The true test of Auckland Transport
It’s now almost two and a half years since Auckland Transport came into existence: joining together the transport functions of ARTA and all the old Councils into one organisation. There was a lot of angst around Auckland Transport’s creation – why should something as political and as debated as transport be pushed away into a separate organisation from the Council?…
22 Comments Transport in 2011: some steps forward, some steps backwards
Trying to get my head around whether 2011 was a good year or not such a good year for advocates of a more balanced transport system like myself, is a bit of a challenge. There were a number of good things which happened, but at the same time there were also a number of steps backward.…
October PT Patronage – more records broken
Much like September, the Rugby World Cup helped to boost October public transport patronage to some pretty impressive levels, especially for the rail network which had over 1.2 million trips, a new record. The monthly PT patronage report has all the details, and here’s a summary:It’s pretty impressive to see that we’re closing in on 70 million trips as our 12 month rolling total.…
September patronage details
About a week ago I blogged about some basic patronage statistics for September – which were pretty spectacular. Auckland Transport has now released the detailed patronage report for September, which confirms the huge numbers (partly due to the Rugby World Cup of course).…
Integrated ticketing moves forward (slowly)
Further detail on the painfully slow implementation of integrated ticketing in Auckland was outlined in the October business report to the board of Auckland Transport. With the project being somewhat distracted by the silly A-Pass over the past few months, hopefully with the World Cup out of the way we might start seeing some real progress in the next few months: There are two interesting things to note in the paragraph above, first is that in February next year we will start to see something of a further rollout – with what’s called the “Limited Functionality Pilot”.…
Huge PT patronage in September
The full public transport patronage report for September is yet to be released, but hidden within the general business report for the October board meeting we can see some pretty spectacular numbers – to be expected of course due to the Rugby World Cup:
September 2011 patronage was 6,634,342 passenger trips across public transport, an increase of +18.7% compared to September 2010.…
July NZTA Board Papers
NZTA continue to refuse to publish their board papers online (even though they spend around $3 billion of taxpayers’ money a year), so in the cause of increased transparency I have been doing Official Information Act requests for their board papers for a while now.…
Independent RWC transport report released
Auckland Transport have just in the last hour or so released the independent report into what went wrong on opening night of the Rugby World Cup. The report was prepared by Chris Moore of Meredith Connell and is a fairly extensive document at 48 pages.…
Transport plan for weekend’s rugby tests
The All Blacks versus France rugby match at Eden Park tomorrow night will probably be the biggest test of the transport system since the debale of opening night. Auckland Transport seem to be well prepared this time around though, as well as for Sunday’s game between Samoa and Fiji which has also sold out:
Extra transport for fans heading to Eden Park matches
Extra trains and special event buses will be operating for fans heading to this weekend’s double-header of Rugby World Cup 2011 matches at Eden Park.…
The transport system worked
After the chaos of last week, it was good to hear that Auckland’s public transport system worked well for those attending the Ireland versus Australia game at Eden Park on Saturday night. A Herald article today somewhat contradicts itself by saying that the buses and trains were ready but everyone drove – then noting some fairly large numbers of people who did catch the bus and train:
The Herald on Sunday polled 100 fans as they turned up for the game and found a mere 22 took the train to Eden Park.…
Processing...