What a fantastic day for Auckland! After 50 years of having the Auckland Harbour Bridge locked off to all those not in cars, today Aucklanders took back Our Bridge. I was right there at the front of the rally – impressed by the speeches (particularly that of Christine Rose) and […]
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The Herald reports: Walkers and cyclists planning a protest crossing of Auckland Harbour Bridge on Sunday morning will find it defended by a new security fence as well as by police. The Transport Agency, which has put up the 1.8m fence this week along the Curran St on-ramp, is also […]
From the Herald: The question of where buses should stop in a North Shore town centre has taken five years of study and cost ratepayers more than $87,000. And it looks like the site for the Browns Bay bus stops won’t be settled for some time yet following a row […]
Brian Rudman at the Herald: Each time I write in praise of public transport, I end up having to eat my words. On Monday I was lauding the increased patronage figures in Auckland but by 8.15 on Wednesday night, I didn’t care whether I ever saw another commuter bus in […]
Both Brian Rudman and, perhaps surprisingly, Jeremy Sole of the New Zealand Contractors Federation are waking up to the radical changes proposed for changes to national land transport funding. Rudman: As Auckland Regional Transport Authority chairman Mark Ford noted, “to put it simply, where there has been investment, there has […]
Responding to NZTA CEO Geoff Dangerfield’s fuddy-duddy response to the May 24th protest, Bevan Woodward tells it like it is: It’s not just about the cycleway. I’ve been campaigning for walking and cycling access on the Auckland Harbour Bridge for more than 10 years. During that time the NZ Transport […]
Steven Joyce really is beginning to annoy me as Transport Minister. Not only has he trodden all over the people of Mt Albert and Waterview, in deciding to can the Waterview tunnel, but he lives in a bizarre dreamland where he thinks that funding for future transport projects should be […]
The Herald reports that the Government has canned the Waterview tunnel, but hasn’t announced what it will be replaced with just yet. The Transport Agency is expected to make a decision today. The maximum budget for the project will be $1.4bn. Act MP John Boscawen thinks the whole thing can […]