One Step Closer to Integrated Ticketing
Keeping an eye on Auckland’s progress towards integrated ticketing over the past few years has been like experiencing Chinese Water Torture, or bashing one’s head against a wall repeatedly with frustration at the slowness and seeming ineptitude of all those involved.…
0 Comments Why is the Herald Scaremongering?
At first glance of the New Zealand Herald’s leading article today I was pretty worried, with rail electrification and integrated ticketing supposedly threatened by some fairly significant investment losses that the Regional Council (along with the rest of the world) has suffered in the past few months.…
Transport News
After a bit of a drought in transport news coming out of anywhere, it is almost something of a relief to see the Herald running a couple of articles today, on ticket-gates and the Manukau Harbour Crossing Project.
Regarding the ticket gates, surely they must be an inevitability.…
Integrated Ticketing – PLEASE!
I had resisted getting a bus-card for my Urban Express trips from work to home, largely out of protest more than anything else. I already have a “GoRider” pass from NZ Bus, which I can use for trips from home to the city or from work to the city and back.…
Slowness
Whilst I have many problems with Auckland’s public transport: frequencies, reliability (especially the trains), ticketing and so forth – I think perhaps the biggest issue, and one which doesn’t seem to get the attention that it should, is simply the fact that it’s so darn slow.…
Ticketing
Auckland’s public transport ticketing system probably annoys me more than most other things in life. In fact, there’s little good to be said about it at all. Let’s run through the problems: It’s slow. A lot of interaction with the bus driver or train clippie is necessary.…
How Many Bus Companies?
Auckland has always had fragmented ownership of its bus companies. Howick and Eastern have been operating as an independent private company since 1939, Birkenhead Transport for not much less than that. Plus back a few years before I started catching buses there was the Whenuapai bus company.…
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