A Wider motorway
This image came up the other day on the NZTA’s Facebook page and it highlights just how much wider SH16 will be between Te Atatu Rd (top) and Lincoln Rd when the works have finished. Before they started work the motorway was just two lanes wide each way.…
46 Comments CRL contracts awarded
Some great news today from Auckland Transport, that they’ve now awarded the contracts for the first two stages of the City Rail Link. The City Rail Link (CRL) takes another significant step forward with the announcement today of the appointment of two construction consortia to commence the first phase of the CRL construction in the Downtown area.…
New Network and Integrated Fares Update
At the Infrastructure Committee two weeks ago not only was there an update on AT’s light rail plans but also on the status of the New Network and Integrated Fares including some maps of what is proposed.
New Network
On the New Network there is the rough timeline of when we’ll see the next steps in the process.…
EMU Faults and CRL Properties
There have been a couple of articles in the Herald in the last few days that are worth talking about. On Friday there was the issue of faults with the new electric trains.
Auckland’s new electric trains are still being bugged by computer software and braking problems, which have brought engineers out from Spain in search of remedies.…
Sunday reading 5 April 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. This week is a bit more eclectic than usual… Lewis Lehe, “Gridlock vs.…
Queen St Transit Mall – Why Wait for LRT?
On Thursday the Herald reported the latest on Auckland Transport’s plans for Light Rail across the isthmus which came following an update to the Council’s Infrastructure Committee. From the presentation online there doesn’t seem to be much new other than what we’ve already seen and unfortunately the meeting wasn’t one filmed under the council’s new webcasting service so we can’t see exactly what was said.…
Waterview February Timelapse
The latest timelapse and photos from the Waterview Connection project. There’s also a newsletter update about the project here.…
Easter Works
This is just a quick reminder that there’s heaps of transport works on this Easter Weekend that could impact your travel
For PT
Bus On Good Friday and Easter Monday, buses will run to public holiday (Sunday) timetables.
There will be no Good Friday NiteRider services.…
Reliability is key to patronage
The other day after another morning hearing on social media about trains being cancelled and delayed (on that day it was the Eastern Line having problems) Next City just happened to tweet this post from their archives about the issue of unreliability.…
Not in my backyard!
As we have written before on Transportblog, we think that choice in housing and transport markets is really important. In particular, Aucklanders need to be able to choose not to live in apartments. Therefore we must act now to ban anyone from building any apartments.…
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