Sydney
Right, I’m off on a quick holiday to Sydney for the next few days! I look forward to riding a few trains and learning a bit more about how both political parties in the upcoming NSW state election appear to be outbidding each other in their promises to expand Sydney’s rail system.…
23 Comments Congestion charging back on the cards?
One aspect of the government’s papers on the Auckland Spatial Plan that has been picked up by the NZ Herald today is the suggestion that some sort of congestion charging mechanism be looked at again as a way of funding Auckland’s future transport requirements:
A paper released by Local Government Minister Rodney Hide before Auckland’s first spatial plan due out in 11 days suggests raising revenue by charging motorists to drive around the Super City at peak times.…
More on the govt’s Spatial Plan papers
While it’s somewhat strange the NZ Herald hasn’t yet picked up on the papers released by the government about the Auckland Spatial Plan, Radio New Zealand ran quite a detailed look at the matter this morning. Firstly, there’s a piece on their website outlining details of the growing divide between Auckland and Wellington’s vision for how Auckland should grow, and how Aucklanders should get around:
The Government says it is unlikely to be able to pay for any of the aspirations expected to be unveiled by the Auckland Council in its plan for the next 30 years.…
Melbourne gets it….
If you read the following about the land-use planning policies of the Victorian state government, in relation to Melbourne, what would you guess their politics to be?
The… government is considering plans for a carbon-neutral, high-density suburb of 12,000 on Footscray Road, in West Melbourne.…
Northern Express: faster boarding essential
An interesting video taken of the queue of people waiting to board Northern Express buses around Britomart this evening: I did a post on this issue a while back – and it seems things have become even more serious since that time. …
NZTA Board Reports
Strangely, about a month or two ago NZTA stopped publishing their board agendas online. The conspiracy theorist in me suggests that they were getting annoyed with people putting in OIA requests for the board papers. Of course, such a situation makes me even more keen on knowing what they’re up to.…
Govt wants Spatial Plan to be a 1960s document
I’ve blogged on many occasions over the past couple of years about how important the Auckland Spatial Plan will be to Auckland’s future. Yesterday the government released its initial thinking on the Spatial Plan and what it thinks Auckland Council should focus on when putting it together.…
Slowing down traffic on Parnell Rise
Waitemata Local Board’s March meeting took place on Tuesday this week. One of the matters considered was a “notice of motion” by board member Christopher Dempsey (who sometimes comments on this blog) relating to measures to improve the safety of Parnell Rise by slowing down traffic.…
CBD Tunnel: unlocking the rail network’s capacity
A significant benefit of the CBD Rail Tunnel project that is often mentioned, but never in too much detail, is the ability of that project to unlock the capacity of the rest of the rail network. What does this actually mean?…
Onewa Road priority measures under attack
Onewa Road, on the North Shore, is certainly one of Auckland’s most congested arterials. That’s what happens when your 1950s transport planner decide to filter around a quarter of the North Shore through one arterial route – no matter how hard you try, it’s always going to be a bottleneck.…
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