Brisbane Rail Observations
Last week I spent a few days over in Brisbane. I thought I’d put together a few observations about the rail network from while I was there.
It’s not how heavy your rail is, it’s how you use it
Brisbane airport shares a lot of similarities with Auckland in that it sees a similar number of people annually (23 million vs 21 million) and has strong growth forecasts.…
44 Comments If Light Metro is the answer?
As I pointed out last week, making sensible mode decisions is about matching the mode to the demands of the corridor. In Auckland’s case, light rail along Dominion Rd appears to hit the sweet spot between coverage, demand, speed and capacity.…
Weekly Roundup 01-Nov-19
It may have been a short week but there’s still be plenty of transport news. So here’s a bit of a round up of the other stories that have cropped up this week.
First new electric train arrives
The first of our 15 new electric trains arrived last week
AM810 arrived from Spain on via roll-on/roll-off vessel, Hoegh Transporter.…
Making sensible mode decisions
One thing the light-rail debate over the past couple of weeks has re-emphasised is there remains a lot of confusion about the different modes that can be used for rapid transit and also how we should make decisions about what mode to use for specific routes.…
Elevated Lines
This is a guest post by Ella Kay.
I’m currently staying adjacent to one of Berlin’s U-Bahn lines. I wouldn’t usually notice how proximate I was to a train line (apart from being near enough to a station), but couldn’t avoid noticing it here as the rail line is just below eye level of my fourth floor window.…
Flashback Saturday: Airport Rapid Transit isn’t really about the Airport
Every weekend we dig into the archives. This post by Matt was originally published in October 2017.
The idea of providing Airport rail through a short spur from Puhinui is one of those ideas that continues to pop up. It emerged again in an opinion piece the NZ Herald ran just over a week ago (which was oddly a repeat of a piece they ran exactly a month earlier).…
Weekly Roundup 25-Oct-19
It’s certainly been a busy week with all of the light rail news and discussion. So here’s a bit of a round up of the other stories that have cropped up this week.
City Rail Link Demolition
The area around the Mt Eden station is going to start looking very different as demolition has started in advance of the main construction works.…
Fixing the light rail mess
Over the last few days the twists and turns on the light rail saga have felt more like those of a roller coaster than a mass transit system. It all started with an article in the Sunday Star times with leaked documents showing the entire process to deliver light rail was derailed by a six-slide proposal from the NZ Superfund and their Canadian partners.…
Super Fund Mess will delay Light Rail by years
We’ve been incredibly concerned for some time with what is happening with light rail. From a project that was almost ready to start construction, at least on an early works package, it is now mired in delay and uncertainty.
I had initially written this post as a more general outline of my frustration at these delays.…
Last day to support the refreshed City Centre Masterplan
Over the last month the council have been consulting on their ideas for refreshing the City Centre Masterplan (CCMP). Today is the final day for submissions. Submitting is easy and can be done in just a few minutes so jump on in.…
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