Past Posts

1000 most recent posts listed below:

Clarity on the Unitary Plan
Arguments against the CRL never change
HOP rolling out to buses from June
Counting Pedestrians
Government to override their Housing Accord with the Council
AT Launches the new PT Network
Road pricing is not a revenue-raising measure; QED it is not (necessarily) inequitable
Minimum Parking Requirements and the Unitary Plan
Auckland You Drive Me Crazy!
Michael Barnett on the ITP and Alternative Funding
New photos of electric train progress
What We Feed: Grows
Progress on new shared spaces
The convention centre and transport
Electrification project running late
Hop Saga Continues
Further clarifications about time-of-use transport pricing
Site Stats and User Guidelines
Mapping changes over 30 years
Auckland Housing Accord announced
Funding gap or efficiency gap?
Will Sci-Fi become reality?
How much rail in Newmarket has changed
Auckland’s Historic PT Patronage
Guest Post: Why I love intensification in my neighbourhood
Stopping Auckland’s Growth – a slippery slope
A smoother bus ride
Lampooning Lambourne – And other brain-eating transport zombies
Should we be installing freight lanes?
Te Atatu Bus Interchange hits stormy waters
Radio Live discussion on transport issues
How does CRL benefit each part of Auckland?
Cycling on Sunday
The government’s annoying funding myth
The impact of Maurice standing for mayor
How to “keep Auckland moving”?
Piece of Cake #2 = “Too Hard”, Piece of Cake #3
Are all “Metropolitan Centres” created equal?
Shakes, Guns and Automobiles
Gerry Brownlee interviewed about transport issues in Auckland
Finally some balance in the Housing debate
How genuine are the supposed “bus fans”?
Trends in vehicle travel in NZ
AT cracking down on train fare evaders
Funding Transport in the Future
Misinformation continues about the CRL
Rodney Hide on the CRL
The NZ Herald: Whipping up fear?
How will our roads cope with 20% more vehicles on them?
Why is the Herald being so one sided over the Unitary Plan?
An update on the Karaka-Weymouth bridge
How the millennials may be shaping our future
Aerial Photos of Waterview
On Street CBD parking changes a success
To clean or not to clean?
Developments in Newmarket and New Lynn get the green light
Intensification isn’t just about the young
Movement and Place – Taking a historical perspective
Progress at Mt Albert Station
Ensuring “quality” intensification in the Unitary Plan
Dealing with cheating drivers
Why I want intensification in my neighbourhood
Changes to the draft RPTP
Auckland Transport releases 6 month report
Why does NZ not support Travel Plans?
Campbell Live on the HOP system
March 2013 Patronage
Council releases 3D models of Town Centres
The cost of parking in the CBD
Julie Anne Genter and Bill English in Parliament
The Elevated Rail proposal is back
How Much Upzoning Does The Unitary Plan Really Enable And Is That Much Likely?
Apartment developments on the rise
We need to stop underselling PT
NIMBYs: Redefining community?
Guest Post: 23 reasons why trams are awesome
Good and Bad bus drivers
Ngati Whatua on the Unitary Plan
Oil, Thatcher, and the Wealth of Nations
More info on the Manukau Southern Rail Link … kind of
Electric Bikes – The perfect complement to transit in Auckland
Scaremongering about Metropolitan Centres
NZTA is pushing on with the Puhoi to Warkworth motorway
What is happening with the CBD street upgrades?
AT missing key opportunities to promote HOP
What was wrong with the modelling done for the CCFAS
Federated Farmers back the Unitary Plan
The Pullman Hotel – Scant regard for the public realm?
Is the Coastal Pacific Really Losing Money?
Reconnect Auckland: a transport campaign led by the Green Party
Do we need a port in downtown Auckland?
AT HOP penalty fare to increase
What’s happening with car sales
The MoT and the CCFAS
We’re on Facebook ….. Finally
“CANDo 2013: Inspiring Change” in Auckland this April
The Decongestive That Works
NIMBYs strike in Onehunga
Learning from Melbourne about selling PT changes
A Karaka-Weymouth bridge?
What if Subway Stores were actually Subway stations?
What can we learn from Waterview?
Government study brings back “Eastern Highway”
High speed rail – the solution to Auckland’s growth?
How Sprawly is the Unitary Plan?
The REAL cost of congestion
Government Misleads on Public Transport Spending In Auckland
Should the speed limit on motorways be increased?
Integrated Transport Programme Approved
Why are we still building suburbs like this?
Feb 2013 Patronage
Progress on Symonds Street, plus Piece of Cake #2
The (rubbish) Integrated Transport Programme
Where are the Red Light Cameras?
