17 new battery/electric EMU’s to be decided This just in from the Mayor Phil Goff: COUNCIL DECISION PENDING ON NEW ELECTRIC TRAINS Auckland Council will make a decision next … Continue reading Auckland Council to Decide on New Trains to Cater for Southern Auckland Growth
Rail surges Government under performs It is that time again when Greater Auckland release the monthly transit figures for Auckland. I am continued to be impressed with the growth … Continue reading Rail Up 20.6%. To Exceed Government Target By Next Month (August)
Throw the case out and start again? As the East West Link Board of Inquiry continues it seems a rather piece of damning revelation has come out from the … Continue reading NZTA Caught Telling Porkies over the East West Link? NZTA Used Inaccurate Visuals In Consent for EWL
Turn Queen Street into a true Golden Mile Given the amount of times Queen Street is closed for parades and protests without City traffic going to hell in a … Continue reading What is Stopping Queen Street Becoming a World Class Pedestrian Mall? Nothing but NIMBYs and Politics
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
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
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
Bringing Silverware home brings new challenges Well old challenges but none-the-less what better time to start than now. Team New Zealand finally extracted its payback and is bringing … Continue reading NZ Wins America’s Cup. AIRPORT LINE CONSTRUCTION NEEDED NOW!
Business Case advances, project waiting for construction Good news – well sort of! According to the Auckland Transport Board Agenda Paper for June (and linked up by Greater … Continue reading Southern Airport Line Advancing. Envisaged Completion by 2020
Long Term Plan and Auckland Transport Alignment Project out of date As I went cruising through the Annual Plan documentation (see: Council to Vote on Annual Plan (Council Budget) Thursday) I … Continue reading Auckland Growth Trajectories Have Exceeded All Planning Documents. Crunch Time for Authorities
Talking Southern Auckland 