Thoughts on “Band-Aid” solutions
There are often two competing arguments when it comes to transport investment: Build the project now, you’re going to need it eventually
Only build what you need when you need to build it This is a really interesting debate, because both sides of the argument have a good point to make.…
43 Comments The Paris Metro in Auckland
Paris is an amazing city, it has so many great sights to see, like the one below But for transport geeks like me, there is another thing about Paris that is amazing, its metro system. Accord to Wikipedia it is one of the densest and most used metro systems in the world with over 300 stations and 4.5 million passengers per day.…
Measuring ‘transport benefit’ better
In transport planning there’s a lot of talk about ‘cost-benefit analyses’, leading to a “BCR” (benefit cost ratio) for a particular project. Projects with a BCR of greater than 1.0 deliver more benefits than the money expended upon them (and any disbenefits the project generates) and are therefore worth considering spending money upon.…
Can these RoNS Make a Right?
*An old post for a little holiday reading, especially as Steven Joyce is on Twitter repeating that tendencious line about the $1billion dollar duplicate Holiday Highway being all about making the Northland economy go wild. Enjoy.*
It is interesting that Transport Minister Gerry Brownlee invoked the Auckland Harbour Bridge in a recent interview about the Roads of National Significance.…
Looking at how Auckland will develop
It is said that the government and the Auckland council agree on 95% of what was in the Auckland Plan but the problem though is that some of the things they didn’t agree on are the big bits like the CRL or perhaps even more importantly how the city develops over the coming decades.…
From a fly on the wall, deep inside the NZTA
Its scary just how accurate this sounds, hopefully the fly doesn’t get discovered and we get some more insights from it.
Great work Radio NZ (this is from last Sunday).…
Is the pressure mounting on government over the RoNS?
This blog has long been critical of the government for its Roads of National Significance (RoNS) program. This not because of political ideology (us bloggers have different political views) but because many of them they are being progressed under the guise of improving the economy despite the evidence suggesting that many of them, like Puhoi to Wellsford, don’t pass basic economic tests.…
Auckland’s PT Trends
The agenda for next week’s meeting of the Council’s Transport Committee includes an interesting item on transport monitoring, which looks at how Auckland’s transport system is performing in comparison to a number of targets that were set in the Auckland Spatial Plan.…
How the regions fare from the NLTP, the Ws have it
Thinking about the NLTP announcements and Rudmans article yesterday I wondered, which regions are really doing well out of the funding announcements and which ones aren’t doing so well. It appears that if the name of your region starts with a W then you will be doing much better off.…
Rudman rightly slams the NLTP
Brian Rudman was in fine form in yesterday’s NZ Herald, highlighting that behind all the fancy words of the National Land Transport Programme, both Auckland and public transport get a pretty raw deal:
In Auckland’s case, of the $3.37 billion Mr Brownlee plans to invest, $816 million comes from Auckland Council.…
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