What’s happening with light rail?
In recent months it has been immensely frustrating how little progress seems to have been made on the City Centre to Mangere project. Large and complicated projects always take time of course, but Auckland Transport had been working on it for years so it’s hardly like NZTA, who are now leading the project, needed to start from scratch.…
291 Comments A history of the light rail project
There have been some slightly strange conspiracy theories floating around recently about how the City Centre to Mangere light rail project came into existence. I looked at the history recently but thought it would be worthwhile taking a more detailed walk through how the project has evolved over time, what key decisions were made, by who and when.…
Light Rail: How we got here
Over the last few weeks we’ve seen numerous articles and opinion pieces about Light Rail and the airport. A common and incorrect theme amongst many of them has been the suggestion that the choice to use light rail was a political one and that it’s a vanity project that we can choose not to do or do something different.…
Free Light Rail in the city?
The Herald ran a couple of interesting pieces on the weekend looking at Queen St and its future. The main piece is relatively good – although annoyingly gets my name wrong – but importantly shows the growing support for improving Queen St from some of our politicians.…
Do we need a light rail early works programme
The government have been strong supporters of light rail in Auckland, it’s even built into their support agreement with the Greens where it notes:
Work will begin on light rail from the city to the airport in Auckland
The NZTA have been tasked with building it but they’re only in the early stages of process and given the size and complexity of a project like light rail, it could take years before any construction agreement is signed.…
Light Rail & Pt Chevalier
The planning for light rail to the North West is only in its early stages and many details and decisions have yet to be decided. One of the most important decisions will be the location of stations and how they interact with their local environment – e.g.…
NW Light Rail – use Gt North Rd or Motorway
On Saturday, the Herald raised the issue of how light rail to the Northwest will reach the city.
The Weekend Herald can reveal that the suburbs of Pt Chevalier, Grey Lynn, Arch Hill and Karangahape Rd are on the route being considered by the NZ Transport Agency.…
Northwest Light Rail in the news
The Herald have been running a number of articles on Light Rail this week
Light Rail to Kumeu
On Tuesday, it was presented with some surprise that light rail will eventually reach Kumeu
Major changes are on the way for Auckland’s $6 billion light rail programme, including extending the modern-day version of trams to Kumeu in the northwest.…
Guest Post: Light Rail for the Isthmus… with room for bikes!
This is a Guest Post from Bike Auckland’s Max. It first appeared here and is reproduced with permission.
Light Rail (LRT) across the isthmus and to the airport is a hot topic, and Bike Auckland supported it in principle in our recent submission on the Regional Long Term Plan… with one clear caveat:
Bikeways must be included in LRT projects, both to and along the future routes.…
AA Members Support Light Rail
Auckland Transport has collated feedback on the draft Regional Land Transport Plan from the two weeks of consultation that took place recently. More than 18,000 submissions were received, which is pretty impressive for a two week consultation period. Generally it seems there was good support for the RLTP in the feedback, a stark contrast to the disastrous earlier version of the RLTP the AT Board rejected in January.…
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