Express not always best for Airport
Whether to run express services or not is an age-old debate when it comes to public transport. Speed and coverage/accessibility are some of the many variables that need to be traded off against each other when designing a network.
In Auckland, the most notable place this debate is currently occurring is in regard to the airport.…
Flashback Saturday: What about Airport Heavy Rail from Puhinui?
Every weekend we dig into the archives. This post was originally published by Matt in April 2017.
Since Auckland Transport and NZTA decided in the middle of last year to rule out Heavy Rail as the best way of serving the Airport with rapid transit, there has been a lot of ongoing consternation from many about this decision.…
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.…
Airport Rapid Transit isn’t really about the Airport
The idea of providing Airport rail through a short spur from Puhinui is one of those ideas that continues to pop up. It emerged again in an opinion piece the NZ Herald ran just over a week ago (which was oddly a repeat of a piece they ran exactly a month earlier).…
Airport Rail Responses
There have been numerous reactions since Sunday following Labour’s announcement of their plan to build light rail to the airport, as part of them adopting our Congestion Free Network. Reactions have included plenty of uninformed opinion and a general misunderstanding of just what’s proposed, which tends to lead to a skepticism about the project.…
Auckland Airport’s Growth Plans
The Airport over the last two months have made their plans for what they call Auckland’s Airport of the Future more concrete.
The AIAL Masterplan is a few years old so let’s first start with a refresh/recap as it is quite interesting.…
Airport transport improvements coming
There was an interesting announcement by Auckland Airport yesterday on number of transport projects they’ll be undertaking, some of which could really help improve access for buses to the terminals. The four new projects are: upgrading Nixon Road by October 2017 to provide a new route to Auckland Airport’s Park&Ride on Verissimo Drive without the need for drivers to use the main intersection that connects the domestic and international terminals at Tom Pearce Drive and George Bolt Memorial Drive;
improving traffic flows and improving public transport access to the domestic terminal by Christmas 2017 through the provision of more space for buses on the terminal forecourt and a new and separate access road for taxis and buses;
construction of an iconic new gateway bridge over George Bolt Memorial Drive by the end of 2018 for pedestrians and cyclists to connect “the Quad” hotel and commercial precinct with the airport terminals and take cars off the main road network; and
implementing a transit lane system across the airport precinct between December 2017 and 2020 for buses and high occupancy vehicles.…
Airport Rapid Transit: A Way Forward.
Below is a post I wrote in August 2016. We are re-running it now because it is confirmed what we have learnt since from both the seemingly endless number of reports on this issue and the increasingly dysfunctional traffic in the area.…
What about Airport Heavy Rail from Puhinui?
Since Auckland Transport and NZTA decided in the middle of last year to rule out Heavy Rail as the best way of serving the Airport with rapid transit, there has been a lot of ongoing consternation from many about this decision.…
NZTA support light-rail to Airport
A briefing to Councillors (from page 251) included in an attachment for the Council’s Planning Committee meeting for next week says that both the NZTA and Auckland Transport boards have now agreed on a way forward for the city to airport corridor. …
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