Media on City Rail Link
It has been interesting to see the media’s response to last week’s release of the City Rail Link’s business case review. Initially it seemed that the reaction was quite negative towards the project – with many outlets reporting that it seemed as though the original business case had (in the words of Steven Joyce) “massaged the figures”.…
41 Comments City Rail Link – where to next?
Later today (2pm in the town hall if you’re interested) Auckland Council’s transport committee will receive a report and presentation from Council and Auckland Transport staff on the City Rail Link project. Much of the documentation just a repeat of an earlier confidential report to the Transport Committee last month – talking about funding options and a possible consenting process for the project over the next few years.…
City Rail Link: Questions & Answers
A few commenters have been saying that to continue to build public pressure for the “City Rail Link” project, it’s necessary to articulate in layman’s terms the benefits of the project. This is particularly in terms of explaining its potential benefits for people who don’t live or work in the CBD.…
Population, cars and Public transport use (1920 – 2011)
From time to time I have a look around the Auckland Transport website to see if anything new and interesting is added. I decided to do that today and found this graph, it is showing the history of Auckland’s population, the number of PT trips as well as the total number of registered cars in the country as well as the number of new cars registered each year from 1920 through to 2011.…
Rail feeder buses
One of the main differences between the calculated benefits of the Ministry of Transport’s review of the City Rail Link project and the revised analysis undertaken by Auckland Council and Auckland Transport of the project depends on the extent to which many of the current “long-haul” bus services are turned into rail feeder buses.…
Hindsight: Auckland’s growing pains
Through this excellent article by Tim Watkin, I came across a really interesting documentary on the history of Auckland’s growth and development: Click the pictures above to go through to the whole video.
It’s amusing to see how excited they were about building giant parking buildings.…
Rail Link Review – digging deeper
The wealth of documents the Ministry of Transport has published on its website in relation to the review of the CBD Rail Link project provide a unique insight into the process that has gone on throughout the review process. If only the development of all business cases (yes, I’m looking at you Puhoi-Wellsford) were able to be so openly analysed.…
City Rail Link – who benefits?
Searching through the vast number of documents produced as part of the CBD Tunnel review shows up some interesting things from time to time. One is the distribution of the project’s benefits – by ‘point of origin’ – contained within this report by Richard Paling Consultants: The map obviously has some typical flaws – like the fact that clearly most of the Waitakere Ranges is being caught in the same Census Area Unit as a place like Swanson that will benefit significantly from the project.…
Auckland vs Government
The different positions taken by Central Government and the Auckland Council over the business case for the CBD Rail Tunnel project are at first difficult to reconcile. The business case process, the calculations of cost-benefit analyses, the work of the various officials should be objective and independent, theoretically at least there should be a right answer out there.…
Traffic volumes on Auckland’s motorway system
The agenda for Tuesday’s meeting of the Auckland Council Transport Committee has been uploaded (part 1, part 2) and there are a number of interesting items. Perhaps the most interesting will be a presentation and discussion on the CBD Rail Tunnel project – which it seems the council is now officially calling the “City Rail Link” (isn’t that what I suggested a few months back?)…
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