Halifax Transit released their latest report on the Moving Forward Plan. It’s More than Buses advice to Council is simple: this report is inadequate, does not solve dramatic problems in the network and should be rejected. The report only recommends one change out of 23 potential changes, and that is simply renumbering a route. The Plan needs much, much more work. We recommend that Council halts the […]

It’s More than Buses was thrilled to host Darren Davis at the end of September. Darren is the principal public transit planner in Auckland, New Zealand. Under his direction, Auckland has completely redrawn their bus network. Early results are promising, with ridership up over 30% in some parts of the network. This type of radical re-design is both rare and incredibly inspiring. Auckland’s audacious transit plans […]

It’s More than Buses has been thrilled to host Darren Davis over the last three days. Darren is the principal public transit planner in Auckland, New Zealand. Under his direction, Auckland has completely redrawn their bus network. Early results are promising, with ridership up over 30% in some parts of the network. This type of radical re-design is both rare and incredibly inspiring. Auckland’s audacious […]

It’s More than Buses is thrilled to share a great piece in the Halifax Examiner, by Auckland’s Darren Davis. We asked Darren to provide us with some lessons from Auckland, New Zealand, where he leads the public transit network team at Auckland Transport. Auckland has many of the same geographic issues as Halifax, and like Halifax is replacing its confusing, outdated network. Thank you so much […]

Last week, Halifax Transit released it’s year end report for this fiscal year. Most of the results for ridership are unremarkable, except that the ferry ridership is up almost 30% year over year. This is likely due to the hassle of the Big Lift, and the extra departures that were added to compensate. Frequency is attractive and convenient, and helps increase ridership. Transit ridership has been […]

Before the weekend, Halifax Transit’s acting director Dave Reage made some unfortunate remarks about transit maps to the Coast‘s Jacob Boon: 
“Even now, I use Google Transit most often if I want to figure out where I’m going,” says Dave Reage. The acting director of Halifax Transit calls paper maps somewhat of a dinosaur. “The digital tools are far more powerful than a map would […]

So, how do we evaluate a big, complicated transit network? One big question: can lots of people easily take transit to key destinations? Unfortunately, it’s hard to tell how many people have convenient transit options from a 190 page report. Halifax’s Transit’s new plan doesn’t answer the key question: where can people easily travel to using transit? We ask that Halifax Transit provide information about […]