The Herald’s Editorial asserting that the ARC’s transport plan “ignores reality” for its focus on public transport is remarkable for its poor grasp of what current realities actually are. The reality is that significant roading projects such as the revised $1.8bn Waterview extension and the $2bn+ Puhoi to Wellsford motorway […]
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Good to see the Regional Transport Committee isn’t blindly accepting the Government priority on Roads of National Significance. The Herald reports: One of seven Government “roads of national significance”, a $2.3 billion highway north of Auckland, has been placed at the bottom of a list of regional transport priorities. The […]
An article in the NZ Herald on Wednesday looked at the need for a change in vision regarding New Zealand’s transport planning. Mr Gunstan, a commercial manager for the Marsden Pt oil refinery before becoming a fulltime “futurist strategist”, advised planners to break free of incremental thinking wedded to the […]
CBT’s Jon Reeves found this article in The Age yesterday, causing us to wonder when New Zealand will start listening to public tranport advice from overseas studies? Somehow we seem to think we are different and that even if more roads don’t work for other countries, they will still work here. The Age […]
Media Release from the Campaign for Better Transport: 05/09/2009 16:16:01 The Campaign For Better Transport’s Hamilton to Auckland commuter train campaign has been so successful, the group have had to order the printing of thousands more of the postcards they are getting people to sign to show their support. New Zealand’s major sustainable […]
As Josh Arbury blogs, and the Herald reports, the order for electric trains is under threat. A basic summary of the situation is that ARTA had an orginal budget of $512m, broken down in the table below: Now, however, the Government has capped the electrification spend for rolling stock at $500m and […]
Fullers ferry company and connecting bus operators are offering people a week’s free travel over the next month on the following ferry services: Half Moon Bay, Devonport, Stanley Bay, Birkenhead, Bayswater and Northcote Pt. The offer is valid from Monday 31 August until Sunday 27 September. Associated feeder bus services are also […]
There was a good turn out at the ARTA Onehunga Line Open Evening last week from both the public and CBT members. Whilst ARTA did not make a presentation as such, information was displayed regarding railway station and level crossing locations, and ARTA spokespeople were available for questioning. CBT was […]