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Guest Post: Can Auckland do a Perth?
This is a Guest Post from regular commenter Patrick Reynolds Rail boardings in Auckland are now approaching about 10 million annually. Setting aside issues of kilometres traveled and reports of...
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Auckland’s PT: expensive and poorly used
An Auckland Council report on various aspects of our transport system makes a number of comparisons of Auckland’s public transport system with various cities in Australia, Canada and the USA – as well...
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Thinking long-term for our rail system
The Auckland Plan (submissions close October 31st) takes a fairly long-term viewpoint of Auckland’s future, looking to 2041 when the population may well be as high as 2.5 million. Here are the...
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What does ‘Transformational’ actually mean?
The word ‘Transformational’ is turning up frequently around discussions about Auckland’s future. I am encouraged by this as it surely means change. More than that doesn’t it particularly mean making...
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Guest Post: how can we make feeder buses work?
This is a Guest Post by commenter Peter, who has written previous posts here and here. There has been a lot of discussion in recent months about the need to improve Auckland’s bus network so that it...
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Fairfax papers focusing on the rail system
It appears that Fairfax is have a big focus on rail this week with most of the local papers – except the ones on the shore – having articles about the system. We have: Central Leader Western Leader...
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Population-weighted densities in New Zealand and Australia
Urban population density is a hot topic – some people complain that it’s getting too high in Auckland, while others worry that it’s too low to get the urban outcomes we want. Either way, density...
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Auckland vs Perth rail comparison updated
Yesterday in Peter’s post about building missing modes, reader Greg N made the following comment about his use of a graph we’ve been using for some time. That Perth v Auckland graph is getting pretty...
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Getting to an all electric network
Today marks the first time in Auckland that all train services on a normal weekday will be run by electric trains. While I’m sure there are bound to be more teething issues as a result, it represents a...
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Guest Post: A Visit to Perth, Western Australia
This is a guest post from reader and friend of the blog, Warren Sanderson If you are interested in the design of cities and transport, for those of us in Auckland this is indeed a very interesting...
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