Puhinui upgrade confirmed
Some great news on Friday with Transport Minister Phil Twyford and Mayor Phil Goff officially kicking off the upgrade to the Puhinui station. When completed it will become one of Auckland’s most important interchange stations, allowing for frequent, simple and reliable congestion free connections to the airport.…
182 Comments Let’s Get Welly Moving released
Yesterday the Government released a package of investments to improve Wellington’s transport system over the next 20 years – known as the “Let’s Get Welly Moving” project.
Phil Twyford said our Government is tackling the long-term issues and this 20 year plan is a step change for transport in Wellington.…
Implication and Opportunity: NorthPort and the AKL rail network.
With the Upper North Island Supply Chain Study (UNISCS) starting to show results, I thought it would be a good time to examine some of the possible implications; constraints and opportunities, for the Auckland rail network, of an increased freight task to and from Northland.…
Fare Reduction Options
Public transport fares have been a hot topic this year following Auckland Transports announcement in January that they were putting them up again to cover increasing costs, in part because more people are using PT. Increasing fares at the same time as we want a lot more people to use public transport isn’t a great strategy and in March, our friends at Generation Zero called for AT to freeze fares and for the NZTA to review their farebox policy.…
May-19 AT Board meeting
Thursday is the next Auckland Transport board meeting and here are some of the highlights from the papers going to the board.
Closed Agenda
There is surprisingly little on the closed agenda for this meeting with the only things of real interest being: Enterprise Asset Management Business Case
Third Party Major Project Support and Mobilisation
Active Modes update I wonder if the active modes update will just say “we haven’t done anything on active for years” given ATs abysmal record on this of late.…
Canberra’s new Light Rail
Canberra is not a city we would normally look to for transport but that’s changing following the opening of their first modern light rail line just over two weeks ago. It’s an interesting and useful example because Canberra is not large city (only around 400k people), nor one known for its density or public transport (as of the begining of the year Canberra’s network was carrying fewer than 20m trips).…
CRL extra funding approved
Good news yesterday with the council approving $500 million to cover their share of the extra City Rail Link costs. The decision came after a marathon meeting where Councillors started on the topic at 9:30am and didn’t finally make the decision till just after 4pm.…
Council to decide on extra CRL funding
Just before Easter we learnt that the City Rail Link was to be around $1 billion more expensive than previously thought thanks to higher than expected construction cost inflation, additional contingency funds, future proofing for 9-car trains and some higher non-direct costs.…
Fewer cars in the city but too many in bus lanes
Auckland’s city centre is currently seeing unprecedented levels of construction and that also means unprecedented levels of disruption and orange cones. When the current building boom eventually ends, the city will be a fundamentally different place from what it was even just a few years ago.…
CRL a step closer but more expensive
The City Rail Link, the country’s biggest transport project, just got $1 billion bigger but also few steps closer to reality as part of three “significant announcements” made yesterday. Revised Costs
The biggest news is that the project is now expected to cost $4.419 billion, up from the $3.4 billion figure that they say was last estimated in 2014.…
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