Time to Invest in Vital New ‘Pipe’
Transport infrastructure is just one of small group of vital core systems that the entire edifice of the city depends upon. This group; the water, wastewater, electricity, telecommunications, and transport structures of a city are critical to its wellbeing and success.…
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The first of what I’m sure will be our superb new electric trains is under construction in Spain. The body shell for the first of the carriages has been completed and have already taken a trip to the paint shop to get its colours with details like logo added later in the process.…
Hear Human Transit’s Jarrett Walker in Auckland
Here is a special event that has been opened up to ATB readers. In addition to the student-based Get Connected event featuring Joshua Arbury, Patrick Reynolds and Anthony Cross, Jarrett Walker will be speaking at an IPENZ Transportation Group function on Wednesday 20 March 5PM at the Beca House Auditorium.…
The land supply issue
The question of how many available sections there are in Auckland for development has yet again raised its head in the last couple of days, with much debate over whether there are 15,000 or 2,000 or some number in between of sections available to build houses on.…
A fight looming over charging FBT on carparks
News hit yesterday of an unlikely alliance between a business association and one of the large unions. They were teaming up together to fight a proposal by the government make employer provided carparks subject to fringe benefit tax (FBT).
Unionists and business groups have joined forces in a rare alliance to lash out at a new tax on employees who receive free carparks as part of their remuneration packages.…
How future proofed is it really?
In 2010 Len Brown campaigned on three major rail projects, the CRL, rail to the Airport and rail to the Shore. If there was one issue with them though, it is that to some they are too bold. Despite getting strong support among many members of the public, vocal opponents point to primarily to their price tags as a reason not to build them.…
Rudman on the recent transport chaos
Brian Rudman has hit the nail on the head with his piece this morning and raised many of the same points we frequently do:
But let’s not allow the authorities to persuade us that last Thursday’s logjam was a one-off event, and to pin the blame on the drivers involved in the motorway pile-up.…
What is the cost of congestion?
We spend a lot of money each year trying to “fix” congestion in Auckland and across New Zealand. In fact, it seems that the bulk of transport spending in this country has “fixing congestion” as its ultimate aim – which is a little odd as research from the USA shows that the most congested cities are the cities with the highest levels of economic productivity.…
Setting up PT to fail for a weekend of big events
This weekend has been described as perhaps one the biggest of the year due to the sheer number of events that are on around the city. Some of the events included: Pasifica at Western Springs
The Auckland Art festival with large crowds particularly at the domain for The Breath of the Volcano (it was very good show).…
Avoiding “gridlock”
There’s been a lot of discussion after Auckland’s roading network completely collapsed on Thursday due to a crash on the Newmarket viaduct, which caused huge delays.
More than two hours later, traffic on almost all of the city’s arterial routes was gridlocked, with buses backed up in city streets and motorists reporting speeds of less than 10km/h.…
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