Can we do it? From Julie Ann Genter and the NZ Green Party: Greens to fast-track airport rail for America’s Cup Julie-Anne Genter MP on Wednesday, July 5, 2017 … Continue reading Greens Commit to Airport Rail by 2021
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Transit: It Works – Even For Car Drivers
Be thankful for those taking transit if you drive From the files of Auckland Transport: While a train: And a fully loaded six-car set will take 625 cars … Continue reading Transit: It Works – Even For Car Drivers
East West Link Defeats the One Thing it was meant to serve: INDUSTRY!
East West Link turning to a fast If there was ever an ironic moment East West Link would be it. East West Link has been touted by the … Continue reading East West Link Defeats the One Thing it was meant to serve: INDUSTRY!
Future Urban Land Supply Strategy Refresh Agreed. I Disagreed
FULSS agreed on From Auckland Council: Timings agreed for urbanising greenfield areas The order in which 137,000 future homes can be developed in largely greenfield areas of the north, … Continue reading Future Urban Land Supply Strategy Refresh Agreed. I Disagreed
Planning Committee, July 2017 Decision Digests: FULSS Refreshed
Future Urban Land Supply Strategy adopted From Auckland Council: Committee agrees refreshed strategy for future urban areas Auckland Council’s Planning Committee today agreed the refreshed Future Urban Land Supply … Continue reading Planning Committee, July 2017 Decision Digests: FULSS Refreshed
City Rail Link Website is Online and Full of Information
http://www.cityraillink.co.nz online! Over the weekend the City Rail Link website was launched and full of information on what New Zealand’s largest infrastructure project since Lake Manapouri hydro scheme, the … Continue reading City Rail Link Website is Online and Full of Information
Wynyard Quarter Goes 30km/h. Time For Residential Streets to do the same
Time for safer humane speeds A debate about Te Wero Island being flipped from parking spaces into a park generated this response from Pippa Coom in regard with Wynyard … Continue reading Wynyard Quarter Goes 30km/h. Time For Residential Streets to do the same
Auckland City Centre and Manukau: Twin Cities that Make Up 40% of the Region’s GDP
Interesting titbits Further debate on the America’s Cup defence in 2021 and the Government still refusing to commit to the Airport Line by then revealed some interesting titbits of … Continue reading Auckland City Centre and Manukau: Twin Cities that Make Up 40% of the Region’s GDP
National’s ‘super city’ isn’t working, but not for the reasons National might think
Just adds fuel to the call for Wellington to get out of Auckland’s affairs as I have written here
https://voakl.net/2017/06/12/why-wellington-should-be-removed-out-of-regional-matters-granting-auckland-semi-autonomy/
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The super city is broken, says eminent sociologist Ian Shirley – but it doesn’t need another review. It needs the government to fix the problems we already know about. Recently the NZ Herald published an article by Terry Dunleavy, a member of the National Party, under the headline: National’s ‘su
Source: National’s ‘super city’ isn’t working, but not for the reasons National might think
City Rail Link Limited Formalised to Deliver the City Rail Link
CRL and CRLLs – all go Proof! City Rail Link funding being signed into existence… @phil_goff @stevenljoyce @simonjbridges pic.twitter.com/24BO5Gc2Ks — Patrick Reynolds (@pv_reynolds) June 30, 2017 From … Continue reading City Rail Link Limited Formalised to Deliver the City Rail Link
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