What’s up with PTOM
Bus contracts might seem like a fairly boring topic to most people, but they can have a big impact on how our transport system operates – including, obviously, how much we as tax/ratepayers pay. In New Zealand we’re slowly moving towards a new contracting system known as the Public Transport Operating Model (PTOM).…
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Public transport patronage has been source of much concern for the last year and a half on the back of falling or flat numbers which followed about 6 years of almost constant growth. During that time the performance of the PT network has come under ever increasing scrutiny as public discussion and interest in transport has increased. …
What is PTOM?
The term PTOM has started to be bandied about quite a bit as one of the major changes associated with PT that is happening over the next few years. However many people might not know what it s or why it is important, so with this post I wanted to look a little closer at it.…
What Next
By almost any measure, Aucklands public transport system leaves a lot to be desired. Among other things it is often seen as slow, expensive, difficult to use and pretty unreliable but thankfully things are starting to improve and that is already starting to show through in our patronage stats.…
PTOM – a step in the right or wrong direction?
Last Friday saw what seemed like a belated announcement – that the Public Transport Operating Model (PTOM) had acquired all its necessary approvals and will be implemented in the relatively near future. PTOM is the system under which bus and ferry services will be contracted by regional councils (or Auckland Transport).…
Improving Auckland’s PT: what we need to do
At last month’s meeting of the Auckland Council Transport Committee there was a very interesting “benchmark study” that compared a wide variety of measures of public transport in Auckland with a number of cities around the world. Inevitably, Auckland performed worst in most of the measures – even when compared against other cities like Perth, Brisbane and Calgary that have much lower population densities, traditionally seen as a fundamental reason for Auckland’s poor performance.…
Getting more from our PT subsidies
Herald columnist Brian Rudman wrote a good article yesterday, highlighting the need to get better value out of the amount of money we spend on public transport subsidies. This was an issue touched upon at Tuesday’s transport committee meeting, specifically in the presentation by Auckland Transport CEO David Warburton.…
Finally we learn something about “PTOM”
There has been a long-running debate raging over the future of the “Public Transport Management Act” since it was passed in 2008. Infratil, who run NZ Bus (who are the largest bus operators in Auckland), were very displeased with this legislation and took their concerns to the new Minister of Transport after the 2008 election, Steven Joyce.…
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