Photo of the Day: Red II
Eyelight Lane by Swedish artist David Svensson, commissioned by Auckland Council. Photographs by Patrick Reynolds.…
4 Comments NZTA Predict No Growth For Matakana
This is the third in a series of posts based on the Campaign for Better Transport’s submission to the Puhoi to Warkworth Board of Inquiry. The full presentation is over at bettertransport.org.nz
Previously I pointed out that the NZTA produced Traffic Assessment Report hasn’t factored in a toll for the Puhoi to North Warkworth Toll Road (PNWTR), thus overstating expected volumes on the proposed route.…
The cost of small transport projects
Every year the 21 local boards each get a share of $10 million to spend on transport projects in their area. The money is split up based on the population (except for Waiheke and Gt Barrier). The amount that each local board has to spend from when the funding started in 2012 through to the 2016 is shown in the table below along with how much they have currently planned to spend and what’s left. …
Photo of the day: Auckland at Dusk
A great photo from reader Russell James Smith.…
Comparing Auckland and Wellington rail patronage
With patronage on the rise and the first electric trains starting to carry fare paying passengers in just 18 days it once again starts to raise the question of when annual rail patronage in Auckland will pass that in Wellington. It’s a question we’ve asked before after we got very close to doing so a few years ago but after the RWC hangover wore off, patronage fell away again.…
Getting on with the CRL
There seems to have been a bit of a “passive aggressive ding dong” going on between Mayor Len Brown and Prime Minister John Key over the City Rail Link in recent months. Back in February, Mayor Brown proposed to “kick start” the CRL by building the first section under the downtown shopping mall and some way up Albert Street.…
Photo of the Day: Red
A Small House Fits a Hundred People You Love by Anthony Sumich on the Sturges Rd Railway overbridge. Commissioned by Auckland Council: Cars have their artistic uses too. Happily this being West Auckland not every car was black or grey.
Photograph by Patrick Reynolds.…
ACT Party spokespeople tragically born missing sense of irony
There are many great contradictions in politics, and there’s never enough time to explain them all. Certainly one of the greatest contradictions, though, has to be what some people associated with the ACT party have to say about intensification. The supposed ‘free market party’ seems quite scared of landowners’ rights to develop their land in the way they see fit – something you’d think would be more likely from the Conservative party.…
Improving K’Rd
Below is a plan developed by the Waitemata Local Board working closely with the Karangahape Rd Business Association to improve the area: This is their accompanying text:
Over the next few decades the Karangahape Road area will experience a dramatic increase in growth, especially in the wake of the completion of the Central Rail Link.…
Quick progress on Fanshawe Street bus lane proposal
In early February the blog set out to once again highlight Auckland Transport’s lack of progress on implementing any bus lanes, and highest priority we thought was fixing the Fanshawe Street westbound, which consisted of a few isolated and dysfunctional sections, but mostly had nothing at all.…
Processing...