Interesting article in today’s Herald about the Regional Land Transport Strategy: http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10597980
Public consultation on Auckland’s 30-year transport planning blueprint has been delayed for a month after regional politicians denounced a draft document as lacking vision.
The Auckland Regional Transport Committee sent its draft strategy back for a partial rewrite, directing officers to beef up public transport aspirations and give urgency to a central Auckland rail tunnel and airport links.
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Oh, that is good news, Airport rail in 2031 was ridiculous…
Yeah I remember the first time I read through the Draft RLTS being pretty seriously underwhelmed. I was eagerly anticipating some great news, and to see Avondale-Southdown as the number 1 rail priority was pretty bizarre.
Hopefully we see a real push for the CBD Rail Tunnel and Rail to the Airport in a revised document.
CBD rail tunnel is THE number 1 priority… Ken Baguley said so…
Baguley’s certainly come a long way from the guy who didn’t want Grafton Bridge to be bus only hasn’t he?
The obvious issue with the CBD Rail Tunnel is quite simply: “how the heck are we going to get the government to fork out $1.5 billion for rail?”
Ditch the Wellsford-Puhoi double laning and build the CBD tunnel.
Two things Jarbury:
Great BCR and public pressure…