CRL back in the spotlight
After a few months of relative silence, discussion about the City Rail Link has been sparked again by a handful of articles.
The most interesting item is that the Mayor has had PWC look into the criteria set by the government to enable a start earlier than the government’s suggestion of 2020 after what would effectively be another review in 2017.…
66 Comments More coverage of Congestion Free Network
Getting the information out about out Congestion Free Network has continued once again this morning with Patrick appearing on TVNZ’s Good Morning show to talk about it. What’s different about this one is that TVNZ got Len Brown to respond to our proposal and it seems he seems to be largely supportive of it.…
Understanding changing travel trends
At a national level we charging ahead with a few hand picked mega roading projects that will tie up our transport spending for the next decade or so. Unfortunately it doesn’t get much better locally with billions upon billions of dollars of ratepayer and taxpayer money proposed to go into transport projects over the coming decades, pretty much all of them relying upon significant traffic growth to be justified.…
Radio NZ Insight into relationship between Council and Govt
For those interested in local body politics, there was a great piece from Radio NZ’s Insight programme looking at the relationship between the Auckland Council and the Government. It is a bit long but at 30 minutes but well worth a listen.…
Govt sponsored report backs the Auckland Plan
Interesting news out this morning of a report, paid for by the government and Auckland into the economic competitiveness of the NZ economy. While the whole report hasn’t been released yet, information has emerged about a chapter in it relating to Auckland.…
From a fly on the wall, deep inside the NZTA
Its scary just how accurate this sounds, hopefully the fly doesn’t get discovered and we get some more insights from it.
Great work Radio NZ (this is from last Sunday).…
An “Insight” into the RoNS package
A fairly lengthy and detailed documentary on the Roads of National Significance projects was aired on Radio NZ this morning. You can listen to the 27 minute long documentary here.
Quite a few comments in this previous thread relate to the documentary – and raise some important points I think: Most of the non-political commentators (NZCID, AA, Road Transport Forum etc.)…
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