East-West an ever increasing cost
I recently received back an OIA request from the NZTA on a few projects. One part of that was related to the Additional Waitemata Harbour Crossing and the other which I’ll cover in this post was about the East West Link Connections.…
43 Comments Reeves Rd Flyover decision: The details
A few weeks ago Auckland Transport announced that the Reeves Rd Flyover was back on again. I happened to be looking through some info for the AT board meetings and found that they’ve published the paper that was used to make that decision.…
Sunday reading 5 June 2016
Welcome back to Sunday reading this long weekend.
We start this week with a borrowed slide explaining the way that the quality of your city’s Transit system controls the quality of your driving commute: This explains what’s wrong with current expansion of SH16 and the completion of the Western Ring Route.…
Early June AT Board Meeting
The next AT board meeting is tomorrow and as I always do, I’ve been having a look at the publicly available reports to see what’s interesting. I usually cover off the items at the closed session of the board meeting however at the time of writing this post that agenda hadn’t be published online.…
“The accident is not the major problem”
A few weeks ago, I wrote about some misguided commentary on road safety that implied that “distracted walking” was a serious problem. It isn’t by any reasonable measure, but many of our other transport practices are unsafe.
On average, around 300 people die as a result of road crashes.…
Dynamic Road Lanes coming
It seems that Auckland Transport have found a use for the large medians they so often like to include in road projects, another lane. They announced on Friday that they would be trialling what they call a Dynamic Lane Control system on Whangaparaoa Road.…
AT Parking Strategy video
Auckland Transport have put together a pretty good video to explain the parking strategy they adopted late last year. Perhaps the most interesting outcome from the video is that AT are developing a parking app that will let people pay for an on street carpark.…
Another Road Only Harbour Crossing on the Cards?
The absence of rail as well as walking and cycling options to the North Shore has been considered an oversight by many probably ever since the Harbour Bridge was first approved for construction over 60 years ago. While Skypath will finally rectify the walking and cycling situation, many have looked to the prospect of an Additional Waitemata Harbour Crossing (AWHC) to rectify the rail one.…
Reeves Rd Flyover back on the books
Auckland Transport has had an on-again/off-again type relationship with the $170 million Reeves Rd flyover in Pakuranga. Yesterday they announced it was definitely back on again and sees them running back to the idea that before we can build any PT or cycling infrastructure, we must first build a massive road as compensation.…
Autonomous Cars and the City
I made a little Tweet Storm Saturday morning on an issue that’s been on my mind about driverless cars and the City: 1. I have a hunch about how Autonomous Vehicles will function and be received that in important ways doesn't align with the boosters' views.…
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