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Airport Buses To Run Every 10 Minutes
Buses will run every 10 minutes to and from the airport from September. The Airbus route will be split between Mt Eden Road and Dominion Road to allow more domestic...
Airport Rail Study: Translator Needed
An Auckland Transport update on the multi-agency study into airport rail and other future transport options to Auckland Airport is welcome but is there a translator...
Auckland Unleashed Or Tied Up?
The prime minister came away from today’s Auckland summit talking up the Puhoi to Wellsford highway, re-affirming the Government is totally committed to it...
Auckland Airport Rail Progress
An international consultancy group chosen to investigate future transport links to Auckland Airport is steaming ahead with the study, which includes a look at a...
Airport Growth Needs Rail Link
Often lost in the debate about the move to provide an Auckland rail service to the airport for passengers is that the service would also be embraced by workers in...
Airport Rail Link Gets Serious
An important move to progress plans for an airport rail link. Tenders are being called to carry out the first stage of an investigation into preferred routes for...
Anyone With A Spare $1,990m?
So how can we find just under $2 billion for the CBD Rail Loop? A report to this week’s Auckland Council transport committee meeting, which discusses the crucial...
Auckland Rail Plans In 3D
Auckland Council is ordering up a 3D animated visual interpretation of its rail project vision. A Government tender process closed this morning for a company to...
Toll Motorways To Fund Rail
Tolls on motorways to pay for Auckland’s big rail projects? Great idea - and good to see it advocated here by Allan Griffin, formerly of the Tauranga...
Joyce: Yes To CBD Loop
Transport Minister Steven Joyce today confirmed that the CBD loop and a third Auckland harbour crossing will be the next big transport projects for Auckland -...
Auckland Airport Ignores Rail Issue
Auckland Airport Ltd’s annual report, out today, makes mention of the “possibility of a future Rapid Transit Network link to the airport” but stops...
Brisbane Airport Rail Profit
Brisbane’s privately run airport rail service has posted a 35% increase in profit. It made $10.01m in the last financial year - which is more than $13m. The...
Outlook: A Few Storms
The reality seems to be sinking in for the government as it contemplates a rail-obsessed Auckland council, something abhorrent to its road lobby mates and core philosophy. After...
Len Brown: I WILL Deliver Rail
Incoming Auckland supermayor Len Brown wants to assure AKT readers (that’s you!) he WILL deliver his promised rail projects. And he says he is very confident...
How Banks Went Off Track
In a rather dull Auckland mayoral campaign played safe by leading candidates, airport rail was the under-the-surface hot button with voters. Manukau’s Len...
Summer Look AKT
In autumn, AKT got a new look. Now it’s spring, so with the sun shining and longer days, it’s time to get out the fresh paint again. Welcome to the Summer...
Lee: Airport Rail ‘Sooner Than Later”
ARC Chair Mike Lee in a report to the full ARC council says we must start thinking now about airport rail. