Incredibly, our campaign for a waterfront tram has been adopted by the ARC and the Sea+City development team. The Campaign for Better Transport and MOTAT pitched the idea to the ARC in 2008, and Mike Lee and Sea+City have well and truly picked up the ball and run with it. The […]
Yearly Archives: 2010
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ARTA reports a dramatic increase in cycling in the Auckland region: The number of people cycling in the Auckland region has dramatically increased by 27% compared to last year, according to a survey for the Auckland Regional Transport Authority (ARTA). Over 12,000 cyclist movements were recorded at 84 sites across […]
Submissions have now finished, but followers of our Waikato Trains Now! campaign might find this letter we sent to Cr Norm Barker at Environment Waikato a useful summary of the current positions. Environment Waikato are currently deliberating over whether to include Waikato rail in their Annual Plan.
The Waikato Times reports that KiwiRail will be laying on charter trains for Rugby World Cup games in Hamilton. An Auckland-to-Hamilton train service is being touted for the Rugby World Cup as a way to boost visitors to the city. KiwiRail public affairs general manager Kevin Ramshaw confirmed it was […]
KiwiRail’s long awaited “Turn Around Plan” was announced today, along with an announcement from the Government that they chipping in $250m from the Budget 2010 to support the plan. This is a welcome (and somewhat surprising!) move from the Government, along with a pledge for an additional $500m over the […]
I’m sure it is just a wind up by the Herald, but the opinion piece by Luke Malpass today is astonishing for its total lack of supporting evidence. What does a billion dollars mean to you? It is a huge amount of money, an amount so vast that most us cannot […]
Brian Rudman sums up the situation quite nicely in today’s Herald: Just as people from all around the south of England think nothing of jumping aboard a train to go to London for a day’s shopping, or to catch a show or a concert, Auckland, as New Zealand’s equivalent for […]
Brian Rudman writes in today’s NZ Herald: Talk about trying to board the train after it leaves the station. For nigh on 100 years, efforts to build a commuter train service in Auckland have been stalled by squabbling politicians, local and national.