Flashback Saturday: Road to Zero – the new road safety strategy

This post by Matt was originally published in July 2019 Last week Associate Transport Minister Julie Anne Genter released for consultation a draft of a new road safety strategy for New Zealand – known as “Road to Zero”. The Minister’s foreword to the strategy outlines the “case for change” in a pretty compelling way: Across New Zealand, more than one person is killed every day and seven others are seriously injured in road crashes.…
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A Hollow Victory for Auckland Council

On Friday last week, the High Court released its decision on the All Aboard Aotearoa (AAA) vs Auckland Transport and Auckland Council judicial review. The topic was the decision-making around the Auckland Regional Land Transport Plan (RLTP). This plan estimates its investments will lead to an estimated 6% increase in Auckland’s transport emissions by 2031, and that the Government’s clean car policy and shift to biofuels mean the final result will be a paltry 1% reduction.…
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Cancelled Buses

If you’ve tried catching a bus over the last few weeks and not had any issues, count yourself lucky, as a wave of cancellations have been striking bus routes all over the region. For example, this was what AT’s mobile app showed me on a trip last week – I had caught the 866 after an NX1 service was cancelled and was hoping to transfer to the 20, but it too was cancelled, along with a few Inner Links in a row.…
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Weekly Roundup 08-July-2022

Kia ora! Hope you’ve had a good week, and welcome to our Weekly Roundup. Header image by Jessica Rose, from Twitter The week in Greater Auckland On Monday, Matt wrote about improving and electrifying regional rail. Tuesday’s post looked at Mayoral candidate Viv Beck’s quite sensible transport policy.…
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