Rail services – post CBD tunnel
Amid a rather large amount of discussion surrounding the CBD Rail Tunnel that I’ve had over the past few days has been a focus on how having that tunnel operational would affect rail service patterns. The diagram below shows the current three lines that we have in Auckland: Green being the Western, Red the Southern and Yellow the Eastern Line.In…
3 Comments National Cycleway Fund Applications
I had someone send me a list of all the applicants for funding from the government to form parts of the future New Zealand cycle trail. It makes for quite interesting reading, with the ones in the Auckland region being highlighted:Whilst the cycleway project certainly hasn’t been the unemployment busting project that it was originally thought up as being, it is still a pretty exciting idea.…
Mobile Technology & Public Transport
I remember reading a few years back something which put a lot of public transport’s renaissance (worldwide, not just in New Zealand) over the past few years down to the iPod. Their argument was that being able to listen to music on your iPod, without the hassles of skipping Discmans or bulky Walkmans of previous generations (and their inherent capacity issues) made public transport a more attractive transport option than it had been previously.…
Newton Station – extending the CBD?
Perhaps the most interesting thing to come out of the phase one report into Auckland’s future CBD rail tunnel was the relocation of a Mt Eden/Newton station from underneath Exmouth Street to underneath Symonds Street – in the location shown by the diagram below (north is to the left of the image).…
Decisions on RLTS submissions
Hearings on the Regional Land Transport Strategy began today, with the hearings commissioners making decisions on the 166 submissions on the RLTS that were received. A summary of opinions on the RLTS is outlined in a fairly short report that accompanies the documentation for the RLTS hearings, while decisions on each individual point made by submitters is included in a rather long document entitled “submission summaries and officer recommendations” (my name is in there if you look hard enough for it!)…
Phase 1 of CBD Rail Tunnel Study Released
Ooooooohhhhh…. exciting. I love to see some progress on my favourite project of all time – the CBD rail tunnel. Last year ARTA and KiwiRail finally kicked the planning of what I consider to be Auckland’s most important transport project into action – by commissioning a fully study into the best alignment of the CBD Rail Tunnel, a full cost-benefit analysis of the project and finally all the documentation that would be required to lodge a notice of requirement to protect the route for the CBD rail tunnel.…
The Waterview Debacle
Late last year NZTA announced another alignment for the Waterview Connection motorway link between Mt Roskill and State Highway 16 at Pt Chevalier. As I said at the time, the change was certainly a good one – with the project likely to take out around 160 fewer homes than the previous “May 2009 alignment“.…
NSCC on the 3rd Super-City Bill
Joel Cayford’s excellent blog discusses North Shore City Council’s submission on the Local Government (Auckland Law Reform) Bill, and how that council has done an excellent job raising important matters relating to that bill that require modification of further analysis. The submission as a whole is certainly worth reading, but it is the parts relating to the establishment of “Auckland Transport” that are probably of most interest to readers of this blog:
Auckland Transport
Auckland Transport’s objectives
“…The objective and operating principles of Auckland Transport, as set out under s.45 of the Third Bill, are not as specific or wide-ranging as the objectives for ARTA under the (soon to be repealed) Local Government (Auckland) Amendment Act 2004….”…
RWC + Auckland’s public transport = epic fail?
An interesting article appeared in the Dominion Post today, and is also on the “Stuff” website, raising the question of whether Auckland’s public transport system will be able to cope with the influx of visitors expected for the 2011 Rugby World Cup.…
Rethinking Traffic Management
Discussion about whether cutting the power to traffic lights last Monday made things better or worse reminded me of an article that I read a year or so back about how we perhaps need to completely rethink the way we approach traffic management, and in particular whether it is actually good to have such a strong obsession with separating pedestrians from vehicles, making who has the ‘right of way’ so clear, and cluttering up the urban landscape with a million signs telling drivers what they should and shouldn’t be doing.…
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