The Newmarket stuff-up
It would seem as though a rail upgrade in Auckland can never go off without a hitch, and so it is proving with the Newmarket Station improvements. The station itself is coming along very nicely indeed, and will be ready for train services on January 18th – in just over a week’s time.…
14 Comments The Local Government (Auckland Law Reform) Bill
Auckland’s Super City is being established through three different pieces of legislation. Two of those – the Local Government (Tamaki Makaurau Reorganisation) Act and the Local Government (Auckland Council) Act – have already been passed into law. The third piece of legislation, the Local Government (Auckland Law Reform) Bill, is currently open for submissions, until February 12th.…
Electrification contract to be signed on Thursday
Within a rather interesting NZ Herald article on what rail works have been progressed during the holiday period, there’s also mention of a rather important upcoming milestone in the rail electrification project – the signing of the contract for the main electrification works.…
Transmission Gully – BCR of 0.6
So it has been confirmed: the Transmission Gully Motorway will not even come close to providing benefits that match its cost. An interesting article from the Dominion Post on it:
The cost of upgrading the coastal highway north of Wellington could have ballooned to nearly $2 billion, almost twice the cost of building Transmission Gully.…
Sorting out Warkworth
Now that the $400 million Orewa-Puhoi Motorway has been shown to have done nothing to alleviate congestion north of Auckland (instead it has simply shifted the bottleneck from Orewa to Warkworth), it seems like there is quite a lot of talk about what should be done about this problem.…
Holiday
I am up north on holiday at the moment so don’t expect any posts for a few more days I am sorry.
Interestingly, on our way up north we found a way to bypass Warkworth by going via a few gravel roads behind Puhoi.…
Transport and Urban Form
Jarrett, from the excellent Humantransit blog, has dug up a few of his older posts from 2009 – of which one in particular caught my eye: the interaction between transport and urban form:
Of course transportation is completely bound up with urbanism, and demand for it is derived from other demands of urban life.…
Transport in 2030
A very good article in today’s herald pontificating about where transport is headed over the next 20 years:
Life in 2030: Public transport and battery power set to be way of the future Electric-bicycle carts for our shopping and sail-assisted cargo ships for our exports are examples of transport innovations needed for New Zealand to survive a looming oil supply squeeze.…
2010
Well I suppose as it’s now the New Year we can roll out that crystal ball and have a bit of a think about what will happen this year – 2010. As an aside, I’m still not sure whether we’ll the year “twenty-ten” or “two-thousand-and-ten”.…
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