Brian Rudman sums up the situation quite nicely in today’s Herald: Just as people from all around the south of England think nothing of jumping aboard a train to go to London for a day’s shopping, or to catch a show or a concert, Auckland, as New Zealand’s equivalent for […]
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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.
Brian Rudman comments in the Herald on the sneaky press release just before Christmas. Think of a figure, double it, add your age and subtract the number of eels in Oakley Creek: that, it seems, is as good a guess as any for the price of completing the Waterview Connection. […]
Brian Rudman does some digging: Figures for the first five months of operation of the Northern Gateway Toll Road, to June 30, reveal that, on average, it cost $1.29 in transaction costs to collect each $2 car toll. For those paying by phone, it would have been cheaper to have […]
Brian Rudman writes in today’s New Zealand Herald: The Government’s antipathy to embracing new Auckland public transport projects has made the debate over a rail link to Auckland International Airport rather academic. Which makes it rather surprising that the airport company should be so sensitive about a recent Metro article’s […]
Rudman pretty much sums it up in today’s Herald: Mr Joyce now seems to be deliberately taunting Aucklanders, promising all will be well, while slowly and publicly plucking the wheels off the trains, one by one. He seemed to be deliberately mischievous last weekend when, while enthusing about roads, he […]
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 […]
Brian Rudman writes in the Herald, suggesting electric buses for Downtown Auckland: The talk of removing the red fence also distracts from the real barrier separating the city from the surf, and that’s the bus station that has occupied lower Queen St since July 2003, when Mayor John Banks drove […]