Regional Land Transport Plan throws up a few surprises
Today the Auckland Transport board are meeting, I’ve already covered the board report and in this post I’ll look at the draft Regional Land Transport Plan (RLTP). As a brief description the RLTP Sets out the strategic direction for transport in Auckland including how AT proposes to give effect to the transport components of the Auckland Plan and AT’s strategic themes within the fiscal constraints of the funding provided in the LTP.…
35 Comments RLTP Submission, A Bouquet and a Brickbat
One of the recent plans that people have been able to submit on is the Regional Land Transport Planwhich is put out by Auckland Transport. They have published a the minutes of the hearings that were held, naturally there were a wide variety of submissions that cover all sorts of topics but I thought I would just post a couple that I found really interesting from different ends of the spectrum.…
LTP and RLTP submission
Here are the key points from my submissions to Auckland Council’s Long Term Plan (LTP) and Auckland Transport’s Regional Land Transport Programme (RLTP). The LTP sets out everything that Auckland Council intends to spend its money on over the next decade – including what it will spend on transport matters.…
Get your Submissions in
An important message from the Campaign for Better Transport because there is only one week to go.
There are a plethora of plans out at the moment for public consultation, but there is one in particular that better transport advocates need to submit on in particular.…
Regional Land Transport Programme out for consultation
Auckland Transport’s first Regional Land Transport Programme (RLTP) has been released for consultation (not to be confused with Auckland Council’s Long Term Plan) – with submissions due by 4pm on Friday 23 March 2012. You can read the draft RLTP as a PDF document here.…
Steven Joyce’s revenge? Big changes proposed to LTMA.
The government has today announced some pretty big changes are being proposed to the Land Transport Management Act (LTMA). This is a pretty vital piece of legislation, forming the legislative framework around which most of the country’s transport plans, policies, rules and guidelines are created.…
Transport in the next five years
Having finally got the 30 year Regional Land Transport Strategy completed, it’s important to look at the question “where to next?” This is particularly important to consider when you realise how the whole management of transport in Auckland is going to be revolutionised in the next few months, with the creation of the Auckland Transport CCO.…
New Public Transport cut by $63m
Well I’ve done a bit more fisking of the figures in terms of focusing on what the National Land Transport Programme – announced today – has done to the amount of funding available from NZTA for public transport infrastructure projects in Auckland over the next three years.…
More on the RLTP
Yesterday I looked at the Regional Land Transport Programme in quite a bit of detail, so I’m not going to rehash everything I said in that post obviously. The main point I came to was that ARTA had done their best to ignore the stupid changes to the government policy statement for transport – and good on them for doing so.…
Regional Land Transport Programme Released
The ARTA 2009/10 to 2011/12 Regional Land Transport Programme has been released. This particular document is the kind of “end product” when it comes to transport planning and funding in the Auckland Region, and talks about all the transport projects that will take place in the next three years.…
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