An excellent letter to the editor of The Dominion Post today: OPINION: KiwiRail will find it very difficult to ever make a profit while taxpayers and ratepayers heavily subsidise its competition – the trucking industry.
Yearly Archives: 2009
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The New Zealand Herald reports Transport Minister Steven Joyce is “worried” that the Super City mayoral contenders – John Banks and Len Brown – are too ambitious for further investment in rail beyond the $1 billion electrification project: Transport Minister Steven Joyce is trying to dampen early hopes for airport […]
Computerworld reports Infratil’s smart-card integrated ticketing subsidiary, Snapper, is in a last gasp attempt to win the contract for Auckland’s integrated ticketing system: Snapper chief executive Miki Szikszai says Snapper can work with the Auckland Regional Transport Authority (ARTA) to have integrated ticketing on 90 percent of Auckland’s buses, trains […]
The New Zealand Herald reports Transport Minister Steven Joyce is vowing to get Auckland’s $1 billion rail electrification project back on track by Christmas, after yesterday announcing ownership plans for new trains.
Minister of Transport Steven Joyce has just announced the new ownership and operating model for metro commuter rail services in Auckland and Wellington. In a nutshell: KiwiRail subsidiaries will own the rolling stock (that means neither ARTA or the Greater Wellington Regional Council will own rolling stock, as currently proposed); […]
Brian Rudman writes in today’s New Zealand Herald: The Government’s antipathy to embracing new Auckland public transport projects has made the debate over a rail link to Auckland International Airport rather academic. Which makes it rather surprising that the airport company should be so sensitive about a recent Metro article’s […]
KiwiRail’s staff newsletter, The Express (not online sorry), has a series of pictures of the new EMUs for Wellington’s electrified urban rail system. The 149-seat units are under construction at Changwon in South Korea. More details here.
Rudman pretty much sums it up in today’s Herald: Mr Joyce now seems to be deliberately taunting Aucklanders, promising all will be well, while slowly and publicly plucking the wheels off the trains, one by one. He seemed to be deliberately mischievous last weekend when, while enthusing about roads, he […]