Airport Wakes up to Importance of PT
After quite some time when nobody was really sure what the Auckland Airport company thought about the idea of a rail link from there to the CBD, it does indeed appear as though the airport has finally realised that this might indeed be a good idea.…
12 Comments Airport Rail
I must say I’m a tad surprised I haven’t dedicated a post to the topic of Airport Rail before, and it is certainly worth a bit of analysis and discussion. The Auckland Regional Transport Committee considers rail to the airport to be the equal sixth highest priority transport project in the region – which isn’t that high, but it’s certainly something that is likely to “go into the mix” some time in the near future.…
CBD Rail Tunnel – yay or nay?
I must admit I am somewhat confused at the moment with regards to the outcomes of the Regional Transport Committee’s seemingly very important meeting earlier this week. As I detailed in yesterday’s post the future of Auckland’s rail system over the next 30 years is being discussed quite vigorously at the moment, including all the kinds of lines that I go on about over and over again in various posts on this blog.…
A peek into Auckland’s PT future
The Auckland Regional Council’s Regional Transport Committee has spent most of this year working on developing the 2010 Regional Land Transport Strategy. That strategy now has a full draft, which along with some background information on the analysis of what future public transport projects make the most economic sense, certainly does make for interesting reading.…
What $2.2 billion can buy
Let’s just say Auckland had $2.2 billion to spend on transportation. This money is from a crown grant rather than from petrol taxes, so there’s no real bias from the school of thought that petrol tax money should be spent on roads.…
Auckland’s Rail Future – Part 2
To continue on from my previous post, we now take a step into a bit of the unknown. I will probably continue to change my mind about the best way for Auckland’s rail future versus the most realistic way to actually get change in my head for a fair while yet, but I guess this is a bit of a mixture: somewhat ideal, somewhat realistic.…
Auckland’s Rail Future – Part 1
OK I have to say that I do love doing this, pontificating about what Auckland’s railway system might look like in the future. A few posts back I wrote in quite detail why I thought Auckland’s railway system has a bright future, and how that would absolutely result in a need for future expansion of the system, particularly through building the CBD Rail Loop.…
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