Kiwirail de-electrification decision questioned
Late last year, Kiwirail announced they would stop running electric trains through the Central North Island in favour of just using diesel trains, a decision that seems absurd.
On Friday, OneNews reported on leaked documents suggesting the analysis that lead to that decision was deeply flawed.…
69 Comments May-17 AT Board Meeting
On Tuesday, the Auckland Transport hold their next board meeting, the first with their new directors. Their board reports are usually full of interesting information so always, I’ve gone and pulled out some of the things that stood out to me in the reports available.…
How much would a regional fuel tax raise
In the discussion of transport funding recently, a lot of focus from Mayor Phil Goff has been about introducing a regional fuel tax, something the former Labour government he was apart of approved but that was repealed by the current government before it could be implemented.…
New Board directors for Auckland Transport
On Friday the council finally announced three new board directors for Auckland Transport in a process that was delayed significantly due to the local body elections last year.
Former Finance Minister Sir Michael Cullen, Mary-Jane Daly and Kylie Clegg have been appointed to the board of the Auckland Council-controlled organisation Auckland Transport (AT).…
March Madness 2017 Ridership
The public transport results for March are always the most anticipated of the year because we’re eager to see just how much March Madness lived up to its reputation.
In past years we’ve anticipated big numbers because we’d seen the regular complaints about extremely busy services.…
What’s happening with the transport funding gap?
When the Auckland Transport Alignment Project (ATAP) was completed in September last year, a lot of the initial focus was on how to best fill the $4 billion funding gap the project identified over the next decade. This “gap” arose from being the difference between the $23.7 billion programme of investments across the whole transport network (new projects, PT service costs, asset maintenance, renewals etc.)…
Let’s talk about public transport. Honestly.
Preamble: This is the first of three posts I will write on the transport profession. My goals are to 1) encourage people, especially students, to consider a career in transport and 2) foster a better understanding of pertinent transport issues.
Many regular readers of this blog will also be regular users of public transport.…
The cost of crashes
Imagine how the public would react if they learnt the government, or one of its agencies, wasted billions of dollars of taxpayer money. The public would expect heads to roll. Now imagine what the response would be if it was revealed that the govt/agency had been doing this each and every year.…
Fundraiser update and new campaign tease
We’re going through an exciting time here on the blog. We’ve got just a few days to go on our fundraising drive. Last week we launched our new website and formally changed our name to Greater Auckland. We also revealed that one of the initiatives we want to kick off with the funding is to pay for regular professional, independent surveys of the Auckland population.…
Website and Fundraiser Update
As you can see, Transportblog has now changed to Greater Auckland. This is a big, scary but exciting change for us and we hope you like the look and function of the new website.
A couple of things to point out.…
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