Sunday reading 21 January 2018
Welcome back to Sunday Reading.
Housing is on my Sunday Reading agenda for 2018. Here’s an epic article covering a new bill filed in California by State Senator Scott Wiener of San Francisco. Wiener proposes a blanket upzoning of transit-adjacent properties across the state.…
18 Comments Nov-17 Ridership
Auckland Transport have published the ridership results for November and there’s a few interesting points to note.
For the first time since April 2013, for the monthly results, growth on buses was stronger than rail. For November, bus use grew by 7.6% compared to November 2016 while rail was up 4.6%.…
1975 Auckland Rapid Transit video
Last week I posted an excellent video from the 1980’s looking at the development boom of the time in the city centre. One of our readers later send us a link to another great old video, this time a decade earlier. …
Westfield Flying Junction
Earlier this year I put in an OIA to KiwiRail asking some questions regarding the Auckland Rail Network, however, due to the abundance of transport news I have not been able to post about it.
One of the items that came back to me was preliminary designs for what a Westfield Flying Junction would look like as KiwiRail needed to do one so the NZTA could make sure that any East-West Link design did not preclude its possible future construction.…
Positive signs from the Traffinz Conference
This is a guest post from Waitemata Local Board Chair Pippa Coom. She attended the annual TRAFINZ conference last week. TRAFINZ represents local authority views on road safety and traffic management in New Zealand.
Change is coming to NZ – we just have to be brave
World renowned road safety strategist Dr Matts- Åke Belin has found himself in New Zealand at the worst of times and the best of times for sharing the proven success of “Vision Zero” (the approach to road safety summarised as no loss of life on the roads is acceptable).…
Development update: November 2017
Good news, everyone – in the year to September 2017, for the first time ever, Auckland consented more “attached” homes than it did standalone houses.
Why is that good news? Auckland has a housing shortage, so any home is a good home, right?…
Books for buses: share what you’re reading
Reader JDELH had a good suggestion in the comments section the other day: I’ve no doubt a post on “great bus reading books” would also be popular
As I’ve written before, books and public transport complement each other quite nicely. I get quite a lot of reading done while commuting on the bus.…
Will the Eastern Busway ever get built?
The Auckland Manukau Eastern Transport Initiative (AMETI), or the Eastern Busway as AT now call it, has rightfully been listed as one of Auckland’s highest priority projects for around a decade. It was listed as the second most important transport project in the region in the 30-year Auckland Plan and has been one of the top items in every local and central government transport plan or policy since, including recent election promises.…
Submit to save Takapuna’s new urban area
This is a Guest Post from Generation Zero Auckland Director Leroy Beckett There is an urgent opportunity to quickly feedback on a new Council-lead proposal in Takapuna on the North Shore- whether to build a sustainable new example of “ urban density done well’ OR (as some angry locals want) retain a wasteland of a car park.…
General Election Debate on Transport – Campaign for Better Transport
The Campaign for Better Transport is holding an election debate with all the major parties this month in Auckland. The CBT is led by Cameron Pitches and over the years has led campaigns and advocated for many transport issues including: Airport Rail
Reopen Onehunga Rail
Rail Electrification
Integrated ticketing
Hamilton – Auckland Rail
City Rail Link
Operation Lifesaver – An Alternative to Puhoi-Warkworth
Northwestern Busway
North Shore Rail
A more economic alternative to the East West Link The Campaign for Better Transport will be hosting a public meeting for political parties to present their transport policies, with a particular focus on Auckland’s needs.…
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