How to grow PT patronage
In recent years patronage on public transport across the Auckland region clearly has grown fairly significantly. Boardings in 2009 were the highest for many many years, with rail patronage in particular the highest perhaps ever in Auckland. This is shown in the graph below, which comes from the ARC’s Auckland Regional Land Transport Strategy: Report on Progress 2007/09, which is the document that the interesting article in the NZ Herald last week on how public transport trips are getting longer, was based on.…
4 Comments Separating land-use and transport planning = bad idea
One of the most concerning aspects of how the structure of local government in Auckland is shaping up is the structural separation that will be created between those in charge of land-use planning (a fairly large chunk of the policy and strategy part of the future Auckland Council) and those in charge of transportation planning (the completely separate Auckland Transport CCO).…
PT trips getting longer
There’s a fascinating article in the NZ Herald today about how trips on Auckland’s public transport system are getting longer and longer (distance wise, hopefully not time-wise!) These sections are particularly noteworthy:
Although a 7.7 per cent rise in public transport patronage in 2008-2009 was hailed as impressive when announced late last year, a table at the back of a report presented to the Auckland Regional Transport Committee yesterday disclosed a far higher proportional leap in kilometres travelled…
…The Auckland Regional Transport Authority reported 58.62 million subsidised passenger trips in 2008-09, covering 435.4 million km, at a cost to ratepayers and taxpayers through regional and Government subsidies of $143.5 million.…
How to fix congestion
Earlier this week the Auckland Regional Council released their “State of the Environment Report” The whole report makes for quite interesting reading, analysing the pressures faced by Auckland, what steps have been taken to protect the environment from the pressures, and what further steps probably need to be taken.…
Mike Lee on Auckland Transport
An interesting interview on Radio NZ yesterday of Mike Lee about the Super City reform process. In particular, he makes some interesting points about Auckland Transport. A full transcript of the interview is here, but here are some interesting parts of what he says:
KATHRYN RYAN: These are the Auckland assets currently held by the Auckland Regional Council which is the body that you currently chair.…
ARC hammers Auckland Transport
The Auckland Regional Council presented its submission on the 3rd Super City bill today, and (putting it mildly) it is absolutely damning. The full details of what was said can be found here, and I include matters relating to transport below:
Transport Overview – Mike Lee
The area of most concern to the ARC is transport.…
More opposition to the Super City Bill
At the moment every day it seems as though another group, council or prominent person is picking massive holes in the Local Government (Auckland Law Reform) Bill. I have previously commented on the feedback on this bill from North Shore City Council, Auckland Regional Council, the Campaign for Better Transport, Len Brown and the New Zealand Herald (by way of an editorial).…
Waterview Updates
There are some interesting updates on the Waterview Connection in this month’s agendas of the Auckland Regional Council Transport & Urban Development Committee and the Auckland City Council Transport Committee. Before I specify the details, remember that this is the kind of information that would not be publicly available under the proposed Super City legislation relating to Auckland Transport.…
Urban Limits under threat
The “urban sprawl” versus “compact city” debate has long been a great interest of mine. In fact I wrote my Master’s thesis on the topic – “From Urban Sprawl to Compact City? An analysis of Auckland’s growth management strategies“. There’s a lengthy article in the NZ Herald today on the topic, and on the proposed legislative changes seem to be directing Auckland away from its focus on intensification (the ‘compact city’ approach) and more back towards sprawl, or greenfields development.…
ARC on “Auckland Transport”
The Auckland Regional Council’s draft submission on the Local Government (Auckland Law Reform) Bill is available for a read on their website. As a whole it certainly makes for interesting reading – and is incredibly damning of aspects of the bill such as the structure of many Council-Controlled-Organisations (CCOs).…
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