Gordon Campbell has an excellent analysis of this idealogical burp in the Herald from Deloitte coporate finance partner Paul Carrow. PPPs just have to cost more because of: the increased up front legal costs of contracting the risk of failure the costs of private firms having to borrow funds instead […]
Monthly Archives: July 2009
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Brian Rudman writes in the Herald, suggesting electric buses for Downtown Auckland: The talk of removing the red fence also distracts from the real barrier separating the city from the surf, and that’s the bus station that has occupied lower Queen St since July 2003, when Mayor John Banks drove […]
There’s a fantastically interesting post over at Human Transit on comparing the benefits of buses and streetcars (trams), and how it is easy to get blinded by the romance of streetcars rather than looking at the transit problem we are trying to solve and then going about the best way […]
It appears to be generally accepted that auto-dependent sprawl is bad from an environmental perspective, and also from a social perspective. However, one of the biggest arguments that public transport advocates seem to come up against is that roading projects come across as having better cost-benefit ratios. Furthermore, land-use policies […]
There is a rather strange article in the New Zealand Herald today, entitled “Aucklanders stick with cars as best way to travel”. I’m not quite sure how most popular equates to “best”, but that’s not really the issue here. The article is based around a media release by Statistics NZ […]
Even the motoring fraternity are slowly waking up to the Government’s poor decision making of late. Alistair Sloane writes in the motoring section of today’s Herald: High-speed trains in Europe generate between four and 40 times less CO2 per passenger than other modes of transport, says the European Union. It […]
Well at long last construction of the Manukau Rail Link has begun. This will be the first new stretch of railway to be built in Auckland in around 70 years (no wonder we’re so auto-dependent), and is a fairly short link between the existing Southern Line and Manukau City Centre. […]