How to get to the beach (without ruining it for everyone)
A bunch of us got talking about recent stories about getting to the beach, or having difficulties doing so, and Jolisa and Marita put together this post as a result.
With the weather – and the water – warming up, Aucklanders are flocking to the beaches (including some newly swimmable ones, hooray!).…
The 5 best improvements as part of the Central New Network
The New Network for Auckland’s Central suburbs launches this Sunday (July 8). While we have written about our disappointments with some areas, there are many really great changes that will help people get around our city. In my view the best changes are as follows:
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Smarter Buses Series – Pt 4 We need to talk about the Links
This post continues my recent series on how we can make big improvements to bus journeys through relatively small changes. In part one I looked at Khyber Pass and the need for us to be more flexible in providing better bus lanes.…
Updated Central New Network Map
The other day I noticed that the Central New Network Map now due to be rolled out second quarter next year had been updated Some changes I have noticed Instead of having greyed out Northwest services the map has a line called West.…
Airport Rapid Transit: A Way Forward.
Below is a post I wrote in August 2016. We are re-running it now because it is confirmed what we have learnt since from both the seemingly endless number of reports on this issue and the increasingly dysfunctional traffic in the area.…
Small Steps Giant Leaps Campaign – Better Timed Transfers
We often talk about the big projects, networks, as well as game changing best practice regulations. However what about the small things, low hanging fruit where for cheaply i.e. not for 100s of millions of dollars we can achieve with a “Small Step” a “Great Leap” for the people the project & area it effects, part 3 is about the difficultly of transfers in the off peak.…
Central Access Plan – Mass Transit for the Isthmus
In July Auckland Transport stealthily uploaded a 97 page Programme Business Case on the Light Rail page of the AT website. Due to ATAP (Auckland Transport Alignment Project), the Unitary Plan and City Rail Link (CRL) has gone a little bit under the radar.…
The Victoria St Linear Park: Why it is vital, but not really a park.
This is one of a series of posts I intend to do about about the city streetscape we ought to be able to expect as a result of the CRL rebuild.
This one will describe the Council’s plans for inner western Victoria St, around the CRL portals, because it seems they are not well understood, especially by some at Auckland Transport, based on the recent release of a proposed design from the CRL team that appears to completely ignore the agreed streets level outcomes.…
Guest Post: March Madness Marches On
This is a guest post from reader Stephen Davis and was originally posted here.
Regular readers of TransportBlog will be familiar with March Madness. With workers, students and kids all trying to use public transport simultaneously, it’s the busiest month of the year.…
Central and East New Network Outcome
On Monday, the Auckland Transport Board are expected to rubber stamp the outcome of the final and biggest of the major consultations for the new bus network, Central and East Auckland. The consultation was held at the end of last year and AT say they received over 3,700 pieces of feedback for the Central network and almost 1,200 pieces of feedback for the East Auckland network. …
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