Concerns over the Te Atatu bus interchange
City Rail Link video
CRL in Parliament again
Sprawl in the Northwest
Unitary Plan – further thoughts
The hidden access ways of the CBD
Urban Limits discussed in parliament
Train, Bus, Tram, or Camel?
Should Auckland continue to grow so much?
Funding Aucklands future transport
Unitary Plan Youth Video Competition Finalists
CRL Submissions Close Tomorrow
FBT WTF: Suspiciously vocal opposition?
Unitary Plan – first thoughts
Te Atatu Bus Interchange
Piece of Cake #1, Barnes Dance Repair
Draft Unitary Plan released Today
HOP and events
Housing affordability – it’s not about detached houses
Time to Invest in Vital New ‘Pipe’
EMU production photos
Hear Human Transit’s Jarrett Walker in Auckland
The land supply issue
A fight looming over charging FBT on carparks
How future proofed is it really?
Rudman on the recent transport chaos
What is the cost of congestion?
Setting up PT to fail for a weekend of big events
Avoiding “gridlock”
A monster is on the way
Increasing PT Patronage
Disruption and Discontinuity: How Change Happens
Govt to force sprawl?
How to link North Shore rail into the network?
Good work NZTA
A ride on our first Double Decker
Who supports the CRL, and who doesn’t?
Trams in Trouble at Wynyard
My issue with the Transmission Gully PPP
“Piece of Cake improvement” Painting the town crossings red
Get Connected – Futures in public transport? Careers evening at UoA
Let’s not do this kind of thing
Rethinking Ponsonby Road
Who else is looking forward to this?
What’s most important to you?
Govt sponsored report backs the Auckland Plan
How would you spend $10b on transport?
What’s the deal with transport emissions?
How cities fail their cyclists … Auckland
Does the East-West link make any sense?
How much sprawl in Christchurch?
The beginning of the end for working from home?
Fixing Level Crossings
Auckland’s such a beautiful city
Why aren’t we getting what we want?
The Integrated Transport Programme
The true test of Auckland Transport
CRL marketing fail?
Better buses
Hobsonville and Beach Haven Ferry gets a temporary price drop
Dec 2012 and Jan 2013 Patronage
What to watch out for in the Unitary Plan
It’s the little things…
Double Deckers are almost here
City Rail Link – not if but when?
NIMBYs strike the Skypath
The brilliance of bus lanes
An Alternate CRL Route?
Unitary Plan youth video competition
Urban Math
The importance of speed!
What would happen to Petrol if….?
Growing public transport patronage – Expansion or retention?
Here comes the Census
What would New York do?
Kiwis want more spent on Public Transport
“We are what we repeatedly do”: “Why you should travel young”
Making light-rail make sense
CRL Open day
A few “piece of cake” pedestrian improvements
Improving Station Access – Ranui
A visit to Hobsonville Point Development
“Piece of Cake” pedestrian improvements
Drawing the (broken yellow) line – safety steps for bikes on New North Road
Employers discriminating against PT catchers
Blueprint for transport from 1976
Frustrating driving situations
You know you’re winning when…
“Skypath” across harbour to become a reality?
Hailo – The Killer App for the Taxi Industry?
Does a “Manukau Southern Link” make sense?
Making public transport fun
Westgate pedestrian and cycle bridge opened
Why we need the City Rail Link
God created transit
The Herald has an enlightened editorial on housing
What is PTOM?
Redoubt Road-Mill Road project causing angst
Is this a Barnes Dance?
Intersections from abstract to fact
Making ferries make sense
Magnetic South: Lessons from Antarctica
Fly-through of the planned Westgate town centre
If you get hit by a car, it’s probably your fault
Nelson and Hobson Streets: Problem, opportunity, and (incremental) solutions?
Opening of the Hobsonville and Beach Haven ferry terminals
Our greatest threat… is cul-de-sacs!
Shared spaces for busy intersections
Expanding the Real Time System
Wiri Depot Update
Looking closer at the CRL Designation
Hobsonville and Beach Haven ferry timetable
How revolutionary is a focus on intensification?
Water water everywhere but not a ferry to catch
Julie-Anne Genter tears apart govt’s transport policy
The cost of parking
How should we run trains post CRL?
Manukau Golf Club Development
North Shore Rail and the Harbour Crossing
Demolishing Demographia? An alternative explanation
Should impact on land value be part of the cost-benefit analysis?
Illegal Parking: Part 1
CRL Designation Notified
Waterview Connection: construction gathers pace
The new look NEX
What makes people give up using PT?
Demolishing Demographia? It’s cookie time.
NZTA confirms that another harbour crossing not needed soon
Does Auckland really have a land supply shortage?
Demolishing Demographia?
