Weekend street closures and bus changes
From this weekend for the rest of the Rugby World Cup there will be significantly more streets closed to traffic than had been originally planned. From midday Friday until late Sunday, the following streets will be either completely closed to traffic or only open to some traffic:
I’m quite fond of this idea, being someone who generally likes streets being for pedestrians rather than cars.…
13 Comments Public Transport lets Auckland down
Hopefully this will be my last blog post on last Friday’s events. My overwhelming feeling of the events that unfolded nearly a week ago was that Auckland’s public transport system had let the city down. Aside from the overcrowding issues around “Party Central”, including the bizarre failure to close Queen Street to cars, everything else (aside from the public transport) worked a charm last Friday.…
What went wrong?
I went along to some of the Auckland Council meeting which took place today about the events of Friday. There are three reports which were produced and discussed at the meeting:
Auckland Council’s overall summary of events
Auckland Transport’s review of the transport issues
ATEED’s report into the crowd control issues around Quay Street between Queen’s Wharf and the Viaduct
The Auckland Council report summarises the two significant problems that occurred, and therefore what the reports move onto discussing.…
The plot thickens
There were some interesting developments in the response to Friday’s transport and overcrowding problems this afternoon. Stuff reports:
The Government will use special powers under Rugby World Cup legislation to take control of the Auckland waterfront set aside for the celebrations during the tournament.…
The other Friday transport failures
In the aftermath of Friday’s transport debacle, a lot of focus has gone on the people who didn’t make it to Eden Park because of problems with the rail network. To an extent this is justified, because these people had paid a lot of money for their tickets and it’s shameful the system let them down.…
RWC transport fail – and what to do about it
I have had a couple of days to think about what happened on Friday night, particularly in terms of the mess that happened with Auckland’s public transport network. It seems that there were an enormous number of contributing factors to what happened, some which should have been foreseen, others were perhaps the result of bad luck.…
RWC Opening Photos
While there was much transport chaos last night, there were also some pretty amazing scenes. Here are some of the photos I managed to take: The photo above was taken at around 1pm, when I went out to get my lunch.…
Oh dear…
Well that was an interesting day. On the one hand, I’ve never seen Auckland’s city centre so busy, vibrant and exciting. But on the other hand, well…
Auckland’s transport system ground to a halt tonight, stopping thousands of rugby fans getting to the opening game of the Rugby World Cup on time.…
An exciting day for Auckland
Today is a pretty exciting day for Auckland, with the start of the Rugby World Cup and what promises to be a pretty giant party celebrating the start of the tournament.
All week the city has had this “building up” feeling, getting busier and busier by the day and feeling more and more festive.…
A-Pass launched for World Cup
The NZ Herald reports on the launch of a special public transport ticket for use during the Rugby World Cup, to be known as the “A-Pass”:
The A-Pass has been rushed into production to provide overseas visitors with the type of electronic transport ticket many will be used to in their home cities.…
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