AMETI Update – including Busway Video
The other day I took a trip out to Manukau to have a look at the station and made a stop at Ellerslie to see how things had progressed but I also made on other transport related stop (it was actually between the two mentioned).…
18 Comments Boom! or ‘Flight to the Centre’?
An Anne Gibson penned front pager with a screaming headline in Friday’s Herald declared: Auckland House Values Soar
Of course this is based on average figures lumping together all suburbs and all price brackets. But really the data is very patchy, and only Auckland, in fact only parts of Auckland, have values returned to pre-2008 levels.…
The CMJ: Birth of a Dream
Fantastic aerials of the the biggest urban motorway junction in Australasia under construction. From the Whites Aviation collection at the National Library:
Auckland City used to just flow into its surrounding inner suburbs. Weirdly, as seen above they started with arguably the daftest part of the whole plan: The massively over engineered Dominion Rd/New North Rd flyover.…
Ellerslie Station Upgrade – April Update
While out on my trip to Manukau yesterday I stopped off at Ellerslie to see how things were going with the station upgrade. A brief history for those that haven’t followed what is happening, The NZTA are paying for the station upgrade as they have narrowed the platform by 2m which is enough to allow them to build an extra northbound motorway lane. …
Manukau Station Open Day Photos
I popped down to Manukau today to have a look through the station with the open day that AT held, here are my thoughts and some photos.
The main entrance is through a few shipping containers, not the most elegant but understandable considering there is a building being built over the station at the moment.…
Manukau Station opens tomorrow
If you count the tracks into Britomart as just reinstating a line that used to exist (which is true, although originally the tracks were at ground level), then the Manukau branch is the first piece of new track added to Auckland’s rail system since 1930 – when what we know now as the Eastern Line was constructed.…
How do you get to work?
Many regular readers will know that I catch the train to work on an almost daily basis and I was thinking the other day about what kinds of transport my colleagues use to get to work so I decided to do a little survey.…
Western vs Southern line Patronage
In a kind of parochial way I have always wondered which of our rail lines perform better and it is also something that I have seen others debate at various times. The most simple way to do this would be to just look at AT’s regular patronage reports which gives a breakdown of patronage for the Western line and the group of Southern lines which is made up of the Southern line, Eastern line, Onehunga line.…
How Aotea Station will put a Big New Beat into the Heart of Auckland
Aotea is the original name of Great Barrier Island, Motu Aotea, and the name of one of the Maori Great Waka and the harbour where it first landed. It is also the name given to the what is likely to become the most important station on Auckland’s metro system.…
Motorway tolling is a stupid idea
The Auckland Council’s business advisory group has decided, based on what wisdom I don’t know, that the best way to raise the supposedly necessary additional funding to build Auckland super-expensive motorways like an Additional Harbour Crossing and the East-West Link, is through tolling people who travel on the motorway network.…
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