8 Big Questions for AT’s Board
This is a guest post by Heidi O’Callahan With climate change upon us, and transport at the heart of Auckland’s climate response, the AT Board must guide everyone in the right direction when it meets tomorrow.
In particular, Board members must hold firm against any business-as-usual recommendations the management team brings before them. …
30 Comments March-17 AT Board meeting
Auckland Transport’s board meet again today and I’ve combed the reports to find what I think are the most interesting bits of information.
Closed Session
The closed session is usually where most of the interesting items reside but this time there doesn’t seem to much too report with most items appearing to be fairly technical issues like procurement strategies and bylaws etc.…
February-2017 AT Board update
Tomorrow is the first Auckland Transport board meeting of 2017 and so as usual, I’ve scoured the board reports for any interesting information. The very first thing I noticed wasn’t even in a report but was the meeting timetable for the year.…
December AT Board update
Next week Auckland Transport hold their final board meeting for the year. Coming hot on the heels of the November one there’s not a lot of new information available in the currently available reports but there are a few important items.…
November 16 AT Board Meeting
Tomorrow the AT board meet for their penultimate meeting of the year and it looks like it will be a big one with a lot on the agenda of their closed session.
Closed Session
I’ve added my thoughts after many of the items.…
No Councillors on AT Board, perhaps not a bad thing
It was revealed yesterday that in a departure from the past six years, there would be none of the Auckland Councillors will be on the Auckland Transport Board of Directors.
Auckland Transport spends more than $1 billion a year running the city’s roads and public transport network, and for the last two terms councillors Christine Fletcher and Mike Lee have been paid directors on the agency’s board.…
September 16 AT Board Meeting
The monthly Auckland Transport Board meeting is on again next week so I’ve take a read through the main reports to pull out the bits that interest me.
Closed Session Agenda
Some of my thoughts about them in italics.
Items for Approval/Decision CRL – PTA & QS Contracts
Road Stopping
Execution of Deed of Lease of Land
Route Protection for Roading Projects
CPO – Surrender of LRT Easements – Britomart was designed so it could also have light rail but our existing network has been too successful so is not a possibilty now
Transport for Future Urban Growth (TFUG) Programme Business Case – Business cases are now needed to support all of the projects needed to support the sprawl enabled as part of the Unitary Plan
AT designations for the Unitary Plan Items for Noting Deep Dive – Rail Infrastructure
MRT/Light Rail Update – I see AT are already using the Mass Rapid Transit name from ATAP
Rail Development
Bus Services March Capacity – A hint about what this is later in the post.…
August 16 AT Board Meeting
Today the Auckland Transport Board have their latest meeting and I’ve taken a look through the reports to pull out the interesting bits.
Firstly and surprisingly the agenda for the closed session is surprisingly bare. The only non-regular item is Tamaki Regeneration Project – funding and governance agreement.…
July AT Board Meeting
Auckland Transport’s latest board meeting is board meeting is on as this post is published and here are the things I found interesting.
Closed Session
The closed session normally contains what appears to be the most interesting items at the meeting.…
End of June AT Board Meeting
Today is the latest Auckland Transport Board meeting and it appears to be a big one with a lot of items to cover. I’ve gone through the documents to highlight the parts I’ve found interesting.
Closed Session
The closed session in particular has a number of interesting topics on the agenda, these are some of them up for approval/decision Matakana Link Road – this is the road that is planned from roughly the end of the Puhoi to Warkworth Motorway across to Matakana Rd so all those using the motorway to get to their holiday homes at Christmas don’t have to travel through the Hill St intersection.…
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