Motorway Traffic Volumes
Along with keeping a close eye on public transport patronage, I also like track what is happening with traffic volumes. The NZTA release traffic volumes for a handful of sites on the state highway network on a monthly basis and release a much larger number of sites on an annual basis.…
30 Comments Learner Licence Tests
The NZTA appear to be quite happy as the percentage of people passing the learner theory tests is increasing. Here is their press release:
The NZ Transport Agency is congratulating young drivers and their parents for working hard to learn the road code as pass rates for New Zealand’s computerised learner driver licence theory test have hit 70% for the first time, while serious crashes involving teenage drivers drop to record lows.…
Transport Funding in Auckland
We spend a huge amount of money on transport each year and it can often be difficult to see exactly where all of that money is going. Thankfully the NZTA have started to become much more proactive in what information they release to the public and have actually been publishing the details online.…
SH16 bus lanes closing next week
This was signalled a few months ago but the NZTA has today announced that more of the bus shoulder lanes alongside SH16 will start closing from next week as part of the upgrade works. Here is the NZTA press release.
People can expect significant changes travelling on Auckland’s Northwestern Motorway (State Highway16) from this Monday (16 September) as part of the NZ Transport Agency’s long term development of the Western Ring Route.…
Puhoi to Wellsford EPA documents
Yesterday the NZTA released the documents they are using to apply for consent for the Puhoi to Warkworth motorway. Here is the press release:
The NZ Transport Agency says details of its application and supporting documents to construct the Pūhoi to Warkworth section of the Ara Tūhono – Pūhoi to Wellsford Road of National Significance are now available on-line at www.nzta.govt.nz/puhoi-to-warkworth-application…
Toll road manual kiosks to go coin only
The NZTA has announced that it is changing the machines that some people use to pay for the Orewa to Puhoi toll road to accept coins only citing reliability issues with the note and card options.
The NZ Transport Agency says it is converting the Northern Gateway Toll Road manual kiosks at the Dairy Flats service centre to accept payment by coin-only in order to reduce the risk of kiosk breakdowns and shorten queuing times at busy periods.…
A Good Road
‘Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful’
-William Morris 1880
Because we argue here at ATB that it is time to rebalance our spending priorities away from always assuming that road building is the best or only answer to our transport problems, especially for those caused by too much traffic in cities, we often get accused of all sorts of emotional things like being ‘car haters’.…
Old Mangere Bridge replacement to be wider
Regular readers will likely know about the plans by the NZTA to replace the old Mangere Bridge which is now more almost 100 years old and requires a lot of maintenance to keep open. One of the massive advantages of the old bridge is that being a former road it is quite wide and it has become a very popular spot for walking, cycling and fishing with the width allowing everyone to happily do these activities without impacting on others.…
NZTA makes positive changes to economic assessment criteria
Many of the debates on this blog and within in the wider community about the merits of projects, or lack of them, end up coming down to down to questions of economics. But as Peter Nunns pointed out a few weeks ago in his excellent guest post, most people aren’t aware of the specific aspects that go into the economic assessment
Readers of this blog will be familiar with the notion of the benefit cost ratio (BCR), a figure that compares the forecasted benefits of a project with the financial cost of building it.…
The realities of Puhoi to Wellsford
The sheer stupidity of the Puhoi to Wellsford project might be starting to hit home for some of the residents of Warkworth and surrounding areas as the exact route of the motorway starts to be understood.
Warkworth residents hoping for a link from the Woodcocks Rd industrial area to the new motorway proposed from Puhoi appear to have had their hopes dashed.…
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