Analysing the Dominion Road bus T2 lane issue
It is good to see that I’m not the only one out there who picked up on Auckland City Council’s absolutely crazy recent decision to ruin the bus lanes along Dominion Road by allowing T2 vehicles into them. On Friday last week, the NZ Herald ran a story on the issue, which included some quite interesting parts:
Buses are at risk of losing their supremacy in Auckland City’s most established commuter bus lanes, along 4.5km of Dominion Rd.…
18 Comments Getting the “QTN” right
As I noted in a recent post about ARTA’s “Regional Public Transport Plan“, I support much of the thinking behind their three tiered hierarchical route structure that they are seeking to achieve, which has three main levels: A backbone Rapid Transit Network (RTN) which is comprised of railway lines and busways;
A middle-level “Quality Transit Network” (QTN) which supports the RTN by providing high quality public transport in areas the RTN can’t reach – in short extensive bus lanes with high frequency services (in my mind at least);
The supporting Local Connector Network (LCN), which are our more typical buses, but probably running shorter routes to feed into the RTN or QTN.…
Bring on the Auckland Transport CCO!
Yes, I know. That’s a pretty painful blog title for me to post – considering I have opposed the Transport CCO for quite some time now, and in a number of different blog posts. But there have been a number of factors over the past few weeks that have led to me changing my opinion of Auckland’s future transport CCO quite significantly, which I will go through shortly.…
New Council and Transport Agency taking shape
Some interesting announcements in the last few days about senior positions in both the Auckland Council and the Auckland Transport CCO. Looking at the council first, the Auckland Transition Agency announced the following positions late last week:
Manager Customer Services: Nigel King, currently Group Manager Customer Services, Auckland City Council.…
Work begins on Onehunga Station (finally)
At long last, today we finally have some visible work going on constructing the Onehunga Station. I dropped by to take a few photos:
I must say there was a time when I was worried if the Onehunga Line was ever going to happen, that it might just randomly disappear off ARTA’s list of “to do” projects.…
ARTA’s Regional Public Transport Plan
Keeping up with all the transport strategies, plans and policies that float around in Auckland is a pretty hard task, but it would seem that the final version of a fairly important plan: the Regional Public Transport Plan, has been released today by ARTA.…
That Southeast RTN
As I have mentioned in a couple of recent posts, I am extremely worried that a lot of the work going on at the moment in planning important transport projects (like AMETI) and large-scale land-use planning projects (like Flat Bush) is ignoring one of the most important pieces in the puzzle of sorting out land-use and transport planning in a huge swathe of Auckland: its southeast.…
April 2010 Patronage: steady growth
ARTA’s April 2010 monthly business report is out, and the patronage news is solid, if not spectacular. Here’s a summary of the April report: As we can see from the long-term patronage graph below, April 2010 is a big drop from March 2010 – but that is typical, because of school and university holidays.…
New Lynn station: taking shape
On the weekend I went out to take some photos of New Lynn train station, to see what progress is being made on its redevelopment. One half of the rail trench opened back in March, and since then there has been a lot of additional work on building the other half of the trench, as well as constructing the station building that will sit on top of the trench.…
Transport in the next five years
Having finally got the 30 year Regional Land Transport Strategy completed, it’s important to look at the question “where to next?” This is particularly important to consider when you realise how the whole management of transport in Auckland is going to be revolutionised in the next few months, with the creation of the Auckland Transport CCO.…
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