Herald Transport Cartoons
For the second day in a row the Herald cartoon has been transport related.…
16 Comments The Great Inversion
Which city is this?:
“Like most cities, X once had an extensive streetcar system, but as in most of them, this was essentially destroyed after World War II. From the 1950s to the 1980s, as X was ringing the entire metropolitan area with freeways, public transport was limited to an inadequate and generally unreliable bus network.”…
EMU Video
A bit like they did with the CRL, AT have released a video about the new EMUs we will be getting next year. and so now you all know what I look like which I guess means it gets harder for me to hide.…
Petrol taxes hiked by 9c a litre over three years
The NZ Herald reports:
The Government will increase petrol tax by three cents a litre each July 1 for the next three years.
Transport Minister Gerry Brownlee said road user charges would also be increased by an equivalent amount.
He said the increases were required to deliver the “Roads of National Significance” programme and other roading projects to the timeline set out in the Government’s land transport funding policy.…
December AT Board Meeting
Today is the last Auckland Transport board meeting for the year and there is quite a bit on the agenda. Here are some of the more interesting bits, first from the main business report.
The New Lynn train station and trench won the supreme excellence award for engineering excellence, what I found particularly funny was that the award was presented by Steven Joyce
The draft Regional Public Transport Plan (RPTP) recieved 700 submissions and after hearings in the new year, is set to be adopted in March.…
It’s a bus capacity problem
One part of the City Centre Future Access Study that is particularly interesting to look through is Appendix C – the deficiency analysis. This effectively highlights in more detail what ‘the problem’ is in terms of future access to central Auckland.…
November 2012 Patronage Stats
As Mr Anderson said on Saturday, patronage results for November are out and they don’t look pretty, which in the case of rail is being largely blamed on the introduction of HOP. Here are the ‘highlights’: Annual Auckland public transport patronage for the 12-month period to end-November 2012 was 69,873,178 boardings an increase of +1.1% (+767,096 boardings) compared to the 12-month period to end-November 2011.…
Why AWHC is the stupidest transport project ever
In the fallout from the release of the City Centre Future Access Study last Thursday and the government’s rather bizarre response to it, for some reason there seems to have been renewed discussion about the Additional Waitemata Harbour Crossing (AWHC) project.…
Reducing rail fare evasion
The November patronage statistics highlight that the dip in rail use continues. Like September and October, when the Rugby World Cup last year made comparisons a bit silly, in November there’s a reasonable explanation for the dip: the transition to use of the AT Hop card means that trips are no longer counted at the time of purchase (for 10 ride tickets) but instead at the time the trip is actually made.…
Some things never change
The governments dismissal of the City Rail Link the other day isn’t the first time and it may not be the last time yet either. But looking back in history it seems like the tactics employed by the government today seem not that different from those previous attempts.…
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