Nicolas Reid

Urbanism, transit, cats.

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Take a look inside: https://t.co/l9u4t3Qs1v

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Interested in public transport that actually works, even in traffic-heavy suburban cities?

My new book lays out the ins and outs of transit planning, with theory and practice grounded in experience on what delivers.

Now available in print and eBook: https://t.co/t3v4iaqbnA

[Nicolas Reid @Nicolas_Reid]

Interested in public transport that actually works, even in traffic-heavy suburban cities?

My new book lays out the ins and outs of transit planning, with theory and practice grounded in experience on what delivers.

Now available in print and eBook: https://t.co/t3v4iaqbnA

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@StuartBDonovan @Pen_ultimate__ @totaraforest The map shows Hibiscus Coast to Pukekohe, so it's even a little bit more than that.

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@Mark833 @LinkedIn Newton? You mean the place that was basically destroyed to build the motorway junction, the one I’m suggesting gets rebuilt?

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Check out my latest article: Should Auckland demolish Spaghetti Junction?

I make a not-entirely-serious case for ripping out Spaghetti Junction in Auckland, replacing it with a motorway tunnel, and redeveloping above it instead
https://t.co/mqkmVsmEmg via @LinkedIn

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@RussellClarkNZ @LinkedIn Yes, but this is mostly sedimentary rock with a short section under (not through) the Mt Eden basalt flow.

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@Tiare_MP @LinkedIn No, the port would still have access to the motorways via Grafton gully and the ring road.

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@urbanistfromwhk Real patriots sit in the freedom queue, and laugh at the wokeists passing by.

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Check out my latest article: Does the New Zealand rail network actually serve New Zealanders?

I looked into data on how many kiwis might be able to travel by train… if we ran more than a handful of them each week.

https://t.co/dBPZUk5LTY
via @LinkedIn

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TIL that Atlanta, Georgia was founded as a rail terminus and named after a railway!

[Hayden @the_transit_guy]

This is the main train station for a metro with a smaller population than Atlanta’s, btw.

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@EsqHardy @the_transit_guy …and Toronto to Miami

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@EsqHardy @the_transit_guy If you laid Berlin’s direct rail connections over Atlanta the routes would stretch from Houston to New York.

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@RussHignett @KeebaFugu @the_transit_guy All of Spandau and Charlottenburg are within 20 mins of Olympiastadion, so plenty of bar and pub options.

And people do ‘tailgate’ in the grounds around the stadium, just without the tailgates.

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@spidertastica @kentslundberg If you can't understand that then look to Canberra, Newcastle or Gold Coast, all much smaller than Auckland and all built new surface light rail lines for the similar costs of $150m to $250m per kilometre.
They also have traffic management

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@spidertastica @kentslundberg Yes because tunneling and underground stations are extremely expensive, which is why a surface line was a much cheaper option.

Take Sydney LRT for example: 12km track, 19 stations, depot and 60 trains for $3.1b.

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@spidertastica @kentslundberg $6b for the surface line. Yes ratepayers and taxpayers, the same people that pay for all transport.

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@spidertastica @kentslundberg That’s his point. They took away the reasonable surface light rail plan and turned it into an infeasibly expensive $29b metro plan.

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@kentslundberg Narrower too

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@urbanistfromwhk You know at the Vasa museum they have a gallery of Lego models of other terrible shipwrecks and the Rena is one of them.

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I took a ride on a giant gondola in Taipei, and wrote some thoughts on the experience of using cableways for public transit.
Check out my latest article: Gondolas for mass transit? https://t.co/e884Ef7pbp via @LinkedIn