NZ Petrol Prices
Are the fares too damn high?
One for the trainspotters
Do we need to re-open the Tamaki train station?
Fun and games
The Alternatives considered in the CCFAS
Is New Zealand the “greatest nation on Earth”?
Proof NZTA hates public transport?
New Stats Pages
A letter from a reader
Urban Revolution
Auckland’s future growth
PARKing
Our EMU speeds
Economic patterns in urban development
Analysing station rankings
Rail Patronage vs Projections
The outgoing tide – Population loss from rural areas
2011 & 2012 Station Boarding Stats
Bus real-time system getting worse?
Intensification and the Rail Network
Video: AT COO on transport
Update on New Lynn
What future for driverless cars?
Parking Minimums: a fear of Ponsonby/Grey Lynn?
Young people (especially) are driving a lot less
Happy Birthday, you don’t look a day over 150
Minimum parking requirements: clearing up some confusion
Intersections and Corners, Exploring Auckland’s Urban Structure
Housing Affordability and the Accommodation Supplement
Auckland’s Economic Future
A (more detailed and equitable) ode to time-of-use transport pricing
PT frequency of usage
Photos of the progress on the rail network.
New study into PT in Auckland
Missing Road Links
Thoughts on the “holiday highway”
Using the SA fleet post electrification
Should we charge for parking at Long Bay?
Federated Farmers want Auckland to have better PT
Train Penalty fares increasing
Tales of the Wandering Jew
2012: A year in review
CCFAS and the Additional Harbour Crossing
Video: Cities in the Balance
Better PT needed for Boxing Day
Hopes for 2013
Who will run against Len Brown?
Don’t Travel North Tomorrow
Merry Christmas
Pressure Increases on Government Transport Policies
Sydney’s extended light-rail network
Cycling and Traffic Lights
Well that’s it for another year folks
An ode to demand-based transport pricing
Wellington City says “no” to Basin Reserve flyover
Should State Highways Be Funded The Same Way As Local Roads?
Fighting Traffic: The Dawn of the Motor Age in the American City
Myth Busting: Its those damn Aucklanders and their Motorways
Why is the Fanshawe Street bus lane being closed?
Road pricing and rail
Hobsonville and Beach Haven Ferry Details
Herald Transport Cartoons
The Great Inversion
EMU Video
Petrol taxes hiked by 9c a litre over three years
December AT Board Meeting
It’s a bus capacity problem
November 2012 Patronage Stats
Why AWHC is the stupidest transport project ever
Reducing rail fare evasion
Some things never change
Political response to the CCFAS Ctd.
The irony of government’s dismissal of CRL
Political response to the CCFAS
CCFAS to be released today
Buses stuck at Westgate
A new appreciation for Grafton Bridge
Almost the world’s most liveable city
From one-way to two
Trends in Car Fuel Efficiency
The 41% Busway
A perfect example of why we need alternatives
What drives Kiwis into buying rather than renting?
Are our residential streets too wide?
The elephant in the room: a familiar tale of traffic decline
The CBD is the future of employment
Stocking stuffer
New Look at the Earth at Night
Planning and Social Engineering
Broadway Junction Development
Transmission Gully PPP discussed in Parliament
Myth Busting: Aucklands Geography
Closing Sarawia St Level Crossing
Transport Spending: what’s the point?
Urban Transport Economics
Choice bro
Postcard from Brisbane
Southern Line Station Performance
Car vs Train Off Peak
What problems caused by high house prices are we really trying to address?
Myth busting: Roads Don’t Need Subsidies
Have your say on where and how Auckland sprawls
The ‘middle-rung’ suburbs – a great opportunity
Gerry Brownlee on the CRL
Belittling the City Centre
Urbanism dividend: return on rates
Not a single metre of new bus lane in two years?
300 Queen St: The Perfect Future Transit Station
“It’s the economy stupid #3″ – Is there an optimal city size?
Treasury’s interesting position on road pricing
Sydney Morning Herald predicts Auckland’s Future
Finding Lost Space
Did the NZTA just admit they are incompetent
Grafton Bridge – Revenue Gathering or Stupidity Tax
Housing Affordability – What matters more: The physical or financial?
What does the CCFAS document tell us?
Alten and Symonds Street – Destined for a smackdown?
Reaction to the leaking of the CCFAS
How my home fares in the 5 minute pint test
Young people really are driving less
CCFAS details leak out
“It’s the economy stupid” #2 – Economies of scale in NZ
Transport Capacity
Is the Outer Link fundamentally flawed?
QIMBYs needed to pass the 5 minute pint test
Dumb Ways to Die
Comment of the Week
Return of the walking city
New North Road bus changes (or why I hate St Lukes)
Pukekohe Electrification: the case for another station (or three)
Cities, Huh! What Are They Good For?
