The Herald today reports that Unstable ground around Dome Valley north of Auckland threatens to rip the wheels off the Government’s “road of national significance” from Puhoi to Wellsford. Transport Agency northern highways manager Tommy Parker has admitted concerns about the feasibility of completing the road as a four-lane expressway […]
Puhoi To Wellsford
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Bob Scott has done a brilliant article summarising the folly of the Holiday Highway: A headline like “80 New Zealanders Sentenced to Death” would bring an outraged reaction if resulting from the actions of a Third World despot. But the reality is, that’s not the case. Rather it’s what could […]
The really interesting thing about the editorial in the NZ Herald about toll dodgers is that it tells us that ” the tolls paid off more than $11.3m of a 35-year $159m loan it took to complete the $356m project ” in the last two years. The article claims that […]
Submissions on the Holiday Highway close tomorrow on January 28th. Fill in your submission here, or send an email to To get you started, you might like to consider the following bullet points, which form the basis of the CBT’s submission: The proposed Puhoi to Wellsford Toll Road has a […]
Local publication Mahurangi Matters has run a story on finding the best solution for upgrading SH1. The CBT contributed a piece on our “Operation Livesaver” proposal: The Campaign for Better Transport (CBT) last year proposed an alternative to the costly Puhoi to Wellsford toll road currently being proposed by the […]
A Beehive media release has announced: Transport Minister Steven Joyce has asked officials from the Ministry of Transport, the Treasury and the NZ Transport Agency to work with Auckland Transport, Auckland Council and other agencies to review the business case for a CBD rail link ahead of any further discussions […]
Steven Joyce responded to my article in the Sunday Star Times last week, as well as Rod Oram’s: Rod Oram’s second opinion piece on Auckland transport issues contains a further significant factual error, which results in him again overstating his case. It is simply incorrect to say that the proposed […]
Martin Gummer was chief executive of Transfund NZ from 1997 to 2002, and chief executive of ARTNL (the Auckland Regional Transport Network Ltd) from 2002 – 2004. Transport officials, past or present, almost never speak out on transport issues, so it is particularly courageous of Martin to do so in […]