Comments on: Integrated Ticketing – what’s happening?

By: uroskin

uroskin — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 00:00:09 +0000

The Orca Card for Auckland should even be extended to be used for toll road/bridge payments, which should please the libertarian road warriors.

By: Cam

Cam — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 00:12:50 +0000

Yes i agree integrated ticketing and electrification are both vital. These two projects should hopefully provide a large boost to patronage that will ensure the momentum keeps going. Which in turn should mean greater public demand for further improvements.

Then again maybe Stephen Joyce knows this and that’s why both projects have suffered such long delays.

By: admin

admin — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 23:11:57 +0000

Yes it can be depressing at times, certainly difficult to actually acjieve anything and just when we think something is sorted more problems arise. It is essential that we do integrated ticketing and electrification properly, then they will get the momentum going and everything will go from there.

By: Cam

Cam — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 22:53:34 +0000

I agree Jeremy, it is soul destroying sometimes being a PT supporter in this city. Two steps forward and two back. Anything that’s advanced to make the place more people friendly and livable meets with opposition from small minded yokels who fear change like a cave man fears fire.

I notice on the auckland trains blog there is now a suggestion that CBD retailers are up in arms over the shared streets project.

Sometimes it does just make you want to pack up and leave the idiots to it, that way at least they could have the city to themselves, have it the way they want it and people like the ones who post here (excluding Liberty Scott)could move elsewhere and save ourselves the aggrivation (of course many already do). Everyone could have a motorway on their doorstep and Auckland could sprawl between Hamilton and Whangerei, endless strip malls and carparks could line the sides of the motorways. After all that’s what many seem to want.

Ok rant over. Just had to get that out of my system

By: Joshua

Joshua — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 19:40:51 +0000

Infratil are looking like sore lossers, hopefully the funds have been approved for the Thales system and NZTA have just haven’t publicly stated yet, we don’t want the budget version, we want the effective transport solution and it’s not snapper.

By: Jeremy Harris

Jeremy Harris — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 11:59:55 +0000

Good point, educating the masses, fighting the government and public transport providers… Sheesh, I might as well jump on a plane to Vancouver, Portland or Melbourne where half the job is finished…

By: admin

admin — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 08:48:40 +0000

Except it seems like we’re fighting Infratil half the time….

By: Jeremy Harris

Jeremy Harris — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 08:37:00 +0000

It is a fight every step of the way in this car mad city…