How to fund the CFN and save $14 billion
On the topic of the Congestion Free Network, we frequently get asked what we would do about the roading network, and what projects we would change to go along with our proposal. We have said before that we think there is still a need for some roading projects during the same time period, and that we think there will be plenty of budget (over and above what we are spending on the CFN) to allow for the best parts of the roading network to be built.…
49 Comments Lessons from Salt Lake City
A little video from the US showing that even in what is considered the most conservative state in the US, when you present a real vision for Public Transport that people will vote for it and even agree to higher taxes to enable it to happen sooner (not that we are suggesting that with the Congestion Free Network).…
Auckland’s Transport Future Public Meeting
The Campaign For Better Transport is getting into the spirit of what has so far been a lacklustre run up to the Auckland Council elections. They’ve lined up the Mayoral candidates to put forward their transport vision at a public meeting next week: Auckland’s Transport Future
Wednesday 11th September, 6:45pm
Pioneer Women’s and Ellen Melville Hall, Freyberg Square, Auckland Central Confirmed candidates include current Mayor Len Brown, John Palino, John Minto, Paul Duffy and Rev Uesifili Unasa.…
GiveALittle – CFN Edition
Our GiveALittle campaign to cover server hosting costs was a huge success.
As a result, we’ve moved our hosting on to a more grunty server with more memory, and we have enough in the bank to cover hosting costs for at least the next twelve months.…
Len Brown and the Congestion Free Network
Last night Patrick and I joined some of the team from Generation Zero to have a chat to Len Brown about the Congestion Free Network. During the conversation we discussed all sorts of different aspects of the proposal like the need to focus on an overall vision rather than the individual projects – currently it seems much more like we are building projects that sound good and then fitting a vision around that.…
Learning from San Francisco
I was looking at the herald this morning and I came across this piece titled Troubled bridge over San Fran waters by the Herald on Sunday sports editor who is currently in San Francisco covering the America’s Cup.
Take a look at the Auckland Harbour Bridge.…
More coverage of Congestion Free Network
Getting the information out about out Congestion Free Network has continued once again this morning with Patrick appearing on TVNZ’s Good Morning show to talk about it. What’s different about this one is that TVNZ got Len Brown to respond to our proposal and it seems he seems to be largely supportive of it.…
CFN presentation to the Transport Committee
Yesterday, we presented our Congestion Free network proposal to the council’s Transport Committee. Unfortunately it wasn’t filmed, but here is our presentation (3.5MB). Much of it readers will have seen before, so don’t be surprised if you have seen most of it already.…
The CFN: Better Late Than Never
The extraordinary thing about our proposal for concerted action to build a coherent and high standard Rapid Transit Network for Auckland is not that it’s popular, but that it isn’t already there. It is hardly a revolutionary idea that our congestion problem is simply the result of us having little real choice but to drive in Auckland because all we’ve built since the 1960s is more roads.…
The Congestion Free Network on Campbell Live
Last night, Campbell Live dedicated their entire show to looking at transport, with a large focus on what is happening in Auckland. Even better is that they produced an entire segment looking at our Congestion Free Network proposal.
The first two segments are on the same video.…
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