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We still have a few tickets left to our fundraising event that is making this possible, be in quick!…
15 Comments Server Migration In Progress
We are currently migrating the Auckland Transport blog to our own dedicated Auckland based server. Comments are disabled for a short time while we do that.…
Fundraising Film Night
We are all really pleased to announce a fundraising film night for the Auckland Transport Blog in August. With kind sponsorship from Isthmus Group, MRCagney, Auckland Transport, Odyssey Wines, CityHop and Tim Gummer Design we have a really fantastic evening with a really fantastic film in store.…
A City Rail Link Page
A number of times over the past few weeks we have criticised both Auckland Council and Auckland Transport for the poor job they’re doing when it comes to selling the benefits of the City Rail Link project, with a result of that being a sometimes pathetically poor understanding of the project’s benefits, what it actually costs, what it will do, what it won’t do, why an overhead option is a silly idea and so on.…
Improving the Blog
Readers may have noticed in recent days/weeks that the blog seems to be loading up quite slowly. Furthermore, we have been getting quite a lot of database connection errors and the like – which are just plain annoying (especially if you’re in the middle of typing up a post).…
Allowing change, not forcing it
Those promoting a transport and urban outcome based around smart growth, a compact city, a more balanced transport policy and more investment in public transport, walking and cycling – instead of on road capacity – have long based their arguments on the need for change.…
Last Post
Tomorrow I start work as a transport planner for the Council, and so ends my stint as a blogger on this site. As I outlined in more detail in this post and this post, this blog has meant a lot to me over the past few years and it has been truly awesome to see it develop from a personal blog that pretty much nobody read into what the site is today – something that is seemingly quite influential and gets around 2,000 views a day during the week.…
Blog Statistics
With only a few days to go of my contribution to this blog, I thought I’d have a look back at some of the statistics of this blog. A few of them can be seen down the left-hand side of this page – as I write we have: 1,688 posts
1,266,909 words in those posts
26,198 comments
2,249,494 words in those comments But some statistics can only really be seen behind the scenes, so for your curiosity here are a few: 1,198,579 all time views
3,771 views on the blog’s busiest day ever – which was May 31st last year (the day the review of the City Rail Link business case was released)
Aside from the main page, the most visited post ever is this one on the world’s best rail systems (generally because it is a high result when searching for maps of Tokyo’s rail network).…
The future of transport blogging
I was sad to read, back in late December, that Jon C, who runs the AKT blog, is moving to Australia and won’t be able to continue posting on the blog in the future. This blog and AKT have always been quite complementary to each other – predominantly because I don’t have a hope in hell posting as frequently and getting out to take as many photos of developments around the Auckland rail network as Jon managed.…
Secrecy hurts the transport debate
Last week something rather sad happened. After my blog post on the systems used to track buses around Auckland brought attention to a fairly new blog on transport issues in Auckland, there was obviously some pretty messy stuff happening behind the scenes which led to the aforementioned blog being taken down, apparently because it had ‘overstepped the mark’ and shared information it shouldn’t have.…
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