Manukau Rail Link
A couple of years ago there was a lot of debate about where the Manukau Rail Link should terminate – with Manukau City Council showing their true colours as a roads-loving council by not stumping up the few extra million to bring the link truly into the heart of Manukau City Centre.…
23 Comments Dear NZTA…
I sent NZTA this email on August 27th, and have yet to receive a response beyond “your letter has been passed on to the appropriate person”…. hopefully this post might give them a bit of a hurry up!
Hi there,
Reading through the National Land Transport Programme released today I noticed that one project mentioned for development in the longer-term is a busway between Albany and Orewa.…
What if we hadn’t built CMJ?
Yesterday’s post about Auckland’s Central Motorway Junction got me thinking a bit – what if we hadn’t gone down that path? What if we hadn’t rammed a massive motorway junction through the centre of our city? Could we have done things a bit differently and would the final product have ended up better?…
Capping Spaghetti Junction?
I must admit that as a kid I thought Auckland’s Central Motorway Junction (known locally as ‘spaghetti junction’) was one of the coolest things ever. There were so many ramps going this way, that way and the whole thing appeared to me as one of the great engineering feats that Auckland had achieved.…
Britomart bus terminal – a bit of a mess?
When the Britomart train station was built, the council somehow pulled off an impossible feat (you would think) and turned a public square (Queen Elizabeth II square, which admittedly was more of a wind tunnel than a square) into a road, well OK a road that only allow buses along it – but still basically a road.…
Highway widening and CO2 emissions
One of the best things about this blog becoming more and more widely read is that I am increasingly having people email me interesting links to transport research or transport-related events happening around Auckland. I also seem to have ended up on ARTA’s emailing list for all media releases these days (perhaps I am now an important stakeholder?)…
Bus strike on Wednesday
Well it’s going to be an interesting day on Wednesday, with all NZ Bus services being suspended from 4am onwards due to some complicated situation that sounds like a strike, but apparently isn’t.
The drivers’ employer is threatening to lock bus drivers out over the stoppage action.…
Auckland’s rail system in 2030?
I have done a number of posts on ideas about what Auckland’s rail system should look like in 20 or so years time before, partly because it’s fun to come up with the ideas, but also because I think it is essential that we have a long-term vision for what we want the rail system to look like in 2020, 2030 and beyond.…
London v Auckland – transport emissions
Joel Cayford is on the Auckland Regional Council, and keeps a most excellent blog where he comments on planning, transport and other matters quite regularly, and in good detail too. A post that he made a week or so ago included a table that really caught my eye:
London’s population in 2006 was just over six times Auckland’s population, and yet their transport emissions were below twice of ours.…
Will Auckland be a super Super-City?
Today saw the release of the Auckland Governance Legislation Committee’s report on the hearings that were held as part of the reorganisation of Auckland’s local government and the formation of what most people think of as “the Super City”. I made a submission on the plans back in June, and then presented my ideas to the select committee in early July.…
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