Somewhat continuing the theme of Friday’s post, it can feel difficult to be a “peak oil believer” at the moment. The narrow-minded retorts of “oil was $147 a barrel in July 2008, now it’s barely a third of that – pah!” seem to blind the average driver/politician/roading-lobbyist into believing that […]
Yearly Archives: 2009
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The Government Policy Statement (GPS) on transport guides central and local transport planning throughout the country, so it’s an important document. The Government has announced changes to the GPS. The new GPS has not been released yet, but the Minister of Transport has signalled his intentions with this document, which […]
Now if I’m being honest here, I will admit that public transport advocates do get hammered a bit on the whole “economics of transport” debate. The roads lobby constantly states how through petrol taxes trucks and cars pay their way, yet at the same time rail and buses simply can’t […]
Transport planners Julie Anne Genter, Stuart Donovan and Professor of Economics Tim Hazledine explain why there is no such thing as a free lunch, and there is no such thing as free parking.
The NZ Herald reports: Infratil subsidiary NZ Bus is selling its interest in Auckland-based ferry operator Fullers Ferries for $40 million. Infratil said the deal took the amount it would receive from announced divestments to more than $100m in the 2009/10 financial year. Fullers is being bought by Souter Holdings, […]
I’m slowly getting through reading the entire report by the Royal Commission on Auckland’s local government, and I have also read quite a few articles giving differing opinions (and a few nice summaries of the important bits) on the Report as well. So I’m starting to get a reasonably well-informed […]
The Herald reports: Auckland business leaders are pushing the Government to save more than $1 billion by controversially building the Waterview motorway link across country, rather than through tunnels. A report sent to Transport Minister Steven Joyce by the Auckland Business Forum is set to unleash furious debate at a […]
The Herald reports that: Government motorway builders are preparing to move bulldozers on to the Onehunga waterfront this week, despite efforts by a community group to tie them to an alleged 35-year-old promise to provide sandy beaches. The Transport Agency says its contractors can wait no longer to extend their […]