Form follows parking
Aucklanders want the CRL
Powering public transport in New Zealand
Rodney Hide redux
HOT Lanes
“It’s the economy stupid” – Taking New Zealand’s Cities Seriously
Investing in Public Transport is a Chicken or Egg debate
October 2012 Patronage Stats
Electrifying from Papakura to Pukekohe
Grids Gone Wild, Episode 1
Thoughts from “Road to Ruin”
Auckland’s Rail Signalling System
NZ Bus pay dispute resolved
A Day in the Life of the BIG little City
Changing the ground rules
More on the costs of parking
Thoughts from “How Cities Work: suburbs, sprawl and the roads not taken”
Another Australian PPP fails – will we learn from it?
Hank Dittmar (@HankDittmar) in Auckland
Paint the Auckland Harbour Bridge something other than boring old grey!
Slow down
The Steady Transformation of Travel to the CBD
Auckland’s red light district – is Central Government the problem?
Letting taxis in bus lanes
Tauranga Eastern Link – another white elephant motorway?
The Great Reset?
How Do You Solve a Problem Like Manukau?
What really happened with Snapper/HOP – Part 2
Summer holiday travel plans – blending cars, buses, and planes
What really happened with Snapper/HOP?
Auckland’s Place Premium
David vs Goliath
Should we build the Southern Link at Manukau?
Here Comes the Future, Auckland
Melding Cycling and Transit
Where and how will Auckland sprawl?
Turn roads into houses?
Topping up your AT HOP card online
What’s rotten about transport – the politics or the profession?
Time running out to submit on the RPTP
What’s Best for Northland?
Kapiti Expressway’s BCR is actually 0.2!
Short and awkward with a big mouth
Federal St upgrade announced
Government response to the productivity commission
Have your say on the Unitary Plan
Reviewing NZTA Projects
Are driverless cars the future?
AT HOP is finally live
Traffic’s declining in Sydney too – so why don’t we get it?
People buy stuff, not cars
And the winners are …..
Dominion Rd upgrade announced
The Other Great Transit Dividend
AT to become more transparent and customer focused
Will something constructive actually be done about housing affordability?
Confusion over the AT HOP card
Our driving trends aren’t unique
AT introduce some new monthly rail passes
NEWSFLASH: Do we need another Waitemata Harbour Crossing?
A hidden benefit to public transport
Empty San Francisco
Auckland is winning more awards
September 2012 Patronage Stats
What to do about generational differences?
Submit on the LTMA Amendment Bill
Don’t hop on the rail bus with your AT HOP
Details from the IPENZ presentation
The pitfalls of “multi-modal projects”
Guest Post: The Grafton Cycleway – A New City Gateway
Progress on the City Centre Future Access Study
How far the rail timetable has come
IPENZ talk on the new PT Network tonight
Why is our Rail Patronage Stalling
Fairer fare zones
In Praise of City Trees
Win a HOP card loaded with $50
Keeping the option of a regional fuel tax
The History of Albert-Eden
Zero Parking Developments
It’s the parking (minimums) stupid!
Using the new AT HOP card
P2W timesavings just don’t stack up
One less obnoxious pedestrian crossing
Fair Fares For Families
NZ Bus and Union issues drag on
Improving our Farebox Recovery
The “North Harbour Strategic Study”
The NZTA steps up its game with pedestrian bridges
Auckland’s population to hit 2 million by 2031
Guest Post: Improving housing affordability
Does Brian Rudman need some new glasses?
What should we call our EMUs
Northwest Busway Plans
Thinking about fares – Some perspectives on zones, products, and concessions
Kiwirail Electrification Update
An RPTP Storm in a Tea Cup
Showing the benefits of the new PT network
Thinking about fare zones
October Rail Timetable Changes
A welcome clampdown on ‘parking perks’
The Public Transport Revolution begins
Gordon Price (@pricetags) in Auckland
The madness of parking minimums
Wellington St onramp just about ready
Northwest Busway update
‘The Economist’ on Peak Car
NZTA Gives Auckland Some Roads
Give us our Waterfront
How long will my bus trip take?
Is this Auckland’s worst footpath?
What makes open spaces work
Showing Changes in Property Values
Telecom to “hook into” the AT HOP card
Thinking about rail to the Airport
Policy of appeasement: How to engage with transport engineers
Pedestrian Improvements: traffic signals
A visit to Penrose
Onehunga is now ready for Electric Trains
Sideswipe Covers Travel Time Savings
Taking a closer look at East Coast Rd
And the transport prizes go to … Queensland Rail and Symonds Street
Before they were Shared Spaces
What the heck Phoebe?
