Long Term Plan Feedback So Far
The Council is currently consulting on the Long Term Plan (LTP) which is the city’s 10 year budget. A key discussion of this LTP is whether we should implement motorway tolling or increase Rates/Fuel taxes to pay all of the transport projects on the council’s plans – unless we want a scaled back and ineffectual transport system.…
28 Comments Our Port and the Harbour
8-10am tomorrow morning there is a meeting organised by groups concerned about the lack of governance and oversight by Council over the Port Company. Whether you can make it tomorrow or not, if you agree that the Port Company needs more oversight and governance from the Council, visit this page and them them know.…
New and improved bus services for Stonefields and Glenfield/Beach Haven
This week Auckland Transport have made a number of changes to bus routes including introducing a new service.
The major changes are on the North Shore with Birkenhead Bus services where the changes came into effect on Sunday. Key changes include additional trips and changed timetables that mean there will be services down Onewa Rd at least every 15 minutes all day, seven days a week.…
New details on ATs Light Rail plans
A presentation from Auckland Transport to the council provides us with a lot more detail about what they’re proposing with Light Rail and how it complements the CRL rather than competes with it.
We’ve covered some of these aspects in other posts before but it’s worth highlighting some of them again.…
A Look inside the CRL stations
A presentation from Auckland Transport to the council gives us an update on the CRL glimpse inside the stations – along with more information on AT’s Light Rail plans which I’ll discuss tomorrow.
As a quick update it notes that nearly 50 out of 70 properties needed have been purchased and that AT will start subterranean purchases this year.…
MoT’s review of capital spending on roads, part 3
This is the second post in a series on the Ministry of Transport’s working paper on New Zealand’s capital spending on roads, which was prepared as an input to the 2015/16 Government Policy Statement (GPS) on Land Transport Funding. It was released to Matt under the Official Information Act just before Christmas.…
Sunday reading 22 February 2015
Every week we read more than we can write about on the blog. To avoid letting good commentary and research fall by the wayside, we’re going to publish weekly excerpts from what we’ve been reading.
Deborah Snoonian Glenn, “Want your city to thrive?…
The most accurate car commercial
This is possibly the best, or at least most accurate car commercial ever. It was obviously intended to show the company cares about people but really shows just how much space we dedicate to the movement of vehicles. It’s from 2003.…
Pohutukawa Saved
The roller-coaster ride that has been the fate of the six Pohutukawa at the St Lukes intersection came to a head yesterday at the Auckland Transport board meeting where a decision needed to be made one way or the other on their fate. …
Aucklands first Bike Rave
We’ve seen it overseas and now it’s coming to Auckland – as a trial. Introducing the city’s first Bike Rave. We’re pilot testing a wee bike rave, so we can hold a bigger one later in the year.
*Light* up your bike and come along for a night-time waterfront bike ride from Mission Bay to Wynyard Quarter (with a little add-on along the shiny new Westhaven boardwalk).…
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