Getting the rail network up to speed
The scale of delays on our rail network was highlighted by the Herald last week – and while it’s bad, it also highlights the huge opportunity for getting our rail network back up to speed.
KiwiRail has promised to cut delays on Auckland trains, amid growing concerns about the readiness of the city’s failing rail network for the opening of the $5.5 billion City Rail Link in 2026.…
47 Comments City Centre Rebuild: How Soon Is Now?
Patrick Reynolds is deputy chair of the City Centre Advisory Panel and a director of Greater Auckland
There is ongoing angst about construction disruption in the city centre. Fair enough: it’s very tough, CRL and other construction has been going on for a very long time.…
KiwiRail at Council’s Transport & Infrastructure Committee
Last week at the Council’s Transport and Infrastructure Committee, Kiwirail gave an update about the state of the network and the work they’re doing to get it ready for the opening of the City Rail Link. There were a few aspects that stood out, so we’ve pulled them together in this post.…
CRL: Over 100 years in the making
By the time the City Rail Link opens in 2022/23, the idea will have been over 100 years in the making, in one form or another. I thought I’d look at how the project and concept have evolved over that century.…
Government CRL announcement imminent?
Auckland could be about to get a late Christmas present. It’s appearing more and more likely that the government will agree to start to the City Rail Link in 2018, two years earlier than the 2020 date they set back in 2013 when they first agreed to the project.…
No White Elephants to be found here
There was a quite angry editorial in the Sunday Star Times (SST) yesterday about Len Brown’s mayoralty which included this stunningly bad comment on transport.
He did manage to slip through one win, the city rail link, just before details of his sex antics became public.…
CRL now consented & Aotea images
The CRL took another step forward yesterday following the good news the Environment court has dismissed the final appeal against the designation for the City Rail Link. That means for the first time since the 1920’s when the first variations of the project were proposed it has an actual designation.…
A delay to the CRL?
The Herald reported yesterday that an increasing number of councillors are thinking of voting to delay the City Rail Link to 2020.
The $2.4 billion City Rail Link could be deferred until 2020 because of mounting concerns by councillors about its impact on rates, debt and big cuts to community services.…
Rail vs Driverless Cars
A few days ago there were two major transport stories, the first was about a new record for rail patronage and the other topic was about the government looking to make it easier for driverless cars to be on New Zealands roads.…
CRL design being progressed
Auckland Transport have said that they are focusing efforts to design the northern end of the CRL from Wyndham St to Britomart.
Design of the Britomart end of the City Rail Link is being progressed with Auckland Transport asking the construction industry to register its interest in the work.…
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