Avoiding “gridlock”
There’s been a lot of discussion after Auckland’s roading network completely collapsed on Thursday due to a crash on the Newmarket viaduct, which caused huge delays.
More than two hours later, traffic on almost all of the city’s arterial routes was gridlocked, with buses backed up in city streets and motorists reporting speeds of less than 10km/h.…
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It sounds like NZTA, ARTA and other parties have finally woken up to the fact that simply saying “don’t travel this weekend” is not a particularly acceptable response to the closure of the Newmarket Viaduct’s southbound lanes for 36 hours on Saturday and Sunday – and have instead finally put some thought into encouraging people to travel via other means.…
Newmarket viaduct replacement: worth the $215m?
In the hectic preparations for my upcoming holiday (leaving this Friday) I managed to miss both yesterday’s walk along the newly completed Manukau Connection and today’s walk across the new section of the Newmarket Viaduct. In general I’m supportive of the Manukau Connection project, as hopefully it will remove a lot of traffic from Manukau City Centre – enabling roads like Wiri Station Road to be humanised, narrowed and (over time) the whole area to become something more than a giant carpark (full of moving and non-moving vehicles).…
Newmarket Viaduct: a symptom of our auto-dependency?
I talk about the issue of Auckland’s car dependency quite a lot on this blog. About how over the past 60 years our very unbalanced transport policy has led to a situation where the city has grown, developed and become very much dependent upon being able to drive anywhere, any time.…
Newmarket Viaduct Closure – should PT be free for the weekend?
NZTA have announced that over the Father’s Day weekend at the start of September the Newmarket Viaduct will need to close for around 36 hours. This closure sounds essential in undertaking the last bits of “tying in” the existing roadway with the first half of the new viaduct, which has now been constructed.…
Motorway network nearing completion
A couple of media releases on motorway projects today show that good progress is being made on two large projects: the SH20-SH1 Manukau Connection and the SH1 Newmarket Viaduct replacement project. Looking at the Manukau Connection Project first, the following part of the media release is quite interesting:
The $220M Manukau Extension motorway project is scheduled to be opened progressively between August and December.…
The Motorway Building Bonanza!
It sounds like a circus doesn’t it? Roll up! Roll up! To the motorway building bonanza! I do generally find myself losing count when I try to put together all the motorway building projects that are going on around Auckland at the moment.…
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