Why we need the PTMA
The Public Transport Management Act (PTMA) was passed in September 2008, just before the previous government lost power. As I have explained previously, the PTMA allowed for greater regulation of public transport services – in particular bus services. The most controversial part of the Act allowed public agencies to contract all public transport services in their area, should they so desire.…
11 Comments Land Use & Transport – which drives which?
As well as Paul Mees’s excellent transport books, another book that should be “required reading” for those interested in public transport issues is The Transit Metropolis by Robert Cervero. Here’s the product description of this book from Amazon:
Around the world, mass transit is struggling to compete with the private automobile, and in many places, its market share is rapidly eroding.…
Do we need some stick with that carrot?
I went to an interesting discussion last night on Auckland’s public transport, what’s wrong with it and how we can make it better. The discussion was headed by transport planner Julie-Anne Genter, who is very knowledgeable in the field of transport planning, particularly in the area of looking at what the hidden subsidies are of various different transport options and what we need to do in order to rebalance our transport options and, in the end, save ourselves a whole heap of money.…
Urban Transit vs Commuter Transit
As I mentioned a few posts ago, I am reading a very interesting book at the moment by Paul Mees, called “A Very Public Solution“. The first few chapters of the book outlined the various problems with auto-dependency, why public transport use has declined so much over the past few decades, and why many of the steps taken to supposedly improve matters have actually ended up making them worse.…
Integrated Ticketing fiasco
Jon C at Auckland Trains has done an excellent post on the fiasco that Auckland’s integrated ticketing project is becoming, with Infratil using every dirty trick in the book trying to win the integrated ticketing contract, even though: ARTA announced in July that they had awarded the contract to Thales.…
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