Kapiti Expressway’s BCR is actually 0.2!
A great scoop by Campbell Live tonight showing that the cost-benefit ratio of the Mackays to Peka Peka part of the Kapiti Expressway – a key section of the Wellington Northern Corridor RoNS project – has been recalculated recently as being 0.2.…
81 Comments Reviewing NZTA Projects
One of the criticisms that we have had of the NZTA in recent years has been that there they don’t appear to go back and check if the what they predicted to happen turned out to be accurate. This is pretty important as they are spending huge amounts of our money on various projects and as we showed last week, it appears that sometimes they aren’t even using real data in their business cases. …
Our driving trends aren’t unique
Following on from my post this morning around the Harbour bridge, I was pointed to this article from the US on trends on the amount of vehicle miles travelled each year. The post starts as
It’s now common knowledge that annual changes in the volume of driving no longer follow the old patterns.…
NEWSFLASH: Do we need another Waitemata Harbour Crossing?
Here at the Auckland Transport Blog we have finally found a road project that seems more unwarranted than either Puhoi-to-Wellsford or Transmission Gully. This is a road project that costs more than both of those two premature white elephants combined. Yes, we’re talking about the “Additional Waitemata Harbour Crossing Project“.…
P2W timesavings just don’t stack up
From time to time I like to check on the written questions asked by MPs to ministers, these questions are important as the ministers are required to answer them and the results are stored on record so they can be a great way of finding out information.…
The “North Harbour Strategic Study”
Another giant document that Matt L got in an OIA request to NZTA and passed onto me is all about what’s called the “North Harbour Strategic Study”. Basically it just seems like NZTA trying to find a way to justify spending a huge chunk of money on building more motorways, but before we get onto that let’s take a look more broadly.…
The NZTA steps up its game with pedestrian bridges
If there is one thing I feel that we should be praising the NZTA for in recent years it is that they have really upped their game when it comes to the design of infrastructure and probably the most noticeable of these has been in the various foot bridges they have erected on some of the motorway projects.…
Northwest Busway Plans
Last week there was a report and presentation to the Council’s transport committee about the Northwest Busway, asking that a ‘staged approach’ to implementing busway be supported. The minutes confirm that the Committee did support this approach. It seems the main driver of the recent support for this project is the realisation that the northwest is planned to grow significantly over the next 30 years – with this fact being well illustrated in the graph below: The numbers are pretty massive, but that’s not too surprising when you look at the area in question and the changes proposed for it by the Auckland Plan’s development strategy:
One agency that seems somewhat far from impressed with the relatively recent surge of support for this project is NZTA.…
An RPTP Storm in a Tea Cup
It seems that every plan has something that gets people up in arms but that in the end turns out to be a bit of a storm in a teacup and for the draft Regional Public Transport Plan it seems that issue has been found.…
Wellington St onramp just about ready
NZTA’s press release yesterday notes that the reopening of the Wellington Street onramp is just about ready to go:
Final work is underway to have the Wellington Street on-ramp in central Auckland ready to re-open for traffic joining the northbound lanes of State Highway 1 motorway next Monday morning (8 October).…
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