The Manukau Courier reports the 300 metres long by seven metres deep and up to 18 metres wide rail trench in Manukau has now been completed on the $42 million Manukau rail link.
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13 July 2010, 7:30pm Grey Lynn Community Centre, 510 Richmond Rd Special Guest Speaker Mayor John Banks This meeting is a CBT member only event. (Yes you can renew your subscription on the night for $20!). Seats are limited to 60, so please RSVP to so that we have an […]
ARTA Media Release “A lot of activity will be happening over the Queen’s Birthday weekend with commissioning of the final 3km section of double track from the new Avondale Station to Tititrangi Road in New Lynn, which begins at 7pm on Friday June 4th. In order to complete the final […]
Clem7 is a PPP toll road in Brisbane. ABC News reports that: An independent report out today claims RiverCity Motorway is making $870,000 a month but having to pay $8 million a month in interest on its $1.3 billion debt. RiverCity chief executive officer Flan Cleary says he has not […]
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 […]
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 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.