2016 – A Year in Review Part 3 – Roads
This is Part 3 of our series wrapping up the year and in this post I’m looking at Roads. You can also see: Part 1 on public transport
Part 2 on Walking and Cycling Here’s my summary
ATAP
The Auckland Transport Alignment Project (ATAP) has been a huge feature of the year and while not strictly road related, I’ll include it in this summary.…
44 Comments 2016 – A Year in Review Part 1 – PT
As the year rapidly draws to a close it’s a good time to look back at all the important events that have occurred. Because there’s so much to cover, I’ll be splitting this up over multiple posts, starting with public transport.…
ATAP Indicative Projects Costings
In September the Final Report of the Auckland Transport Alignment Project (ATAP) was released and we’ve talked about it a lot since then. It focused on strategic recommendations following multiple rounds of modelling of packages of projects and with & without Smarter Pricing.…
AA’s ATAP Funding Survey
The AA have released the results of a survey of their members about how to pay Auckland’s future transport needs, and we agree with their position.
The Auckland Transport Alignment Project (ATAP) looked at Auckland’s future transport needs and found that for the first decade alone, around $23.7 billion is needed but that based on current trends and assumptions, only $19.8 billion would be spent.…
Funding Strategic Transport
With the release of the Auckland Transport Alignment Project (ATAP) it once again got me thinking about a funding anomaly in our transport system, the Rapid Transit Network (RTN), or the Proposed Future Strategic Public Transport Network as ATAP calls it.…
Voting for Transit
While much of the world is in a state of disbelief over the result of the US election, there was some positive news to come out of it too. In many areas a range of transit projects/initiatives were also ballot. In total, there were 48 local or statewide measures and 33 (69%) passed, even though many required increases in taxes to pay for them and some required 2/3rds of voter support.…
Should we spend more on infrastructure… or less?
The Auckland Transport Alignment Project (ATAP) report, which was released last week, identified the need to spend more money on transport infrastructure in Auckland. ATAP estimates that we need to spend $24 billion on new transport infrastructure over the next decade, around $4 billion of which would not be funded by current transport budgets.…
ATAP: The right answers to the wrong questions
So the long-awaited final report of the Auckland Transport Alignment Project (ATAP) was released yesterday. This is the third “deliverable” from the project, building on the “Foundation Report” in February and the “Interim Report” in June. The Final Report isn’t dramatically different from what was reported in June, although there’s a lot more detail – particularly around the timing of major projects.…
ATAP
Full post is to come tomorrow morning – just a few links and key diagrams for now.
The Final Report – Recommended Strategic Approach
Supporting Information
Questions and Answers
The “indicative package”:…
City Rail Link and ATAP imminent
This week is shaping up to be an important one for the future of transport in Auckland with updates expected on both the government’s funding of the City Rail Link and the final Auckland Transport Alignment Project report due to be publicly released.…
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