Rail timetable improvements from March
Auckland Transport’s CE report for today’s board meeting confirms that increases in train frequency – and the opening of the Manukau station – will occur in March (let’s hope at the very beginning of March to take advantage of the year’s busiest month).…
7 Comments Removing expensive bus/rail duplication
The weekend election results confirmed that money will be tight for public transport over the next three years. The proposed Government Policy Statement cuts PT infrastructure funding quite dramatically and while PT services (subsidies) funding increases, this will largely be eaten up by repayment for Auckland’s electric trains and the increased track access fee.…
My Outer Link regret
I first heard about the bus route that has become the “Outer Link” quite a long time ago, late last year I think – as kindly some people at Auckland Transport sought my ideas on what they were proposing. My initial response was fairly mixed: positive about the fact that the route links together so many places, provides for so many trips – particularly trips that public transport doesn’t traditionally provide for, by offering decent frequencies seven days a week and through its “loop” structure.…
The Outer LINK timetable
I must say I was a bit disappointed when I found out that Auckland Transport wouldn’t be publishing a timetable for the Outer Link bus service, which begins this Sunday. While not having a timetable encourages “turn up and go” use of the service, at a bus every 15 minutes I think its frequencies are somewhat pushing the limit of proper ‘turn up and go’.…
The new bus timetables
Some of the timetables for the routes of the Central Flagship Project bus changes have been uploaded to the MAXX website – they take effect from August 21. We have:
The 020 and 005 timetables.
The 030 and 005 timetables.
The 010 and 011 timetables. …
Guest Post: The West is being won, but is the South being lost?
This is a Guest Post by regular CBT forum contributor Jodi Johnston. If any readers wish to contribute a guest post please email the admin – details under “contact us”.
Background
For people who have seen my postings on the CBT Forum, this will all be familiar material to you all, and I do apologise that you have to see this again.…
Speed versus Frequency
The new train timetables that started up on September 19th have been running for almost exactly a month now. A major change in those timetables as an increase in frequency for Southern Line and (particularly) Eastern Line commuters, but a corresponding loss of almost all the express trains on the rail network.…
New train timetables
A series of new train timetables have been released, and will take effect from Sunday September 19th – the day the Onehunga Line starts running. The timetables are here:
Southern Line
Eastern Line
Western Line
Onehunga Line (yay – it actually exists!)…
Simplifying Timetables
As regular readers of this blog would well know, there are quite a few things about Auckland’s public transport system that annoy me. But perhaps what annoys me the most are things that wouldn’t cost much to fix, or those where the benefits of an improvement seem so significant that you can’t quite believe nobody’s done it yet.…
A Question
This may well be the shortest blog post of all times, but it is to raise a question that I have never had properly explained:
Why is is that Sunday’s public transport service levels have to be worse than Saturday’s?
In all my catching of public transport over the years I’ve seen no real evidence that patronage is much less on a Sunday than a Saturday, except for in the evening.…
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