Analysing the Puhoi-Wellsford Road
When the seven roads of national significance were announced back in March this year I don’t think I quite appreciated the extent to which transport prioritisation would be based around them. However, one thing did stand out at the time – and that was how strange it was to include the link between Puhoi and Wellsford.…
44 Comments Lockout Ends – buses back tomorrow
Ah finally, the lockout has ended. The NZ Herald reports:
Buses will be back on Auckland roads tomorrow after seven days of disrupted service.
NZ Bus has agreed to suspend the lock out of staff and the union has agreed to suspend industrial action.…
Upcoming electrification works
While the debate over how many electric trains Auckland will get continues, there are signs that the infrastructure side of this critical project is proceeding quite well. Here’s an interesting story from KiwiRail’s most recent newsletter:…
The Oil Crash
Here’s a really informative video – broken up into a series of parts – about peak oil’s causes and potential effects. It’s definitely worth a watch in my opinion:…
Bus Lockout – an end in sight?
We finally saw a bit of movement in the ongoing bus lockout today, with ARTA taking the hint from ARC Chairman Mike Lee and putting the hard word on NZ Bus themselves:
The Auckland Regional Transport Authority (ARTA) has written to New Zealand Bus asking the company, in the interests of Auckland commuters, to provide proposals to resolve the current dispute by 5pm today.…
New Lynn rail trench – progress
The New Lynn rail trench is the biggest section of Project DART that remains to be completed. This trench is a critical project that will ensure that the railway line can be double-tracked through New Lynn while not cutting the township in two and preventing good quality future pedestrian linkages from one side of the place to the other.…
I agree 100% with John Banks
I never quite imagined that I would say it, but I agree 100% with John Banks’s opinion piece in the NZ Herald today:
I seek nothing less than Auckland becoming the aspirational capital of the South Pacific. Modern Auckland is a successful city.…
Why is NZ Bus being so stupid?
Firstly, let’s start with a few definitions:
Work-to-rule is an industrial action in which employees do no more than the minimum required by the rules of a workplace, and follow safety or other regulations to the letter in order to cause a slowdown rather than to serve their purpose.…
Avondale Station – progress
An important part of the works being done to Auckland’s Western railway line is the relocation of the Avondale train station. The previous station was located in a poor location – directly on a bend in the line, and also did not have good connections to the Avondale town centre.…
Jane Jacobs – Neighbourhoods in Action
Here’s a great video on how the different ways we design towns and cities can have a huge impact not only on the quality of our communities, but also on the health of the people living within them. Jane Jacobs wrote perhaps the most important urban planning book of the 20th century – The Death and Life of Great American Cities.…
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