Making a Fair Light Rail/Metro Comparison
Recently the government announced the next steps for light rail in Auckland, the creation of an Establishment Unit to come up with a recommendation of what to build before the end of the year. A few weeks ago former Chief Executive of Manukau City Council, Leigh Auton, was appointed as the chair for the Establishment Unit.…
114 Comments Weekly Roundup – 07-May-20
Here’s our wrap up for the week. Queen St to Change
Good news yesterday afternoon, the group fighting to return Queen St to a car focused corridor failed in their bid to get an injunction on the improvement works.
Today’s High Court decision not to grant the injunction sought by Save the Queen Street Society means Auckland Council and Auckland Transport are able to proceed with planned improvements to the northern end of Queen Street between Customs and Shortland Streets.…
AT’s latest PT and Bike Numbers
It’s been a while since we’ve seen how public transport and bike numbers have been tracking but yesterday Auckland Transport finally updated them. I’ve been waiting for these as we’re now over a year since the pandemic struck and lockdown resulted in dramatic changes to how we work and travel.…
The fight for Queen St
Auckland Transport are currently consulting on a makeover for Queen St with consultation closing this Friday. As I wrote two weeks ago, there are some good elements to the plans though we think AT should go further to prevent cars using the street.…
Weekly Roundup – 30-Apr-21
Here’s our weekly roundup RLTP submissions
Submissions for Auckland Transport’s Regional Land Transport Programme (RLTP) close on Sunday so if you haven’t completed one yet, get on to it. As Heidi wrote the other day, a key flaw in the plan is at best it hopes to hold vehicle travel steady which is at odds with both government and council plans, as well as the draft recommendations from the Climate Change Commission that we need to reduce vehicle travel.…
NZ Upgrade Programme review a blessing in disguise
In January last year, just before the Covid-19 pandemic struck, the government announced a $12 billion spend-up on infrastructure – known as the New Zealand Upgrade Programme. Over half of that, $6.8 billion, was earmarked for a series of major transport projects across the country.…
Apr-21 AT Board Meeting
It’s been more than two months but tomorrow the Auckland Transport board meet again and so as I often do, I’ve had a look through the reports for anything interesting that stands out. Unfortunately, at the time of writing the post they haven’t uploaded the closed session agenda, which gives an indication as to some of the more interesting projects.…
Weekly Roundup – 23-Apr-21
Here’s our roundup for the week. City Rail Link
There have been some more great images and progress out of the City Rail Link team.
Last Friday there was a ceremonial spade in the ground at Aotea Station to mark a move to starting to dig underground.…
Transmission Gully PPP Review
Transmission Gully has long been a dog of a project. From it’s poor initial business case, to it being made a Public Private Partnership that would see taxpayers forking out over $3 billion over the coming decades and then having cost blow out after cost blowout and a range of other issues.…
Queen St makeover
Queen St has been the subject of plenty of discussion over the last few years. There’s been the discussion of light rail, the council unanimously voting to trial making it more pedestrian friendly and then being completely ignored and undermined by council and Auckland Transport officials and then there’s the covid emergency works that were put in place to allow more social distancing.…
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