BUS LANE * New Zealand - Cars to get trial run in
Transport Committee decided yesterday to use its least populated bus lane, along 1.8km of Tamaki Drive, for a trial during which any vehicle with at least two occupants will be able to share the lane
Auckland,NZ -The New Zealand Herald, by Mathew Dearnaley -May 8, 2009: -- Auckland City intends dipping into public transport budgets to pay for a trial allowing private cars or even logging trucks into a waterfront bus lane... A 4-3 vote followed fierce political debate, and advice from officers that only eight buses an hour ran along the city-bound lane, from Kelly Tarlton's Underwater World to Ngapipi Rd... Staff said in a report that the lane was uninterrupted by side streets, making it suitable for a trial to gauge any effect on bus travel times... Passenger transport manager, Stuart Knarston, said the number of vehicles carrying more than one person was fairly low in Auckland, so the trial was unlikely to cause much inconvenience to bus passengers... But a decision to pay for the $355,000 trial from unallocated parts of council public transport and walking and cycling budgets drew strong reactions from minority City Vision councillors already upset at what they deemed an attack on the city's 32km network of bus lanes... "It adds insult to injury," said Graeme Easte... (Picture from media.nzherald.co.nz: Buses)Labels: buses lanes
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