D-Day for the City Rail Link
Tomorrow Councillors will debate the feedback from submissions on the 2012-2022 Long Term Plan (LTP). There’s a lengthy agenda item on the LTP on the Council website, but even it doesn’t get into the details too much – detailed papers will supposedly be distributed separately, which means another mass of documents are likely to be uploaded onto the Council website in the next couple of days.…
21 Comments Financing the EMUs – Is the Government Clipping the Ticket?
One of the things I have being trying to find out recently is more details about the financing arrangements for our new electric trains. We already knew that the government had decided that they would fund them by loaning the money to Auckland Council but we didn’t know much else about it.…
Playing Politics with the CRL
Councillor Brewer continues to play politics with the CRL as reported in this morning’s Herald; here. I guess this isn’t a surprise as he wants the mayor’s job and Brown’s mayoralty is identified with the CRL. Brewer has in the past made the now common National Party claims of ‘supporting’ public transport while going out of his way to attack any real steps towards meaningful change in this direction.…
Fixing Newmarket’s Station Square
In the last decade we have seen some massive improvements to our PT system, especially on the rail network with things like the duplication of the western line. Thankfully we have also seen a shift in thinking and it has been realised that we need more than just functional improvements and that well designed infrastructure is also important in attracting people to use PT.…
What value life?
What is the value of human life? This seemingly academic question is more important than most people appreciate, especially in the context of transport funding decisions.
But before we discuss how the value of human life influences transport funding decisions, let’s first justify the economic concept itself. …
Vancouver Skytrain – ride the system
Further to my last post about the Vancouver Skytrain, I have found three videos which show – sped up – the whole system (except for a bit of the Canada Line). A few things about the videos really stand out to me: The extremely high frequency of trains you see travelling in the opposite direction
The extensive amount of high-rise residential development which has occurred around many of the stations (especially on the Expo Line, which is the oldest)
The fact that most of the Canada Line is in a tunnel, and the difference in tunnel shape between the cut & cover (square tunnel) and bored (round tunnel) sections The videos are a great way to get a good understanding of the system, and also to see a fairly extensive part of Vancouver.…
Website Maintenance
This morning transportblog.co.nz is on the move to a new server. It will take a few hours to do and during this time any comments entered won’t be migrated to the new server.
Because we are changing hosts it may take some time for the new DNS entries to be recognised. …
Vancouver’s Skytrain – the perfect PT?
As I noted in this recent post, Vancouver has had spectacular success with its public transport system over the past 20 years – generating huge growth in patronage, which has helped contribute to Vancouver generally performing extremely well in world liveability rankings.…
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Pro’s of working for MRCagney: You get paid to read about transport (including certain blogs)
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The Wellington St onramp saga
There have been a couple of articles in the NZ Herald this week relating to the ongoing saga around whether the Wellington Street onramp will be reopened. First yesterday:
Pressure is building on the Transport Agency to honour a commitment to reopen an Auckland motorway ramp which it closed during its $406 million Victoria Park tunnel project.…
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