I’m on Whangaparaoa Peninsula. Approx 90 minutes to the CBD on buses (or 50 minutes on the ferry but they have decimated that - only 2 sailings each weekday morning and 2 return in the evening)
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But...if you live in Rodney you can't really expect everyone else to subsidize your far-away travel. I mean, no congestion charges proposed for getting to *your* CBD.
😄 Barry, it's not "my" CBD. I never said I was against congestion charges (I actually support them if done right). You seem to have made assumptions ...
What I did point out was the impracticality of the bus network from here (which is still part of Auckland)
If we use Singapore’s ERP as an example, based on a quick search, leaving at 6:30 would result in no road pricing charge. Which means, leaving early, as you do, is exactly how road pricing should work.
I don’t really have an issue with the principle of congestion charges. It’s more that public transport is shyte from here so many have no choice but to drive. I am lucky as I can stagger my travel and I don’t have to do it every day.
End of Whangaparaoa is relatively low density. Good transit requires good ridership. More potential riders = higher service. Hence NX services are high frequency. Ferries, unfortunately, are really expensive to run and, unless something like Devo > City, cost per passenger is really high.
Especially if they kill the service by cancelling more than 50% of scheduled sailings. The GH ferry was once growing well but patronage has been impacted by huge unreliability.
TBH I have access to a car park in town so driving is much more convenient if I need to go to the city - especially as I have meetings at odd times with Aus and Singapore so often end up doing meetings in the car (which doesn’t work on a bus)
It's an old design, once we needed to be near other offices to send a runner with documents, then we got faxes and email, but carried on with the CBD idea because CEO's lack imagination
Yep. Should also look at rebuilding the ferry services. So much nicer than buses (coffee in the morning, wine in the evening and occasionally see dolphins etc.) I’m keeping an eye on electric ferry developments
Fullers in disarray atm. Cancelling ferries left and right. Would be great to get some competition in that area. Agree it's an amazing way to travel (though perhaps not with weather like today)
TBH I am lucky. Work from home 3 or 4 days p/week. It is also a challenge getting to the airport but that's a once or twice a month problem and would be an issue from most of Auckland. (If commuting was easier I would be in the office more.)
The city rail link was *always* step one, meant to get more value from existing rail infrastructure and enable more. Building our fully integrated transport system is not meant to end there!
I know it just feels like a weird place to start. And the current station choices are in odd places. Like it's baffling to me that there's no university station. I can't imagine getting any use out of the loop. It makes much more sense to me to start with where there's a gap in transport needs.
The crl isn't for 'itself' it's for the rest of the network, so trains can go *through* britomart instead of backing in and out.
Brito dead-end is a huge bottleneck in terms of other trains cant use that track for big chunks of time.
So you can't have rapid everywhere<->everywhere flow etc.
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What I did point out was the impracticality of the bus network from here (which is still part of Auckland)
Brito dead-end is a huge bottleneck in terms of other trains cant use that track for big chunks of time.
So you can't have rapid everywhere<->everywhere flow etc.