Integrated Ticketing fiasco
Jon C at Auckland Trains has done an excellent post on the fiasco that Auckland’s integrated ticketing project is becoming, with Infratil using every dirty trick in the book trying to win the integrated ticketing contract, even though: ARTA announced in July that they had awarded the contract to Thales.…
17 Comments Integrated Ticketing – what’s happening?
Back in July ARTA announced that Thales had won the contract to provide Auckland’s integrated ticketing system. This came after a rather nasty few months of uncertainty after the Regional Fuel Tax was cancelled in March. However, the announcement brought that uncertainty to a close (or so I thought), and it certainly made things sound like we weren’t going to end up with some sort of half-arse solution – even though the funding available for the project had been rather significantly reduced.…
Why is NZ Bus being so stupid?
Firstly, let’s start with a few definitions:
Work-to-rule is an industrial action in which employees do no more than the minimum required by the rules of a workplace, and follow safety or other regulations to the letter in order to cause a slowdown rather than to serve their purpose.…
Letter to the NZ Herald published!
Well a letter to the editor I wrote at the end of last week got published in the NZ Herald today. As they don’t publish their letters to the editor online, I shall copy it out in full:
All the announcements of roading projects to be completed by the 2011 Rugby World Cup, such as the Victoria Park tunnel and the Newmarket Viaduct, make me wonder if tourists here for that event are expected to bring their cars with them.…
Me vs Trevor Mallard
I must say I am a big fan of Labour’s blog – Red Alert. It provides a great way of having some interaction with a number of MPs that normally just wouldn’t be possible. While I hope Labour don’t rely on it too much when putting together policy initiatives, it seems like the blog is a good way to get some feedback on ideas.…
Thales wins Integrated Ticketing contract
It’s odd that one would find out this incredibly important piece of news from a Computer Magazine, but that has been the case here. As I had hoped for when posting on the subject a few days ago, Thales have been awarded the contract for Auckland’s integrated ticketing system.…
Integrated ticketing news this week?
There’s a very interesting article on the Stuff website today which suggests that we might hear news on the integrated ticketing project this week. It seems like NZTA and the ARC have come to an agreement on the funding structure for this critical project that will replace the money that Auckland’s regional fuel tax was to provide.…
Another Nail in the Public Transport Coffin
Over the past few months I don’t think Steven Joyce could have destroyed public transport much more if he had tried (I guess he really is trying). Shifting hundreds of millions of dollars away from public transport and into state highway funding, cancelling Auckland’s regional petrol tax, delaying the ordering of electric trains, not making any commitments to funding integrated ticketing and so forth.…
The Importance of Integrated Ticketing
If one thing annoys me more than anything else in all the transport announcements we’ve seen over the past week or two – removal of the regional petrol tax, creation of a national petrol tax, news the government will pay for Auckland’s new electric trains, unsurprising news that the government is investing billions in state highways at the cost of everything else – it has been what has happened to Auckland’s integrated ticketing project.…
The Public Transport Roller-Coaster
Wow. What a crazy few days for public transport in Auckland. Firstly, on Friday we get what appears to be the worst news possible from Wellington, that the Regional Fuel Tax is likely to be scrapped. As electrification of the rail system, integrated ticketing, new ferry wharves and the PenLink road all depend upon regional fuel tax money, this threw everyone into a spin about how these things would be paid for.…
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