Long term regional rail in NZ
Occasionally it’s quite fun to look 50 years into the future and ask questions around “what will it be like?” Even the longest term planning documents around tend to just look at a 30 year vision, so going to 50 years is certainly another jump into the future beyond that point – but it’s quite fun and potentially quite useful to make sure what we’re doing in the next 10-20 years doesn’t limit our ability to do potentially very long-term projects.…
70 Comments Guest Post: A Different Look at Supply
This is a Guest Post by Kent Lundberg, who is an Urban Planner at Isthmus where this blog post was first published.
Little ol’ New Zealand made global news a few days back with a story about our extreme house prices.…
The Snapper/HOP debacle finally resolved?
Well I chose a rather dramatic couple of weeks to be out of the country – I come back and it seems as long last we might have sorted out the integrated ticketing problem and finally given Snapper the boot. Good riddance I say!…
Smart Transport for New Zealand
Generation Zero have released a nifty little video about improving the way in which we spend our transport budget so we are building for the future, not the past: They are also promoting a petition, calling for a significant rebalancing of the transport budget.…
Fried Snapper
Snapper is gone. This from AT:
Auckland Transport Chief Executive, David Warburton, said this afternoon, in the interests of protecting Aucklanders’ money and progressing the essential outcome of a first-class integrated ticketing programme for public transport in the region, Auckland Transport has terminated its participation agreement with Snapper Services Limited.…
Guest Post: Downtown Separated Bike Facilities: Vancouver
This is a Guest Post by Kent Lundberg, who is an Urban Planner at Isthmus where this blog post was first published.
I’m sure one of the things that Peter M will encounter on his trip to Vancouver is the expansion of fully separated bike infastructure throughout the downtown.…
More Matangi trains for Wellington
Some pretty exciting news for Wellingtonians today – with an announcement that instead of refurbishing the rather old Ganz Mavang trains, Wellington will instead replace them with an extension of their current order for new Matangi trains:
Greater Wellington Regional Council (GWRC) and the NZ Transport Agency announced today they intend to replace rather than refurbish the existing Ganz Mavag trains to complete the region’s peak train requirements.…
Goodbye pork pie? The demise of major industries and wider implications for New Zealand’s transport sector
Several major industries in New Zealand may be in their death throes.
First came the news last week that Tiwai Point was looking to renegotiate their electricity price contract with Meridian, apparently because of plunging global aluminium prices. Then we heard that Norske Skog is looking to halve the production of pulp and paper at their Kawerau Mill, again because of plunging prices for newsprint.…
Talk Trains With Veolia
Just a quick public service reminder that the last two “Talk Trains” sessions are tonight at Britomart, 5:00pm to 6:00pm and tomorrow night at Newmarket, 5:00pm to 6:00pm.
Senior managers from Veolia Transport, Auckland Transport and KiwiRail, will be at the sessions to answer questions customers may have about a wide range of topics from infrastructure, to timetables, maintenance, seating and the future of rail.…
Guest Post: Emerging – Bike Boxes
This is a Gust Post by Kent Lundberg, who is an Urban Planner at Isthmus where this blog post was first published.
Bike boxes are appearing all over the Auckland city centre. They are a widely debated technique to provide more awareness to cyclists at intersections and in some cases to provide maneuvering room for turns.…
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