Flashback Saturday: Why AWHC is the stupidest transport project ever
Most weekends we dig into the archive. Because AWHC is back in the news, we have brought out a post first published almost exactly a decade ago in December 2012.
In the fallout from the release of the City Centre Future Access Study last Thursday and the government’s rather bizarre response to it, for some reason there seems to have been renewed discussion about the Additional Waitemata Harbour Crossing (AWHC) project.…
29 Comments Weekly Roundup 09-December-2022
Kia ora! Hope you’ve had a great week with a few last-month-of-the-year celebrations thrown in.
Header image: the Maungarei Reindeer, via twitter. The week in Greater Auckland
On Monday, Matt wrote about the Transport Choices funding package: a nationwide $350m fund to deliver transport projects that align with the Emissions Reduction Plan.…
Time to rethink Light Rail
Tomorrow the Mayor and government ministers will find out just how much more the City Rail Link will cost and how much longer it will take to deliver. While they’re discovering that, it would pay for them to cast their minds to what impacts the factors behind those changes will have on Auckland’s other big rail project – light rail – and whether now is the time to change course for a cheaper and better alternative.…
Higher fares and fewer buses on the way?
Earlier this week Mayor Wayne Brown announced his budget proposal for 2023/24, promising a rate rise of 4.66% – which is below our current inflation rate of 7.2%. Though note that the increase in general rates is 7%, with the total figure proposed to be brought down by some cuts in targeted rates.…
CRL Day One plans
Last week during the council’s new Transport and Infrastructure Committee, City Rail Link, Auckland Transport and Kiwirail gave an update on the CRL and the future of the Auckland network.
The update and subsequent questions by councillors was quite long, coming in at nearly two hours all up but I’ve put the videos at the end of the post in case anyone is interested in watching them.…
The Transport Choices Package
Yesterday the government announced the Transport Choices Package, which is funded from their Climate Emergency Response Fund (CERF) as part of the actions to deliver on the targets of the Emissions Reduction Plan. As the name suggests, this programme of work is intended to reduce emissions by improving transport choices for New Zealanders.…
Flashback Saturday: AT’s New CEO (again)
Most Saturdays we dig into the archives. The post below was originally published on 1 April 2022. That’s barely six months ago, but it feels like a timely re-read given this week’s developments.
Developments in a nutshell: A year ago, Auckland Transport’s CEO, Shane Ellison, resigned.…
Weekly Roundup 02-December-2022
Tēnā koutou. With the arrival of Hakihea/December it’s truly the downhill run now. Counting down the sleeps til Kirihimete?
Cover image: Faraday St, Melbourne, re-imagined. Image from RMIT. The week in Greater Auckland
In Monday’s post, Matt examined AT’s planned mitigation of the Southern Line rail shutdowns, and suggested a few improvements.…
The Impact of Half Priced Fares
In March, in a bid to address the increasing cost of living, the government announced it was giving a 50% discount on public transport as well as a 25c per litre drop in fuel taxes for three months. It was later extended by two more months and then in July extended till 31-January.…
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