ARTA cracking down on fare evaders
As the ticketing system on Auckland’s rail system is basically unchanged from how it would have worked 60 years ago, rather unsurprisingly a lot of people manage to avoid paying for their rides. ARTA have estimated that fare evaders cost the system around $1.5 million a year – which is fairly significant.…
11 Comments Integrated Ticketing v Integrated Fares Policy
After a whole pile of news about integrated ticketing at the end of last year, things have gone quiet in recent times. I have been assured that progress is being made (I wonder why it is that we get suspicious about public transport projects being forgotten about if we don’t hear regularly about their progress?)…
Free Public Transport?
A rather interesting discussion has emerged in the comments thread on my recent post “Speeding Up Public Transport” over whether there is an argument out there for making public transport free. This came about due to a comment by “Chris N“, questioning whether all the fuss, expense and delays caused by having a ticketing system were actually worth it.…
Speeding Up Public Transport
One of the biggest flaws with buses in Auckland at the moment is that they are generally so incredibly slow. There are probably just a few routes around Auckland where catching the bus is faster than driving – such as the Northern Busway and perhaps some arterials with bus lanes like Dominion Road and Onewa Road.…
Designing an integrated fare system for Auckland
We haven’t heard much about progress on the implementation of Auckland’s integrated ticketing system recently, although I have been assured by ARTA that things are “coming along”. The winning tenderer, Thales, has set up an office in Auckland and it seems that things are slowly grinding into action.…
“Squaresville” and the network effect
Over the last few weeks I have been putting together a series of posts about Paul Mees’s new book Transport for Suburbia: beyond the automobile age. It really is an excellent book, and I am getting to the real ‘meat’ of the book about how we can actually make our public transport systems drastically better.…
RWC + Auckland’s public transport = epic fail?
An interesting article appeared in the Dominion Post today, and is also on the “Stuff” website, raising the question of whether Auckland’s public transport system will be able to cope with the influx of visitors expected for the 2011 Rugby World Cup.…
2010
Well I suppose as it’s now the New Year we can roll out that crystal ball and have a bit of a think about what will happen this year – 2010. As an aside, I’m still not sure whether we’ll the year “twenty-ten” or “two-thousand-and-ten”.…
The Public Transport Management Act
When I look back at this year, from a transport perspective, I guess overall the feeling is that “things were turning into a mess, but largely they’ve been sorted out”. Electrification’s still happening, integrated ticketing’s still happening, there’s an investigation into the CBD Rail Tunnel underway, funding for Project DART is continuing, and so forth.…
Sunday PT – very unimpressive
I suppose I was asking for it, hoping to take public transport from Herne Bay to Sylvia Park on a Sunday and expecting it to not be complete and utter rubbish. Although, on the other hand past experiences haven’t been too bad.…
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