The Campaign for Better Transport (CBT) and Public Transport Users Association (PTUA)feel it is time for government bodies to take the personal safety of public transportpassengers and staff seriously and investigate introducing a specialist Transport Police forcein New Zealand that would have the powers and privileges of constables, but on […]
Buses
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The New Zealand Herald reports: Householders face being transported to and from their homes in a shuttle vehicle as contractors widen North Shore’s busy Onewa Rd during a nine-month project starting today. Why not catch a bus?
Former North Shore Mayor and bus ways campaigner George Wood writes for the North Shore Times today.
Brian Rudman writes in today’s New Zealand Herald: The Government’s antipathy to embracing new Auckland public transport projects has made the debate over a rail link to Auckland International Airport rather academic. Which makes it rather surprising that the airport company should be so sensitive about a recent Metro article’s […]
Lincoln Tan reports in the Herald on recent Auckland public transport patronage figures. Use of public transport in Auckland has hit a 25-year high, with commuters reporting increased satisfaction with the service on offer. The Auckland Regional Transport Authority’s annual passenger figures showed 58.6 million trips were made in the […]
There’s a fantastically interesting post over at Human Transit on comparing the benefits of buses and streetcars (trams), and how it is easy to get blinded by the romance of streetcars rather than looking at the transit problem we are trying to solve and then going about the best way […]