January Waterview update
Russell Brown from Public Address took a ride out to Lincoln Rd the other day and in the process captured some of the immense works going on. Head over to his post to see some more photos.
This also coincided with news that the project is now reached the halfway point with even the NZTA calling the new interchange “towering”
Construction of interchange ramps that will link the Northwestern and Southwestern Motorways (State Highways 16 & 20) when Auckland’s Waterview Connection opens in 2017 has reached the halfway point.…
36 Comments Electric trains now from Papakura
Some good news yesterday with the first electric trains carrying paying passengers now operating from Papakura. Like what happened with the Eastern Line, we’re seeing services start off offpeak only and then over time as any issues (which hopefully there shouldn’t be) get addressed – and And there she went the first electric train service in revenue service on the Southern Line to Britomart pic.twitter.com/JpKgdZAJ9o…
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Guest Post from Ryan Mearns, Communications Director of Generation Zero
After a decade of massive work by the SkyPath team, we’re at the stage where our input really counts! The resource consent is in and submissions closes in just over a week!…
$100 million in Voluntary Tax
The Herald yesterday ran one of the old faithful’s they do from time to time when there’s not much news going on, complain about how much voluntary tax motorists are paying to Auckland Transport.
Motorists have forked out more than $100 million in parking and vehicle fines from Auckland Transport over four years – and owe plenty more.…
Just what are they building
There’s a lot to say about Skycity’s planned New Zealand International Convention Centre and I’ll cover it in more detail soon. In the meantime let’s have some fun.
Yesterday the Herald published some images of what the convention centre could look like when finished with part of the convention centre towering over the old Berlei building.…
Will people choose to buy new vehicle technologies?
Last year we started to take a look at an emerging technology that some claim will revolutionise urban transport – driverless cars. My view is that they aren’t all they’re cracked up to be – if we wanted to, we could easily get the purported benefits by investing in existing, proven technology:
While driverless cars (or hoverboards for that matter) sound exciting, we can’t afford to pin all of our hopes on them.…
On This Day… Park-and-ride, boon or boondoggle?
Today’s “On this Day” post comes from 2012 and was written by Stu Donovan.
Matt L has just dissected AT’s recent announcement regarding the expansion of the Albany Park and Ride.
Park and ride is a vexed transport planning issue: It’s very popular with middle-class commuters and as a result tends to receive a lot of public/political support. …
Guest Post: Road and streetscape design
This is a guest post from reader Richard
Hope you have all had a happy new year. This is my first post on this blog and I am excited to make a positive difference to this country.
Road and streetscape design is important for all of us.…
Falling Fuel Prices
Unless you’ve been hiding under a rock for the past few months, you’ve likely seen – or at least heard about plummeting fuel prices. Back in mid-October the price for a litre of 91 fuel was up close to $2.20 with the average price over the previous two and a half year period being around $2015.…
Will we see new train operators in Auckland and Wellington?
As many readers will know from the monthly board meeting updates we see, Auckland Transport are in the process of putting out a new tender to run all rail services in Auckland from Mid 2016 onwards. Wellington has also going through this same process and ATs reports say they’ve been working with the Greater Wellington Regional Council (GWRC) on some aspects.…
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