The New Panmure Station
A visit to Panmure
Sydney’s Rail Strategy
Lonely Planet gives Auckland’s PT the thumbs down
AMP NZ sees the benefit of the CRL
A Visit to New Lynn
Bus strike cancelled
PARK(ing) Day
Monday’s bus strike – PT alternatives
Mapping out Cities
LTMA Bill debated in parliament
AT Confirms City Centre Parking Changes
September AT Board Reports
The New Bus Network: a step change for Auckland
Bus Strikes back on
Public Transport… or Passenger Transit?
Public transport is cool
September Update on the EMUs
More “tin pot dictator” bus punctuality stats
Streets: A Platform for Creating Value
August Patronage Stats
Guest Post: Taking the plunge – A newbie cyclist in Auckland speaks out
More Puhoi-Wellsford discussion in parliament
The times they are a-changin’ – Is our “love affair” with cars over?
Well that answers the “eastern link” question
Shifting the problem, not solving it
A Further Look at O’Connell St: High St Hinterland
No Bus Strikes
Your Chance to Look at the EMU Mockup
Noisy bus advertisements – like torture!
News Flash: Old Stuff Costs a Lot to Run
Would You Like Some Integrated Fares To Go With That New Bus Network
Buses sign up with Thales
Turning down the driving tap
O’Connell St upgrade, another cop out?
Density and Public Transport
Train Ticketing changes tomorrow
Council chickening out on parking reform?
Transport – It’s the Economy, Stupid
A tale of two busways
Learning from Munich
Sometimes I am baffled by AT’s stupidity
AMETI busway up for the chop?
Design for People: Link and Place
Cycling for Google Maps in Auckland
Thoughts on “Band-Aid” solutions
The Paris Metro in Auckland
Measuring ‘transport benefit’ better
Can these RoNS Make a Right?
Looking at how Auckland will develop
From a fly on the wall, deep inside the NZTA
Is the pressure mounting on government over the RoNS?
Auckland’s PT Trends
How the regions fare from the NLTP, the Ws have it
Rudman rightly slams the NLTP
I’m back, did I miss much?
Brittle Thinking
Warkworth-Wellsford: in or out?
Is Brownlee stretching the truth? Fuel prices, vehicle demands, and the RoNS
Guest Post: Wellington Public Transport Fare Review – Part 2
NZTA Fudging the Figures on the NLTP?
Vancouver facing some tough decisions
The City Centre Master Plan – Part 1
Rolling out the AT HOP card
Oil Strike!
Long term regional rail in NZ
Guest Post: A Different Look at Supply
The Snapper/HOP debacle finally resolved?
Smart Transport for New Zealand
Fried Snapper
Guest Post: Downtown Separated Bike Facilities: Vancouver
More Matangi trains for Wellington
Goodbye pork pie? The demise of major industries and wider implications for New Zealand’s transport sector
Talk Trains With Veolia
Guest Post: Emerging – Bike Boxes
And the transport prize goes to …
Analysing Vancouver’s bus network
Hobsonville and Beach Haven ferry service coming
Snapper/HOP fiasco continues
Guest Post: Is it time to dust off Wellington’s 2004 Gehl Report?
CRL Video
Snapper Off the Menu?
Enrique Peñalosa
“The Road Ahead” – Cross-party discussion on NZ’s transport future
An “Insight” into the RoNS package
Brownlee is a Roads Scholar …
Things I have learned about Vancouver
NZTA spends $8m on RoNS promotion
First look at the “proper” HOP card?
July 2012 Patronage Stats
New T3 lane proposed for Onewa Road
NZTA borrowing discussed further
Gerrymandering the Central City
Should NZTA be allowed to borrow for the RoNS?
Walking the talk – Analysing pedestrian mode share in Auckland
Possible October rail timetable changes
ATB film night fast approaching
Wellington Street onramp to reopen
Guest Post: RoNS questioned again
Guest Post: The new Mt Albert station
Guest Post: Wellington Public Transport Fare System Review
Why my favourite colour is orange … but I have mixed emotions about Albany
Off to Vancouver
The difference that street width makes
How should Auckland sprawl?
Why I love the Netherlands
The on-street parking dilemma
Ticket gates appearing at Britomart
“Aucklanders are slaves to their cars”
Severance City
Why the pedestrian angst?
The future of fuel taxes
And the transport prizes go to …
“Swap your HOP” not far away?
Reminder: Film Event
The Wellington Street fiasco continues
A good motorway project?
Milford Plan Change – what’s the problem?
The Holiday Highway’s health and education benefits?
Disconnection by Design: The Christchurch Plan
Council investigation into fuel tax
Improving buses in Mangere
What to do with the Old Mangere Bridge?
