On Radio NZ this morning: Mainfreight says it will double the amount it spends moving cargo on the railways if the Government changes KiwiRail to a more commercial model. The freight company spends more than $20 million per year on rail, but says it needs more rail services to be […]
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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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Following on from the ARC’s media release of last week regarding funding for rail electrification in Auckland, Brian Rudman comments in the Herald: When the new Government pulled the plug on the regional fuel tax six months ago, killing Auckland’s ability to buy itself a modern, electrified rapid-rail system, Transport […]