Photo of the Day: Concrete Journey
Lovely day so Max and I went for a short walk down the middle of the CMJ. Here’s a peek at what we found, it was surprisingly pleasant: Stand by for a post with an exciting proposal for forgotten flyover from CAA’s Max Robitzsch…..…
36 Comments Government Transport Hypocrisy
The announcement of funding for a whole pile of new motorway projects in last week’s budget has once again highlighted the hypocrisy the government shows over the funding of transport projects.
First up here are the key parts to the government’s press release last week.…
More on the Budget
This is a more comprehensive post looking at the outcome of yesterday’s budget.
As mentioned briefly yesterday, when it comes to transport the big news of the budget was that government providing $375 million in an interest free loan towards $800 million of additional motorway projects that they had announced last year.…
Comparing the CMJ
This is a graphical representation of just how much land we’ve turned over to out motorway network. The image below is of what effectively constitutes the Central Motorway Junction (CMJ). This is 49 hectares in size. It kind of reminds me of some sort of alien creature latched on to the southern end of the city sucking out its life.…
Disney’s 1950’s vision for roads
I’ve posted this before but following on from my post this morning, this video from Disney in 1958 shows the kind of vision that has dominated our transport and land use planning for such a long time.
http://youtu.be/TwA7c_rNbJE
Some things mentioned in here have actually come true or seem close to doing so while others I’m very thankful that haven’t.…
Just another $500 million
The herald this week ran a large piece on the projects under construction as part of the Western Ring Route (WRR) including aerial photos of the progress. The projects covered were: The Waterview Connection breaking it down by: The Southern end
The Northern end
The Waterview interchange The raising and widening of the Northwestern Motorway Causeway
The Te Atatu Interchange
The St Lukes Interchange
The Lincoln Rd Interchange But the thing that got me about the article was this part
The 4.8km link between the Southwestern and Northwestern Motorways will fill the last-but-one gap in the 48km Western Ring Route.…
Improving K’Rd
Below is a plan developed by the Waitemata Local Board working closely with the Karangahape Rd Business Association to improve the area: This is their accompanying text:
Over the next few decades the Karangahape Road area will experience a dramatic increase in growth, especially in the wake of the completion of the Central Rail Link.…
Wanted: An All Mode Transport Agency
This morning NZTA reported some run-of-the-mill snarfus on their big Auckland motorway system via Twitter, below Matt took the opportunity to suggest they improve their communications to include more forms of transport available in Auckland, in particular the Rail network that they do help fund to operate [but weirdly are barred from funding new capital works on the rail network- even ones that would lower the net operating cost].…
Lincoln Rd Interchange 2 years late
Pretty much anyone who has driven along State Highway 16 in recent times would have noticed the massive amount of construction going on with almost half of the entire motorway affected by works. Once the St Lukes interchange upgrade gets under way soon then I believe every single trip along the motorway will be affected by works in some way.…
New Waikato and Bay of Plenty motorways confirmed
The NZ Herald reports:
This afternoon Transport Minister Gerry Brownlee is expected to announce funding for two transformational roading projects. A $4 billion four lane motorway between Cambridge and Taupo, extending the Waikato Expressway a further 100 kilometres to the south and an $8 billion 50km motorway from Cambridge to Tauranga which includes a 14km road tunnel.…
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