AT Score Their Goals

in Auckland Bus Featured Top Debate Trains by Jon C — October 24, 2011 at 2:20 pm | 7 comments

Auckland Transport have a lot to be pleased about in tallying up, not just last night’s public transport success but, opening night exempted, the way it went throughout the whole tournament. Well done!

Lots of people were involved including train, bus companies, officials and lots of friendly volunteers. I hope they now can get a cup of tea and a lie down pleased with the job they did.

And the patronage stats overall are staggering with rail use for September 32% higher than September 2010 at 1.2m passengers with a 52% increase on the Western Line alone and for the first 2 weeks of October (1-14) rail patronage up 18%.

Let’s hope that continues.

For last night’s RWC final,  46% of those attending used public transport  - there were 16,200 using trains  and 11,980 using special event buses, a total of 28,180.

9405 people used coaches, approx. 1500 used taxis.

41,000 walked the Fan Trail to Eden Park- some just for the fun of it.

In fact about 4000 people not attending the match caught the train from Kingsland back to Britomart after walking the Fan Trail.

The rail crowds were cleared in 60 minutes, Eden Park bus hub cleared in 60 minutes and CBD special event buses cleared in 75 minutes.

All up during the RWC, Auckland Transport says public transport moved a total of about 600,000 people to and from the 15 matches during the tournament.

Five or so years ago only around 5% of people used public transport to get to major events.

As per AT’s target, around 75% are now using options other than private car to get to matches.

And AT says other achievements were:

• Special event buses and trains left to/from the park about every 7-9 minutes.
• After opening night extra buses (and drivers) were brought in from as far away as Wellington to provide contingency.
• Road closures in the CBD throughout the tournament were effective and well managed and ensured the smooth operation of fan zones.
• And during the six weeks of the Tournament we met one of our key aims of making it “business as usual”- by keeping Auckland moving on PT, roads, to and from school, work, play etc

Here are other important stats on patronage during this period:

• September 2011 patronage across all PT (including special event RWC services)  was 6,634,342, an increase of 1,045,140 over September 2010 or +19%.
• Rail for September was 32% higher than September 2010 at 1.2m passengers with a 52% increase on the Western Line alone.
• For the first 2 weeks of October (1-14) rail patronage is up 18%.
• Ferry for September was 30% higher than September 2010.
• More on patronage stats

And those general Auckland RWC stats again:

• Almost 750,000 fans attended RWC 2011 matches in the city (Eden Park and North Harbour Stadium)
• 121,141 people walked the Fan Trail to Eden Park (More than triple the 33,000 originally projected)
• More than 550,000 people travelled to and from matches by public transport
• Almost 20,000 turned out to welcome teams at the airport, on marae and in Aotea Square
• 13,600 people watched their teams at public training sessions
• Approximately 150,000 children from 400 primary and intermediate schools participated in Auckland’s schools programme
• Approximately 2000 volunteers delivered more than 150,000 volunteer work hours
• 200,000 celebrated across the waterfront and CBD on Opening Night
• More than 1 million people visited Queens Wharf
• Regional Fanzones (Albany, Mangere and Henderson) hosted a total of 96,480 during the knock out stages of the Tournament.

 

 

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