Weekly Roundup 26-May-2023

Welcome to Friday – again! Hard to believe we’re almost in June. Here’s our latest roundup of stories that caught our eye this week. The Week in Greater Auckland On Monday, Matt covered the transport highlights from this year’s Budget. On Tuesday, Matt asked if the end is finally in sight for bus disruption Yesterday, Matt looked at some of the implications on other projects of the delay on the City Rail Link Reminder on Karanga-a-Hape Station neighbourhood Consultation A quick reminder that today is the last day to give feedback on the consultation for improvements around the Karanga-a-Hape station entrances.…
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The end in sight for bus disruption?

It’s been a tough year for public transport users who have had to suffer through thousands of service cancellations, delays and rail network closures. There is now some home that there may be a little bit of light at the tunnel, it won’t be a train as there’s still a heap of work to do on rebuilding the rail network, but it may well be a bus.…
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Weekly Roundup 19-May-2023

Welcome to Friday. Here’s our latest roundup of stories that caught our eye this week. The Week in Greater Auckland On Monday, Matt looked at Christchurch’s proposal for light rail On Tuesday, Matt covered AT’s Hobson St consultation Yesterday, Matt highlighted how we’re taking resilience more seriously but we need to do the same with emissions reductions The Budget The government delivered their latest budget yesterday.…
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AT’s Hobson St consultation with a difference

Auckland Transport are consulting on plans to add new bus lanes on Hobson St as part of the Northwest Bus Improvements that will see the introduction of a Western Express in November. I’ll cover the consultation later in the post but first, this consultation is somewhat unique due to the inclusion of a single comment that we really need to see happen far more often.…
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Christchurch to finally get Rapid Transit?

Plans for light rail are way off the rails in Auckland and on the ropes in Wellington, could Christchurch get it right and deliver New Zealand’s first modern light rail line? Last week a committee of the Greater Christchurch Partnership, a voluntary coalition of local government, mana whenua and government agencies, were asked to endorse the Greater Christchurch Public Transport Futures Mass Rapid Transit Indicative Business Case.…
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Weekly Roundup 12-May-2023

Welcome to Friday, it’s been a crazy week of weather in Auckland and we’re certainly looking forward to what is meant to be a more settled weekend. Here’s our latest roundup of stories that caught our eye this week. The Week in Greater Auckland On Monday, Matt asked if it is finally time to reform Kiwirail On Wednesday Matt looked at the impacts on public transport of the latest storm induced chaos Yesterday a guest post shone a light on intercity rail in the Upper North Island A continued focus on Kiwirail Kiwirail’s failures have continued to be in the news this week, including this good piece from Radio NZ’s The Detail looking at how things have gotten so bad.…
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