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 […]
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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 […]
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 […]
There is a rather strange article in the New Zealand Herald today, entitled “Aucklanders stick with cars as best way to travel”. I’m not quite sure how most popular equates to “best”, but that’s not really the issue here. The article is based around a media release by Statistics NZ […]
Even the motoring fraternity are slowly waking up to the Government’s poor decision making of late. Alistair Sloane writes in the motoring section of today’s Herald: High-speed trains in Europe generate between four and 40 times less CO2 per passenger than other modes of transport, says the European Union. It […]
Well at long last construction of the Manukau Rail Link has begun. This will be the first new stretch of railway to be built in Auckland in around 70 years (no wonder we’re so auto-dependent), and is a fairly short link between the existing Southern Line and Manukau City Centre. […]
I’m reading an excellent book at the moment – Resilient Cities by Peter Newman, Timothy Beatley and Heather Boyer. I commented on this book a few posts ago, with particular reference to how pathetic our preparedness for peak oil is and how stupid Treasury’s oil price predictions are. I have […]
The Herald reports: Heavier trucks could be on the road by 2010 if an amendment is passed following a successful trial, Transport Minister Steven Joyce says. The amendment would create a permit system allowing some trucks to carry up to 50 tonnes on specified routes. The statutory limit is currently […]