The 2008 Puhoi-Wellsford Study
Auckland’s hindsight heroes: Christine Fletcher
A more detailed view of the CRL alignment
Fare Collection needs to improve
The government’s bizarre response to the Auckland Plan
What I love about Auckland (Transport Blog)
We Need Your Help
Strong support for motorway tolls?
Brownlee really does hate the CRL
Tamaki Redevelopment
CRL Subsurface Landowner Presentation
What’s Auckland’s future?
Visualising the Amount of Traffic on the Motorway Network
The urban limits debate rages on
Density done well
What comes first, the CRL or another Harbour Crossing
Upgraded Otara bus Interchange
What’s happening to rail patronage?
Confessions of a transport hitman – Private super-profits or public sector waste?
June 2012 Patronage report
Guest Post: Bicycles the Incredible Urban Leverage Engine
NZTA use of consultants questioned
An Unnecessary Battle
How to cover Auckland’s (supposed) transport funding gap?
Priority of Packed Trains vs Cars at Level Crossings
The Tide is Turning on the RoNS
How to improve housing affordability?
Fare Gates Appear
Is the shopping mall dying?
Tiverton-Wolverton upgrade about to start
Other RoNS to cut back?
AT improving their marketing of the CRL
Is the NZTA starting to scale back the RoNS?
Learning from Los Angeles
Transport Issues Across the Country
Being Rational About Transport Spending
NZ’s 6th most popular blog
Passenger rail in New Zealand: Blending beauty and controversy
The perils of ignoring induced demand
Get your Feedback in on the Future of the Wellington St on-ramp
So what’s with this “Inner West Interchange”?
Welcome to Auckland, Transport Blog
Server Migration In Progress
Why the AA and Steven Selwood are wrong
EMU Mock up video
The Peak Oil debate rears its head
An update on the Unitary Plan
Assessing alternatives to the CRL
More info on the CRL announcement
CRL route confirmed
Changes to the Waterview Interchanges & Cycling Route Moves Closer
We don’t want a repeat of 2009 all over again
Guest Post: Auckland Streetcar Suburbs, More Please
Council wakes up to flat-lining traffic growth
Glen Eden Park and Ride
Guest Post: Love for Our Imperfect Streetcar City
Vancouver CBD traffic: back to 1960s levels
Auditor General comments on CRL
AT seeks feedback on proposed parking changes
Guest Post: Auckland Cityfix – Give Way Stripes
Integrated Ticketing in Parliament
Auckland supports the CRL and the CRL supports Growth
Big changes in store for KiwiRail
Fundraising Film Night
How would you spend an extra $77k
In come the Lawyers
Hopping to a train station near you
What’s Wrong With This Picture?
London Underground Videos
Why Cameron Brewer is wrong
Auckland’s New Trains: A Missed Opportunity?
What Next
New Chair for Auckland Transport
HOP implementation slipping again?
AT improves access to Sunnynook Busway station
Why do we keep building such auto dependent towns?
An Auckland Metro: Possibilities, Complications, Conclusions
May 2012 Patronage Report
Our “Tin Pot Dictator” bus reliability stats
Commuter rail or rapid transit?
EMU Mock up officially launched
Guest Post – Driverless Light-Metro: The Dominion Line
Why is our rail punctuality so hopeless?
Improving Greenlane Station
Does Auckland Transport now have a Logo?
Who Cares What The Trains Look Like?
AT June Board Meeting
Excellent in Parts: The NW Cycleway Finally Arrives
Rail Real Time System is Live
Density and traffic congestion
A New Arrival on Queens Wharf
Petrol tax to increase
Freight and Driverless Rapid Transit
The case for the Eastern Link
More information about the RoNS
The future role for driverless light-metro
Guest Post: Save The Capital Connection
What needs fixing?
Ploughing snow Kiwirail style
The Case against the Eastern Link
CBD Parking scheme joins the 21st century
Why is Britomart broken and not being fixed?
Test your bus lane knowledge
What to do about Grafton post CRL
Paying a premium for walkability
Northern Busway – Post Implementation Review
Getting over our obsession with congestion – a necessary paradigm shift
The Upcoming NLTP: trying and failing to put lipstick on a pig
PT Funding Announcement Full of Spin
$59 million error in Wellington Transport Plan?
Further development at Wynyard
How many stations for the CRL?
NW Cycleway to be extended
How Effective Transport Planning Has Transformed London – Videos
Futurissimo! The New City Street
Is it time to kill off MAXX?
Auckland Plan Launched
Analysing Auckland’s car dependency
NZTA’s updates on Integrated Ticketing
Why Now Westfield?
