General Election Debate on Transport – Campaign for Better Transport
The Campaign for Better Transport is holding an election debate with all the major parties this month in Auckland. The CBT is led by Cameron Pitches and over the years has led campaigns and advocated for many transport issues including: Airport Rail
Reopen Onehunga Rail
Rail Electrification
Integrated ticketing
Hamilton – Auckland Rail
City Rail Link
Operation Lifesaver – An Alternative to Puhoi-Warkworth
Northwestern Busway
North Shore Rail
A more economic alternative to the East West Link The Campaign for Better Transport will be hosting a public meeting for political parties to present their transport policies, with a particular focus on Auckland’s needs.…
25 Comments Dual Modes and Axle Loads
Last year KiwiRail made the decision to replace the 16 current 30-year-old EF class electric freight trains currently in use on the North Island Main Trunk with the procurement of more DL Class Diesel Trains. These EF Class trains use the 25kvAC electrification between Te Rapa and Palmerston North that was built during the Think Big years. …
CRL Future Proofing – Learning Lessons from Melbourne
Melbourne is currently doing a lot of work on their rail network in preparation for the future Melbourne Metro, so when it opens they can maximise its potential. In fact, it goes further than future proofing with much of the works being done now so the transformative effect of the Melbourne Metro can be unlocked from day one.…
Bring Back the Grid Network, Bring Back Crosstown 4: The Better Outer Link
The original New Network design was really fantastic. It proposed changing our spaghetti on a map of a bus system focused on one seat rides to everywhere resulting in an inefficient confusing low-frequency radial focused network into a high frequency all day integrated grid based one.…
#Campaign4theMains – Support the Third/Fourth Main
As many of you may be aware there has been a lot of discussion regarding the third and now potentially fourth main.
For those who haven’t here are some great articles to get all caught up. The Third Main Business Case
The Third Main: Why is a $58m rail option being ignored while a $1.4 billion road rolls on?…
Three Waters Infrastructure Part 4 – Green Streets
One the major prerequisites we need to build the houses we need to combat our housing crisis is infrastructure, without it, the development can’t occur. This post is about a highly but often forgotten element of infrastructure Three Waters – Water Supply, Wastewater & Stormwater focusing in this part again on Stormwater.…
Auckland Airport’s Growth Plans
The Airport over the last two months have made their plans for what they call Auckland’s Airport of the Future more concrete.
The AIAL Masterplan is a few years old so let’s first start with a refresh/recap as it is quite interesting.…
New Govt Housing Company – Paerata and Drury West Confirmed
On Sunday Bill English announced a co-investment of up to $600m for network infrastructure needed to support more greenfield growth in north and south of Auckland. This will be through a Crown company called Crown Infrastructure Partners (CIP), formally Crown Fibre Holdings.…
Three Waters Infrastructure; What does Auckland need? – Part 3 – Traditional Stormwater
One the major prerequisites we need to build the houses we need to combat our housing crisis is infrastructure, without it, the development can’t happen. This post is about a highly but often forgotten element of infrastructure Three Waters – Water Supply, Wastewater & Stormwater.…
Women in Urbanism – Event
In exciting new news for Auckland, an emerging new group called Women in Urbanism has been formed. We are passionate about cities and ensuring they meet the needs of women as well as our most vulnerable.
We have two major aims
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