional Waitemata Harbour Crossing project.
This project has gone very quiet as of late, since the Auckland Transport Alignment Project clearly demonstrated it was nowhere near the high priority that NZTA had previously suggested, deferring it by around 20 years well into the third decade.…
CRL progress – Nov-17
City Rail Link Limited (CRLL) are presenting to the Council’s Finance and Performance Committee tomorrow. Their presentation contains a number of updates on the project. First of all there are some important project wide comments.
CRLL is owned by both the government and the council who act as sponsors.…
Move light rail to serve more people?
With the government supporting light rail, hopefully the team/s tasked with the project have now been able to move on from justification to delivery. While the high-level decision has been made, there’s still a lot of detail that needs to be worked out.…
Rethinking AMETI/Eastern Busway
With the election of a new Government, we can have a little rethink of several proposed projects. One of these projects is AMETI, also now known as the Eastern Busway. This is a project that has been underway since before Auckland Transport existed and all political parties have supported yet seems to make little progress.…
What kind of light rail should we get?
Ever since Auckland Transport first started talking about light rail, initially just on the isthmus, it’s been shown as modern, low-floor vehicles, like you might find gliding through a European city. An attractive and exciting proposition for sure, one made even better with the new government have committed to it.…
Counting all the costs and none of the benefits of PT
The new government have taken a strong and positive stance on the role of public transport in our cities. Over the last decade or so I think that the public and media have come a long way in how they view, report and opine on PT.…
Northwest Light Rail Thoughts
In the Congestion Free Network 2, we floated the idea of Northwestern Light Rail along State Highway 16, rather than a Busway. We did this for a few reasons: Aspirational: We suspected that like the Northern Busway the Northwest Busway would also be a victim of its own success.…
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