A City Rail Link Page
Junkspace: Rem, Lee, and Me
Improvements to Gt North Rd in New Lynn are starting
Reducing household transport spending
The CRL and the North Shore
WRR up to $4b and counting
Buses: cheaper replacement for the CRL or just an easy cop out?
Electrifying to Pukekohe
April Patronage Report
RoNS and Treasury Guidelines
The Council Agrees to the LTP
The Original Business Case for the Busway
D-Day for the City Rail Link
Financing the EMUs – Is the Government Clipping the Ticket?
Playing Politics with the CRL
Fixing Newmarket’s Station Square
What value life?
Vancouver Skytrain – ride the system
Website Maintenance
Vancouver’s Skytrain – the perfect PT?
Passionate about transport? Love cities? Want a job?
The Wellington St onramp saga
Fort St Shared Space a Success
Local roads getting screwed over
RLTP Submission, A Bouquet and a Brickbat
Time to make the Wynyard tram useful
EMU Interior Video
What does the City Rail Link actually cost?
Contract for EMU depot signed
People travelling less in the UK too
North Shore Rail for $2.5b?
Tokyo timelapse video
Why the overhead CRL won’t work, it’s about the catchment
What to do about Britomart with Regional Trains
Gerry gets involved in Integrated Ticketing
An overhead City Rail Link?
US Traffic Volumes – something weird is happening
Further analysing Vancouver’s PT success
Govt: We don’t care as long as the roads are built
Improving the Blog
Venice in a day
Removing signs to make streets safer
What to do about Britomart
Snapper ruining integrated ticketing – surprise, surprise
Overlander renamed Northern Explorer
Comparing Big Transport Projects
How much say should Local Boards have?
Why Compare with Vancouver?
Surprise surprise, MoT policy advice quality criticised
Analysing Auckland’s VKT
Visualising the Impact of the CRL
Is reducing speed limits to save lives “nuts”?
The Morning Peak Quiz
San Francisco: Reclaiming Streets With Innovative Solutions
How Effective Transport Planning Has Transformed London
The PT world from the eyes of Infratil
Copying Metrotown, Vancouver
Puhoi to Warkworth Video
Our unbalanced transport spending
HOP on your phone
March rail drop: temporary blip or not?
How to Explain our Rail Capacity Constraints
New cycle superhighways for Auckland?
NZTA Confirms Puhoi to Wellsford Route
Oops!
What to do about Takapuna?
Wellington Power Failure Kills Auckland Trains
CBD Growth: What Counts?
Why build the CRL? It’s about capacity
Our Next Transport Minister?
Council needs to sell CRL’s benefits
Allowing change, not forcing it
PT Letdown for ANZAC day
The case for closing Waitakere Station
Developing the Rail and Busway Network
How to Improve the Marketing of the CRL
Brownlee loses the plot
‘The Cross’ Future Pattern for Auckland Rail?
695 Signal or Track Faults in One Year
New Waterview Video
Future Rail Network: conceptual service patterns
March not so Mad in 2012
Our long-term rail future
AT Addressing Rail and Bus Performance
A Northern Exit for Newmarket Station?
Outer Link – further refinements necessary
History never repeats …. Except for Transport in Auckland
Fares to rise on April 29
AMETI Update – including Busway Video
Boom! or ‘Flight to the Centre’?
The CMJ: Birth of a Dream
Ellerslie Station Upgrade – April Update
Manukau Station Open Day Photos
Manukau Station opens tomorrow
How do you get to work?
Western vs Southern line Patronage
How Aotea Station will put a Big New Beat into the Heart of Auckland
Motorway tolling is a stupid idea
Ian Mackinnon Drive: the costs of excessive car priority
Burning down the CRL
Spineless AT gives up on Remuera Rd bus lanes
Why are we driving less?
Does the market really still want sprawl?
Google Traffic for NZ
The “missing middle density” housing
Does this sound familiar?
The Poor Quality of our State Highway Spending
Traffic Volumes in Parliament – part 2
The Redesigned Bus Network
Karangahape Road Station
Traffic Volumes in Parliament
EMU Update – with new pictures
Rethinking the automobile – video
PTOM – a step in the right or wrong direction?
Finding Auckland’s pulse
Aotea Station
14 year-old newsflash: Kiwi economy waves good-bye to state highways
Transport discussion 1 and 2 years ago
NZTA to investigate Dominion Road motorway
Building our way to affordability?
Manukau Timetable is out
Fixing Congestion: Carrot or Stick?
