Guest comment from Isaac Broome Having visited Edinburgh a couple of years ago, I was facinated to read about their city council now undertaking a project to build a modern light rail system: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edinburgh_Trams Interesting to note that Edinburgh has a population of 450,000 and Auckland City also has a […]
Monthly Archives: March 2010
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Media Release from the Campaign For Better Transport A petition calling for the introduction of a commuter rail service between Auckland and Hamilton has gathered nearly 8,000 signatures. The Campaign for Better Transport wants to present the petition to Hamilton and regional politicians in two weeks time, however campaign organiser […]
The Herald reports that: Early community consultations are expected on route preferences for a new “road of national significance” costing up to $2 billion between Puhoi and the north of Wellsford. That follows the Transport Agency’s awarding last week of a contract worth to $12 million for route investigation work […]
Mike Lee pretty much hits the nail on the head with CCO’s and Auckland Transport: According to the explanatory note to the third bill currently being deliberated by the select committee, the Super City was intended to “create one Auckland, which has strong regional governance, integrated decision making, greater community […]
We need your help! The CBT petition calling on the Govt. and its agencies to immediately fund Waikato commuter trains to Auckland will be presented to MP’s at the end of this month. We have over 6,000 signatures now ( 3,000 collected in just the past 2 weekends). There is […]
Both TVNZ and the NZ Herald report that KiwiRail is under pressure to mothball the Napier – Gisborne line, and the northern portion of the Wairarapa line (Masterton – Woodville).