CBD Rail Tunnel: crunch time
Preliminary findings of the business case for the CBD Rail Tunnel should be released within the next month. Of course we all have our fingers crossed that the number-crunching confirms most people’s strong belief that the project is cost-effective and well worth the rather significant $1.5 billion pricetag.…
13 Comments The need for cost-effectiveness in infrastructure investment
Finance Minister (and Infrastructure Minister) Bill English yesterday gave quite an interesting speech to representative of Local Government New Zealand (LGNZ). The topic of the speech related to the need for tax-payers and rate-payers to get the best return possible on infrastructure investment.…
Flat Bush: very expensive sprawl
I have written a number of posts about Flat Bush in the past. For those that don’t know, Flat Bush is a large greenfields development in the southeast corner of Auckland. Over the next 20 or so years around 40,000 people are expected to call Flat Bush home.…
How should we fund transport?
The excellent Captain Transit blog has a very interesting post on the fundamental question that all those interested in transport need to have a good think about – what is the best way to fund improvements, maintenance and upgrades to transport infrastructure.…
Roughan on CBD Tunnel
NZ Herald columnist John Roughan has written an interesting, if rather uninformed (he thinks we don’t yet have a Grafton Station) article on the CBD rail tunnel – and in particular on the support that it is getting among both local/regional politicians and also from Greens and Labour party politicians.…
France’s transport plan
The French government has just released for consultation its visionary transportation plan for the next 20-30 years, and while I can’t really understand French, if you are able to read French then it will probably make for quite an interesting read.…
NZTA’s strange public transport “problem”
Thanks to the good old Official Information Act, I have managed to get hold of some interesting information from NZTA on public transport, and in particular a full overview of what they called the “Public Transport Effectiveness Project”. There’s a huge amount of information in this document, so I will probably take a few blog posts to work through it all.…
Why roads should help pay for rail
In the ongoing process that is the development of the Auckland CBD rail tunnel project, there’s a giant “elephant in the room” that nobody seems particularly willing to touch – I’m guessing because nobody really has much of a clue about what the answer would be.…
Public Transport Lecture
I’m not sure if I will be able to make this, but it certainly looks interesting: If you do make it, it’d be great to hear how this went.…
Auckland Transit Blues
An interesting article on Auckland’s public transport system in the Canadian newspaper –The Globe and Mail:
Auckland transit blues
Toronto’s main business lobby, the Board of Trade, recently called for the outsourcing of public transit services to private companies, part of their free advice to the next mayor on reducing the city’s deficit.…
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