NZTA/AT back down on East West Link – for now
An intriguing joint media release from NZTA and Auckland Transport emerged on Monday afternoon – highlighting a different approach to community consultation from the two transport agencies on the East West Link project going forward:
The NZ Transport Agency and Auckland Transport are asking community groups to help the two organisations find the best transport solutions to better link an economically growing south-west and south-east Auckland.…
32 Comments Basin Bridge independent review
Last week we saw some images of what the proposed flyover around the basin reserve might look like. They came about as the proposal is currently going through the fast tracked Board of Inquiry (BOI) process and the board required the NZTA to provide them.…
Photo of the day – Basin Bridge
As part of the EPA process, the NZTA have released some new images showing before and afters of the ugly flyover they are proposing called the Basin Bridge.…
Auctioning Alice for Charity
Congratulations to the NZTA for coming up with a really unique way to raise some money for charity.
Waterview Xmas gift for Philippines typhoon victims
The giant tunnel boring machine called Alice at Auckland’s Waterview Connection motorway project is at the centre of the workers’ initiative to raise money for the victims of Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines.…
Are the NZTA really helping us to “Drive Social”?
Earlier this year, the NZTA launched a new social media campaign, called Drive Social. There are some major issues with the campaign, which would have been oh-so-easy to solve.
The NZTA gets frustratingly close to talking about other road users besides car drivers – saying the campaign was centred around the question, “If we stopped thinking ‘cars’ and started thinking ‘people’, would it change the way we drive?”.…
Government motorway package being fast-tracked
A paper to the Auckland Transport board shows just how easy it is for our existing transport plans to be changed to accommodate new motorway projects. It comes about due to the governments announcement that they were fast tracking a series of roading projects around Auckland.…
Motorway closed due to crash
A truck has crashed on the southern motorway southbound and is already causing a lot of congestion on the motorway. If at all possible I’d recommend catching the train home
Crash closes Southern Motorway southbound
All three southbound lanes of Auckland’s Southern Motorway (State Highway 1) at Greenlane have been closed after a concrete truck crashed just south of the Greenlane interchange.…
Others starting to notice that young people are driving less
We have talked quite a bit about how we are in the middle of a generational shift when it comes to transport with the most notable change being that younger people are choosing to drive less than older generations. It seems the mainstream media are finally starting to catch up to this fact with the herald yesterday reporting:
More Kiwi seniors are driving than 10 years ago, while more younger people are opting to be car-free.…
Waterview Connection Open Day
The NZTA has been holding an open day on the Waterview Connection to give the public a chance to view the works that have been going on and see Alice – the massive tunnel boring machine that will soon start digging the tunnels.…
Your chance to see Alice
We’ve been keeping an eye on what is happening at Waterview and the construction of Alice the massive TBM that will be used to drill the tunnels. Tunnelling itself is due to start next month and so before that begins, the NZTA are going to be holding an open day so the public can have a look at the project and the machine.…
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