October-23 AT Board Meeting
Yesterday the Auckland Transport board met again and here are some of the highlights from it. Closed Agenda
One of the things that’s been notable in recent meetings is that far fewer items are being put in the closed session – and consequently the open sessions have far more interesting papers in them.…
47 Comments Fares and Fuel to go back up
In March last year, shortly after Russia launched its horrific invasion of Ukraine, the government cut fuel taxes, road user charges and public transport fares “as part of a cost of living package“.
PT fares were halved while fuel taxes dropped by 25 cents per litre (almost 29 cents once you include GST) and initially were only meant to last for three months.…
June-23 AT Board Meeting
Yesterday was the latest Auckland Transport board meeting and we’ve already covered Gt North Rd and AT’s budget. But as I said in yesterday’s post, there was a lot on the agenda so here’s what else was interesting. Gt North Rd
Jolisa covered the potential Gt North Rd outcomes on Monday and the great news is that the board have signed the project off in its full form, promising to find the funding shortfall to deliver the entire thing.…
AT’s Capital Programme for 2023/24
Today is Auckland Transport’s board meeting and there’s a lot on the agenda. Yesterday Jolisa covered the latest from the Great North Rd saga, and today it’s AT’s budget for the next financial year.
Next week the central and local government starts a new financial year.…
The Cost of Cars
This is a guest post from Cameron Pitches is the former Convenor for the Campaign for Better Transport. These days he’s the Technology Manager at PortConnect It should be a surprise to nobody that cars are expensive to own and operate.…
Reducing the costs of PT projects
Over the last decade or so we’ve seen our governments far more to build (or at least talk about building) a proper rapid transit network for Auckland. Yet over the same time we’ve also seen the costs to deliver such a network dramatically increase to become some of the most expensive projects per km in the world, for example, as we’ve covered before, even the Auckland light rail team’s surface option was 2-6 times more expensive per km that is achieved in most cities overseas.…
2023 – The Year Ahead
Welcome to 2023. After wrapping up 2022 before Christmas, here’s a look at some of the things we can expect to see and will be watching for this year. Public Transport
Public Transport Disruption
Disruption to our PT network dominated much of last year, first with the driver shortages then with news of the planned rail network shutdowns, the first of which is now underway. …
Mapping changes in Auckland’s youngish adult population
This is a guest post by Aaron Schiff, a freelance economist and data scientist. A version of this post originally appeared on his blog. Many people aged in their 20s and 30s are leaving home, entering and/or completing education, are at the beginning of their working lives, and possibly starting families.…
June AT Board Meeting
Today the AT board meet again and here are the highlights from their board reports. You can also watch the open session of the meeting live between 9am and 10:15am via this Microsoft Teams link. Closed Agenda
Below are the most interesting items from the closed agenda.…
“No, Minister”
This is a guest post by sustainable transport and accessibility advocate Tim Adriaansen
Following the Liberate the Lane rally on May 30th last year, Transport Minister Michael Wood wrote to Waka Kotahi Chair Brian Roche, requesting the transport agency investigate options to trial walking and cycling across the Auckland Harbour Bridge.…
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