Electric Train Driving Simulator
After his interview on TVNZ yesterday where he talked about the congestion free network, Len Brown headed south to Wiri launch the driving simulators for our new electric trains. Patrick and I both went along to have a look at them and also have a go. …
21 Comments Red light running campaign starts
Auckland Transport is starting a new campaign against red light running and have the backing of the police. Here is the press release:
Auckland Transport and Police are combining their efforts to make motorists, motorcyclists, cyclists and pedestrians safer at traffic light controlled intersections.…
More coverage of Congestion Free Network
Getting the information out about out Congestion Free Network has continued once again this morning with Patrick appearing on TVNZ’s Good Morning show to talk about it. What’s different about this one is that TVNZ got Len Brown to respond to our proposal and it seems he seems to be largely supportive of it.…
Manukau bus interchange details emerge
There has been a lot of talk about a bus interchange at Manukau – to complement the rail station – in recent months and years, but not much detail. It seems that behind the scenes quite a lot of work has been going on to sort out the details, and at the Council’s Auckland Plan committee meeting this coming Tuesday, important steps to making the interchange a reality will be taken.…
Marketing the Dream, not the reality
Cars are extremely useful devices for getting around, they are generally comfortable, they can carry all of your crap (depending on the size of them), they provide personal space, driving can even be quite fun but perhaps most importantly they leave when you want and they go where you want which helps to give us more choice in how we get around.…
The awesome Streetmix
Two weeks ago I posted about the excellent Ponsonby Rd Masterplan – note: there is a public open day at the Leys Institute Library Ponsonby, 20 St Mary’s Road, St Marys Bay from 10am-3pm today. In the comments of that post Steve D pointed out an excellent online resource called Streetmix which allows anyone to make simple road cross section diagrams.…
Thinking seriously about the future of Auckland’s port
This is a guest post from reader Aaron Schiff
Ports of Auckland wants to expand the cargo port in the Auckland CBD, and Auckland Council will soon make a decision on this, apparently without having done a detailed study of the relative merits of the expansion plans versus alternative options.…
Hydrogen Cars
In the last few days, there’s been some dicussion in the blog comments over hydrogen vehicles, and whether anything will come of them. One commenter has referred to http://www.cellaenergy.com/, a new startup which is trying to find solutions to some of the problems faced by hydrogen vehicles.…
CRL Hearing Begins
The notice of requirement hearing for the City Rail Link project began yesterday – marking an important phase in securing the necessary resource consents to both protect the route and then enable the project’s construction. Compared to other major transport projects in recent times (Waterview Connection comes to mind as the best example) the consenting process for CRL seems to have been fairly low-key and almost slipping by without much notice.…
CFN presentation to the Transport Committee
Yesterday, we presented our Congestion Free network proposal to the council’s Transport Committee. Unfortunately it wasn’t filmed, but here is our presentation (3.5MB). Much of it readers will have seen before, so don’t be surprised if you have seen most of it already.…
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