Comments on: Improving the Northern Busway

By: C.Appleton

C.Appleton — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 22:20:33 +0000

Akoranga desperately needs park and ride facilities to service the peninsula south of Takapuna and surrounds, as 25% of the northern motorway traffic use the Esmonde ramps. The ideal site would be that of the proposed “Korean Garden” opposite to the driving range, and next to the College.

By: Mr Kiwi Fruit

Mr Kiwi Fruit — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 12:38:55 +0000

Express routes serving Milford, Forrest Hill, Castor Bay, Wairau Valley, Glenfield, Sunnybrae, Bayview and Windy Ridge operate through this station.

By: jarbury

jarbury — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 07:45:27 +0000

I don’t have much experience with the busway (having only used it on Sundays to catch a Northern Express from the city to Albany and back) but I think that a lot of routes start in the suburbs before joining the busway at various points. In addition to these routes there is the Northern Express which solely runs along the busway and is used by people who park and ride and by others who catch local buses then transfer onto it at the busway stations.

I can’t imagine many stations other than Sunnynook having much of a ‘walk-up’ catchment. Hopefully this will change over time and council must do what they can to make it easy for development to focus around the busway stations.

By: George Darroch

George Darroch — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 04:20:47 +0000

The area surrounding that busway is a walking desert.

Do you know if there are bus routes to this station?

By: Ben

Ben — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 01:23:00 +0000

Surely with increasing bus patronage, it will become desireable and make economic sense for businesses to locate next to one of the bus stations. What is needed is for the council to make it as easy as possible for this to happen.