ARTA media release The Auckland Regional Transport Authority (ARTA), in conjunction with the New Zealand Transport Agency (NZTA), today announced the next step in the delivery of an integrated ticketing system for Auckland’s train, bus and ferry users with the selection of a preferred tender. ARTA’s Chairman, Rabin Rabindran says, […]
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The Herald reports on our submission on heavy trucks: Pro-rail campaigners say the Government is seeking public support for heavier trucks without producing evidence of economic benefits to justify the extra wear on the country’s roads. The Campaign for Better Transport in Auckland says submissions due by Friday on a […]
Road users urged to submit against law change allowing bigger trucks The Campaign For Better Transport is urging concerned road users and organisations to make submissions against the Government’s proposal to let larger and heavier trucks on our roads from next year. Spokesperson Cameron Pitches says the move would greatly […]
Carpool Day is a single day event being held in Auckland on Wednesday 5th August, to provide motivation for reluctant carpoolers to get over their “inertia hump” and try carpooling for one day. We then hope that, having tried it once, a significant number of people will see carpooling as a […]
Gordon Campbell has an excellent analysis of this idealogical burp in the Herald from Deloitte coporate finance partner Paul Carrow. PPPs just have to cost more because of: the increased up front legal costs of contracting the risk of failure the costs of private firms having to borrow funds instead […]
Brian Rudman writes in the Herald, suggesting electric buses for Downtown Auckland: The talk of removing the red fence also distracts from the real barrier separating the city from the surf, and that’s the bus station that has occupied lower Queen St since July 2003, when Mayor John Banks drove […]
There’s a fantastically interesting post over at Human Transit on comparing the benefits of buses and streetcars (trams), and how it is easy to get blinded by the romance of streetcars rather than looking at the transit problem we are trying to solve and then going about the best way […]
It appears to be generally accepted that auto-dependent sprawl is bad from an environmental perspective, and also from a social perspective. However, one of the biggest arguments that public transport advocates seem to come up against is that roading projects come across as having better cost-benefit ratios. Furthermore, land-use policies […]