Tracking Auckland’s buses
An excellent new blog about public transport issues in Auckland has been started up by Suresh Patel. One of the most fascinating elements of the new blog is that it allows us a bit of an insight into some of the inner workings of Auckland’s public transport system, because Suresh is undertaking a Teacher Fellowship scheme, looking into the effectiveness of new technologies used by Auckland’s public transport systems.…
15 Comments PT Advocates: technicals & politicals
Alon Levy’s Pedestrian Observations blog has a fascinating post on the two group of ‘transit advocates’ in the USA, which he splits into the ‘technicals’ and the ‘politicals’. Here’s how he describes the two groups:
Politicals are the people who tend to trust the transit authorities, support a general expansion of all rail transit projects, and believe the primary problem is defeating oil-funded anti-transit lobbies.…
Auckland Transport Blog v Auckland Transport’s website
When it was decided that the new transport agency in Auckland would simply be called “Auckland Transport“, I thought it was amusing that if they ever wanted to run a blog, I’d got there first with the name of this blog.…
Exploring the connections between land-use planning and transport
I meet up with quite a few people in person as a result of this blog. Sometimes they’re people in official capacities – at Auckland Transport or wherever, other times they’re just interested readers who have contacted me via email to have a chat about transport stuff.…
Monthly Recap – January 2011
This is the start of a new feature on here, a quick recap of all of the posts we have had from throughout the month. I think most post titles are fairly self-explanatory but any that aren’t I will try and give a brief description.…
1000th Post
As you may have guessed from the title of this blog post, this is the 1000th post of Auckland Transport Blog, since the very first back in May 2008. The early posts of this blog were really simply a part of a previous blog that I used to run – that was more focused on my personal life.…
Vancouver’s “Buzzer” blog
While browsing through a few North American transport blogs I found myself looking at the “Buzzer blog”, from Vancouver. The interesting thing about Buzzer, is that it is a blog run by Translink – the organisation which operates Vancouver’s public transport system.…
John Roughan’s CBD rail tunnel fear
A couple of weeks back I commented on how poorly informed NZ Herald columnist John Roughan was in an article he wrote on how he “fears” the power and influence the future mayor of the Auckland Super City might have in pushing for public transport improvements.…
North America Trip
As I noted in yesterday’s blog post, which went on to rather dominate the comments thread, I will be out of the country in North America between September 3rd and September 26th. Leila and I are taking a three week holiday that has been about two years in planning.…
Anti-Spam issues
Over the past few days my anti-spam mechanism seems to have been getting a bit over-excited, and has been catching a lot of “false-positives” for some reason. Hopefully it sorts itself out after a while, as I really do need an anti-spam (otherwise the comments really would be flooded with spam).…
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