Car vs Train
7 year-old newsflash: Kiwis driving less and loving it; MoT/NZTA curse freedom of choice
Final draft of the Auckland Plan
Spot the Change
And the transport prize goes to …
Fairer and Smarter Fares
Land Hungry Cars
Measuring PT Performance Better
The laughable bus reliability statistics
Guest Post: Los Angeles – but not as we know it
Guest Post: Feeder buses in Toronto
Multi-What?
LTP and RLTP submission
Manukau Train Station gets a date (and images)
Double-deckers are coming!
Feb 2012 Patronage Report
PT Patronage up by a third in 4 years
Guest Post: how can we make feeder buses work?
A (rare) bouquet for NZTA
Supermarket Boycott – Part II
March AT Board Report
The Future of Tamaki Dr
Congestion: Cause or Effect?
Get your Submissions in
Breaking down the Patronage Targets Futher
Guest Post: Looking at PRT – Part 2
Vic Park Tunnel on Campbell Live
Auckland Plan gets some patronage targets
Guest Post: Looking at PRT – Part 1
The curious case of the Victoria Park Tunnel
Securing the Rail Network
Auckland Plan’s new Development Strategy
I’m calling for a supermarket boycott!
Auckland Rail Patronage closes in on Wellington
No Integrated Fares with Hop
Walking the Tightrope
Council brings forward some funding for the CRL
Talking Transport in Parliament
Two bits of motorway news
Finally some info on a NW Busway
High Density & High Rise: not necessarily the same thing
Wider view of affordability needed
The Hidden PT Projects in the LTP
Making a harbour tunnel “stack up”
AT/Veolia missing out on Thousands
Long Term Plan on Transport
Could we pick a worse time for This?
AT still blaming pedestrians for getting run over
How Can The Council Facilitate Transformation?
Regional Land Transport Programme out for consultation
Flat Bush’s town centre advances (but in the wrong place?)
AT Prepares for March Madness
Council’s Numbers Don’t Add Up
What does ‘Transformational’ actually mean?
Council chooses sprawl
AMETI Starts
Solid January patronage stats
AT Finally starts Marketing the CRL
Changes to Transport in the Auckland Plan
Snapper snaps Integrated Ticketing once again
Analysing the “Funding Gap”
Playing in the Streets – Photos
Rudman points out Auckland Plan’s hypocrisy
December Patronage Statistics
The New Intensity
Transport Funding Options – My preferences
Event Reminder – Playing in the Streets
Auckland Transport Feb Board Meeting
An Invitation/Challenge to Gerry Brownlee
Paying for Auckland’s infrastructure
Ellerslie Station Upgrade – Feb Update
The Mythical Projects of Auckland Transport
What does density look like?
Waterview Connection update – Feb 2012
My new blog
Twyford v Brownlee – round 1
Why aren’t we building more dwellings?
It’s about choice, not congestion
Auckland Plan Feedback on Transport
Are we ready for the “March madness”?
Briefing to the Transport Minister – Part 2
Briefing to the Transport Minister – Part 1
Rail shuttle alternative to port expansion?
Real Debate in the Herald, at last.
Northern Gateway Toll Set to Rise
We now have an official Twitter account
CRL Update
Intensification and Heritage
Last Post
Bike Racks on Waiheke Buses
NZTA wants slice of developer contributions
Auckland Density Illustrated I: The Inner City
Light metro for the North Shore: a superior alternative to a harbour motorway tunnel?
Transit Station 26 Jan 2012
The complexity of density
Guest Post: The Christchurch Bus Exchange
How do we change attitudes to parking?
The intensification, sprawl and housing affordability debate rages on
NZTA warns of Carmageddon …. again
Blog Statistics
Peaking
Guest Post: Review – Human Transit
The Westgate Pedestrian and Cycle Bridge
Reducing some of the Environmental Impact of Motorways
Silverdale Park & Ride
A Southern Link?
Guest Post: Integrated ticketing – part 2
Travel to the BDO
Parnell Track Work Completed
Why does it have to be so Hard?
How parking shapes urban form
Future Auckland Density: ‘Say no to bad design’
“Swap your HOP” confirmed
Shifting transport beyond partisan debates
Park-and-ride, boon or boondoggle?
November patronage statistics
Albany Park & Ride to be Expanded
020 Changes finalised
The future of transport blogging
Tweaking Shared Spaces
Avoid SH16 this Weekend
Edge City: not the future after all?
Making Gt North Rd Greater
Another Shared Street for New Lynn
Transit Station
Shared spaces: traffic volumes matter
“Locking in” Vic Park Tunnel’s benefits
What to do about parking?
Victoria Park viaduct – southbound changes from Monday
Managing seasonal traffic – Cathedral Cove as a Case Study
The NZ Police – Enabling crime through poor urban design
March of the Wires
Embracing the transfer
Solving the “Warkworth Problem”

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