Say “No” to bigger trucks
For this post I’m just going to refer to a media release by the Campaign for Better Transport on the NZTA’s proposal to allow bigger and heavier trucks on our roads – a sure sign that once again our Minister of Transport should really adopt the title of “Minister for Trucking” as he’s really little else.…
2 Comments Integrated ticketing news this week?
There’s a very interesting article on the Stuff website today which suggests that we might hear news on the integrated ticketing project this week. It seems like NZTA and the ARC have come to an agreement on the funding structure for this critical project that will replace the money that Auckland’s regional fuel tax was to provide.…
Housing affordability and inter-generational inequity
This post is a bit different to a lot of what I have posted on in the past few months on this blog. It isn’t a bunch of photos from a trip around Auckland showing some latest public transport development, it isn’t an analysis of some transport policy document, or another rant against Steven Joyce.…
New Lynn trench – photos
Well I finally did get around to taking some photos of the progress being made on the New Lynn rail trench.
This photo looks eastwards towards the Clark Street roundabout and where the future New Lynn train station will be. This photo looks west from roughly the same spot.…
Progress on New Lynn rail trench
It’s good to see the NZ Herald doing a “good news” article on rail, on the progress of the New Lynn Rail Trench specifically. It seems as though digging the trench is coming along at a surprisingly fast pace – and we can actually see some of the progress for the first time now, as shown in the (small) image below:
The New Lynn Rail Trench is a critical project, and will be the last little bit of the Western Line to be double-tracked.…
Further Auckland Transport Plan Analysis
OK I admit it: I was really harsh on ARTA yesterday, calling the Auckland Transport Plan – their flagship transport document for the next 10 years – an “epic fail”. The main reason I admit to being harsh on ARTA is because they would probably agree with me that the bits I pointed out as being pathetic, are most certainly pathetic in their eyes too.…
Auckland Transport Plan – epic fail
The 10 year Auckland Transport Plan has been released by ARTA. This is the flagship document to drive transport planning and construction over the next 10 years in the Auckland Region.
I will comment a lot more on this plan over the next few days, and there are some pretty good things in it.…
More on the RLTP
Yesterday I looked at the Regional Land Transport Programme in quite a bit of detail, so I’m not going to rehash everything I said in that post obviously. The main point I came to was that ARTA had done their best to ignore the stupid changes to the government policy statement for transport – and good on them for doing so.…
Regional Land Transport Programme Released
The ARTA 2009/10 to 2011/12 Regional Land Transport Programme has been released. This particular document is the kind of “end product” when it comes to transport planning and funding in the Auckland Region, and talks about all the transport projects that will take place in the next three years.…
The Howick/Botany Line II
A few months ago I outlined an idea for the route of a “Howick/Botany Line” that could provide high quality public transport to a significant part of Auckland that completely lacks any form of half-decent public transport at the moment. The concept of providing a rapid-transit link between Manukau City and Panmure/Glen Innes via Flat Bush and Botany Town Centre has emerged in a few plans that ARTA has put together over the years – but never anything more than a vague arrow.…
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