Ensuring we don’t fall into the ‘Transurban trap’
Within the next few weeks the government will be deciding on who they partner with to deliver light rail in Auckland. It will be a choice between the NZTA and NZ Infra, a joint venture between the NZ SuperFund and the Quebec based pension fund CDPQ.…
28 Comments Weekly Roundup – 21-Feb-20
Here’s the weekly roundup for this week. Tamaki Dr
On Sunday Transport Minister Phil Twyford and Mayor Phil Goff turned the first sod to kick off construction of an upgrade to Tamaki Dr.
Construction has started on Tamaki Drive to upgrade walking and cycling facilities, forming a critical link in Auckland city’s network of cycleways.…
Dec-19 Ridership
I’ve been bit caught up in other posts so have finally managed to get around to the PT and cycling stats from December. Public Transport
Every year December and January duke it out for the wooden spoon of ridership as the summer holidays see the number of boardings drop dramatically.…
Weekly Roundup – 14-Feb-20
Here’s the weekly roundup for this week. Train Disruption
The big news this week has been the train disruption caused by an unprecedented fire at a Kiwirail signal box in Newmarket. The surprising thing is the scale of the disruption and that it took till Thursday Morning to fix.…
Is the busway extension on the right side at Albany?
Two weeks ago in the weekly roundup post I made this comment in relation to the Northern Busway extension following a flyover video of the Northern Corridor project.
I also confess I still don’t get the point of the busway bridge across the motorway north of Albany which will result in buses doubling back.…
Night Train
This post is by Paul Callister and Heidi O’Callahan
In rail’s heyday, holiday times were hectic. On Christmas Eve in 1938, 16 express trains (including eight bound for Auckland) swept more than 11,000 travellers out of Wellington in a single day. …
Weekly Roundup – 31-Jan-20
As we reach the end of the month and with some kids back at school this week, trains, buses and cycleways have been feeling even busier than normal – and that’s only going to increase next week with more schools back and then in a few more weeks the universities starting.…
The NZ Upgrade transport package
Yesterday the government announced what would be funded as part of their massive $12b infrastructure spend up, that they’ve called “The New Zealand Upgrade Programme“.
As previously indicated, the package includes $6.8 billion on a variety of transport projects and we now know what those are – I managed to correctly pick many of them in my post yesterday.…
What we may see in the infrastructure announcement today
Today the government are announcing what projects they’re going to spend their $12 billion infrastructure fund on. They’ve already said that as part of that they’ll spend “$6.8 billion on new transport projects, with a significant portion for roads and rail“.…
Weekly Roundup – 24-Jan-20
Here’s our weekly collection of smaller pieces.
Otahuhu station works
Over the Christmas/New Year period works were undertaken to enable the third platform at Otahuhu, which is being done as part of the City Rail Link. A timelapse of the works is below. Electric Bus MoU
Auckland Transport’s current plans to roll out electric buses with them specifying all new buses be electric by 2025 and all buses electric by 2040 is simply not ambitious enough.…
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