Our Annual General Meeting is set down for: Thursday 19th June 2014, 7:30pm Garden Room, Grey Lynn Community Centre, 510 Richmond Road All members are welcome – please reply to this email if you intend on coming so that we can get an idea of the numbers to expect. Nominations […]
Yearly Archives: 2014
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The following letter from the Campaign for Better Transport appeared in the NZ Herald today: Like many, I suspect, correspondent Nick Cottle believes that economic benefits will flow from the NZ Transport Agency’s proposed toll road from Puhoi to the north of Warkworth. In reality, NZTA have not provided any […]
NZTA report cites delays at Warkworth to increase significantly after toll road completes The Campaign for Better Transport today labelled the proposed Warkworth toll road as “fundamentally flawed”. The organisation today took its concerns to the Board of Inquiry set up to look at the environmental impacts of the $750m […]
Today the Campaign for Better Transport presents their submission to the Board of Inquiry. The full presentation is here. Our areas of contention are: Whether projected traffic volumes for the Project route and existing SH1 are realistic Whether a supporting economic analysis consistent with the NZTA’s Economic Evaluation Manual should […]
The Campaign for Better Transport is calling for the Northland rail network to remain open in the long term, in the wake of Kiwirail’s decision to suspend all freight services north of Auckland. Kiwirail’s announcement means that up to 200 truck movements a day of milk powder and logs will […]
Campaign for Better Transport spokesperson Cameron Pitches today welcomed the announcement of additional bus lanes for Fanshawe Street. “This will come as a relief to North Shore bus commuters, who regularly find themselves stuck in general traffic during the evening rush hour,” said Mr Pitches. Last month Luke Christensen posted […]
The team at TransportBlog have organised their next movie night fundraiser for Wednesday 12th March at the Capitol, Balmoral. Set in the Los Angeles of the slight future, “Her” follows Theodore Twombly, a complex, soulful man who makes his living writing touching, personal letters for other people. Heartbroken after the […]
Demand for a bridge cannot be judged by the number of people swimming across a river. Yet the Prime Minister insists that rail patronage must double before the Government commits to funding the City Rail Link, a concept that does not apply to the multi-billion dollar Roads of National Significance. […]