The New Zealand Transport Agency in conjunction with Auckland Transport has released the Additional Waitemata Harbour Connections Business Case, which outlines serious proposals for rail-based mass transit to the North Shore. What is being proposed? The business case proposes a three-stage process, with the following stages: Busway enhancement from city […]
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The Campaign for Better Transport (CBT) is pleased to hear the government has announced the start of train services from Hamilton to Papakura but is concerned about some of the features of the proposed service. On a positive front, it is good to see an idea that the CBT first […]
So far there has been no official word from the Government on reversing the decision to de-electrify the main trunk line between Hamilton and Palmerston North. Greater Auckland have an insightful guest post on why the decision is flawed, and you have to wonder why the Government is dawdling on […]
The East West Link project was a project designed as a motorway between Penrose and Onehunga and was expected to cost up to 1.8 billion dollars. Our campaign up to and including the Board of Inquiry was covered in these posts at Greater Auckland. Costs, benefits, and East-West Connections (Dec […]
The CBT presented to the Board of Auckland Transport on rail to Auckland airport. We made the following points in this “one pager”. 1. In our view the Jacobs “SMART Indicative Business Case” report underestimates the potential catchment of heavy rail, we assume because of the arbitrary requirement for a […]
With thanks to the RMTU and thedailyblog.co.nz you can now view our Airport Rail meeting on demand: The speakers are in order: Graeme Easte from CBT @ 3:30 Pete Clark from Auckland Transport @ 25:22 Graham Matthews from Auckland Airport @ 34:30 Mike Lee from Auckland Council @ 50:10 Jim […]
Media Release From the Campaign for Better Transport Government moves to relax rules for heavy trucks have prompted road safety concerns from The Campaign for Better Transport. The Ministry of Transport is proposing to allow standard truck maximum weights to increase from 44 tonnes to 45 tonnes, remove the need […]
The Ministry of Transport is proposing changes to the Vehicle Mass and Dimension (VDAM) Rule, which controls maximum allowable weights and sizes of trucks on New Zealand roads. You can read our submission here, and make your own submission online here. A pro-forma submission which you can edit is here. […]