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Why Wellington Trains Perform Better Than Ours
One of the puzzling questions for Auckland rail commuters is why there is - perceived at least - to be so many delays and breakdowns and monthly performance...
Western Line Performance Down Again
Eastern and Southern Line commuters had a better run last month - but Western Line commuters had the same bad experience as the previous month - the...
Train Faults Up 25%
Bring on the new trains. Train faults are plaguing the Auckland network. Overall rail performance figures in May are the best since last August but the bad news...
Is Our PT Reliable Enough?
Reliability of our public transport is still not good enough. AKT last week compared Auckland’s April rail performance to Wellington’s - a city...
Auck vs Wellington Train Performance
In April, 90% of Wellington trains were on time to within 5 minutes in April. 84% of trains were on time to within 3 minutes. Of the 7,115 Auckland train services...
Only 80% Trains Arrive On Time
Only 80% of Auckland’s trains arrived on time (within 5 minutes) last month. In Wellington 89% of trains were on time to within 5 minutes in March. Of the...
Woeful Punctuality
Only 69% of Auckland’s train services were on time in January and Veolia Transport acknowledges that there has been “a reduction in performance in recent...
Train Performance Disappoints
Train performance continues to be a little shaky. In December the average overall punctuality on the lines was 74.6% - only Onehunga being the standout -...
Brit Train Gets Diverted To Newmarket
An operational error meant a train travelling to Britomart was incorrectly diverted towards Newmarket resulting in 85 delayed services including 10 cancellations...
A Pretty Picture
For readers like Steven who like drawing pretty graphs, here’s the visual evidence of how well PT is doing as reported in the September stats. Performance...
Onehunga Trains Best Behaved
The latest Auckland train performance stats show that the new Onehunga train services are the best performing despite the initial speed restrictions. The newly introduced...
Onehunga On Time
Onehunga has got off to a great start in terms of services being on time. It achieved the best punctuality record of all lines in September - although it must...
Brown Excited By Rail Figures
Auckland’s new mayor Len Brown is excited about the latest figures showing use of public transport in Auckland continuing to climb have been welcomed by Mayor...
How’s the New Timetable?
I’m getting lots of emails from train commuters complaining about a return to the bad old days (not so old) of being held up going into the Britomart tunnel...
How The Trains Performed In June
You’ve been asking for full details of the Veolia boast of how well they are doing each month. So here is their full performance report for June including...
KiwiRail Urgently Needs Lessons In PR
We may think we get hard done by some days but thank goodness we aren’t suffering the unfriendly non-customer-focused KiwiRail treatment like Wellington commuters. Listen...
