Fixing the rail crossing at Ngāruawhāhia?
The crossing over the Waikato River at Ngāruawhāhia is one of two pinch points of single track on the rail line between Auckland and Hamilton, the other being through the Whangamarino swamp north of Te Kauwhata.
The crossing also is a hot spot of near misses and fatalities with an 11-year-old girl being struck by a train very recently.…
69 Comments Health and carbon consequences of current transport arrangements in NZ cities
This is a guest post by Caroline Shaw, Ed Randal, Alistair Woodward and Michael Keall
NZ is the most car dominated country in the world, but transport patterns vary across our urban centres. The six largest NZ cities have had different histories and priorities, which over time, has led to quite diverse transport arrangements (see Table 1).…
Huge Housing Development at Unitec announced
Yesterday, inside the stunning wharenui of the Te Noho Kotahitanga Marae at Unitec, the government announced it was purchasing 29 hectares of land from Unitec for a huge housing development as part of their Kiwibuild policy. The Government has announced the first major development under its ambitious KiwiBuild programme with the purchase of 29 hectares of land for thousands of houses in Auckland.…
Fix Our City
This is a guest post from Leroy Beckett of Generation Zero
Every three years Auckland Council consult on their plan for the next 10 years. It covers everything from the transport budget to targeted rates and goals for our environment.
That consultation is currently underway.…
Sunday reading 25 March 2018
Welcome back to Sunday Reading. Here are a bunch of articles I’ve been collecting over the last month. I’ll start off here with housing, or more specifically zoning. Recently published research reveals the outrageous costs that zoning adds to housing in Australia.…
Flashback Saturday: Will the proposed Waitemata Harbour Crossing be good for drivers?
This post was first published by Patrick in January 2016.
There are many reasons to be concerned about the plan to add more road lanes across Auckland’s Waitemata Harbour: from the extreme cost of building such big tunnels and interchanges [$5-$6 billion and four times as much as just building rail tunnels], to the undesirable flooding of city streets and North Shore local roads with even more cars, to the increase in air pollution and carbon emission this will create, the loss of valuable city land to expanded on and off ramps and parking structures, to the impact on the harbour of exhaust stacks and a supersized motorway on the Shore, to the pressure this will put on the rest of the motorway system particularly through the narrow throat of Spaghetti Junction.…
Ready Aim? Fire: The Auckland Plan’s missing transport targets.
Time is running out to submit on the Auckland Plan and 10 year budget. Please do, if nothing else just go there to support the all important Regional Fuel Tax, without which very little can be achieved.
Matt discussed it earlier here.…
Constructive conversations about change
Over the next few years Auckland’s streets will see unprecedented change. This may be in the form of expanding our safe cycling network to provide healthy, safe and sustainable travel options. It may be in the form of bus lanes to improve the reliability of our bus network and encourage more people to use public transport.…
Improving Wellington’s Rail Network Part 2
In the last post we looked at the current Wellington rail network and its more recent upgrades, in this post we are going to look into the future upgrades. Wellington has submitted budget bids for around $200 million with the new Government in line with Greater Wellington Regional Council’s Wellington Regional Rail Plan 2010-2035.…
Crash costs continue to climb
One of the most disappointing trends in recent years has been the steadily increasing road toll. From a low of 249 deaths in the year to the end of Feb-2014, as of the end of Feb 2018 we’re at 385 and as of the Tuesday it reached 399.…
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