Ohinewai – Morrinsville Rail Deviation
With the new Government and its new transport focuses including “mode neutrality in freight transport planning” I thought this would be a fantastic opportunity to write about something we have been thinking about for a while. While planning bypasses and re-alignments of old routes for expressways or new state highways is often discussed and often also funded very little discussion happens around whether we could do the same on the national rail network.…
80 Comments Dec-17 AT Board Meeting
The last Auckland Transport board meeting of the year is today. It also happens to be outgoing CEO David Warburton’s last one too with his replacement, Shane Ellison, starting on Monday next week. Here’s what I found interesting in the papers.…
Auckland’s 80’s Development Boom
The 1980s saw Auckland’s city centre change considerably. It was then that much of Auckland’s architectural history was demolished, with many of the towers that dominate the skyline today sprouting up in their place. Of course some sites, like that of the old Royal Hotel, are still empty to this day.…
Taking cycle design seriously
Over the past couple of weeks there has been quite a bit of controversy around changes Auckland Transport is making to some streets in the Grey Lynn and Westmere areas to improve the safety and attractiveness of cycling, as well as to improve safety on some of these streets.…
Christchurch Conversion
This is a Guest Post from Sara Templeton. Sara is the Councillor for the Heathcote ward in Christchurch.
Eighteen months ago I was one of the many ‘interested but concerned’ when it came to cycling. I live in Christchurch; flat, dry and a cycling capital of old.…
Oct-17 Ridership
Auckland Transport have published the ridership numbers for October. Here’s the AT table behind the data. The good news is that overall we’re continuing to see good growth but that isn’t universal with some buses and some ferries both seeing declines compared to last year.…
Westfield Flying Junction
Earlier this year I put in an OIA to KiwiRail asking some questions regarding the Auckland Rail Network, however, due to the abundance of transport news I have not been able to post about it.
One of the items that came back to me was preliminary designs for what a Westfield Flying Junction would look like as KiwiRail needed to do one so the NZTA could make sure that any East-West Link design did not preclude its possible future construction.…
How Dense Is Dense? Part 1 – The Quarter Acre Paradise
This is a post from reader Stephen Davis. It originally appeared on his his blog City Beautiful.
When you talk about cities and transport, one term that comes up almost immediately is density. It’s a simple idea – how many or few people are in a given place.…
Northland Rail
As part of the recent Coalition agreement between Labour and New Zealand First, one of the major policy wins for NZF was the creation of a $1 billion a year fund for regional development projects included Regional Rail. It is highly likely that these Regional Rail projects will include upgrades to the Northland rail such North Auckland Line to Whangarei as well as a new branch line to Marsden Point.…
Draft Auckland Plan – needs a lot of work
Yesterday the Council’s Planning Committee approved a draft version of the Auckland Plan. This will be consulted on next year – at the same time as the Long Term Plan, the Council’s 10 year budget. A little press release after the meeting confirmed the important step:
Councillor Chris Darby, Planning Committee chair, says the Auckland Plan is an enormous task that sets out a grand vision for the next 30 years that is dynamic, exciting and almost changing by the day.…
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