Waterview Connection – hearing starts Monday
After years of background work, arguments, designs, redesigns, re-redesigns and so forth, the Waterview Connection project will have its official planning hearing from Monday onwards. The hearing is likely to be quite lengthy, with NZTA putting forward a vast array of witnesses, Auckland Council doing similar, and a relatively large number of submitters also being very interested parties.…
5 Comments Auckland Transport: struggling to be accountable, open and responsive
Auckland Transport has impressed me in quite a few ways since they formed in November last year. They responded quickly to a cyclist’s death on Tamaki Drive to remove parking spaces, they seem to have a (long overdue) renewed focus on improving Auckland’s bus system and they’ve been fairly responsive to my requests for information – such as the questions I posed to CEO David Warburton that I got answered a couple of weeks back.…
NZTA’s February Board Meeting
The agenda for NZTA’s February board meeting, which took place this morning in Wellington, has been posted on their website. Here’s an outline of what was discussed: Probably items 2, 4, 7 and 8 are the most interesting. Time to send off the OIA requests!…
Random Questions
Just some random questions that I have been thinking about:
Why does the NZTA have its Auckland offices effectively directly above Britomart by being in the HSBC building? It is about as far away from the motorways as you can get in the CBD and is right above the best public transport spot in the city.…
The southeast railway line (part 1)
As I mentioned in a post a few days ago on how I think Auckland should integrate transport into its future spatial plan, probably the biggest planning mistake ever made in Auckland’s history is allowing so much development occur east of the Tamaki River: with such poor transport connections.…
CBD Tunnel: behind the scenes
When the CBD Tunnel business case was released in November last year there was a real flurry of reaction from central government. The reaction started with Minister of Transport Steven Joyce questioning a number of aspects of the business case and has eventually led to the formation of a review group: encompassing representatives from a number of agencies potentially involved in the project – to examine the questions raised about the business case and suggest ways in which the project can – or whether it should – move forwards.…
Parking guru on National Radio
There was an interesting interview of parking guru Donald Shoup – author of “The High Cost of Free Parking” – on Sunday morning’s national radio. You can listen to the interview here.
Mr Shoup makes some excellent points, recognising the highly political and somewhat irrational feelings which are related to parking.…
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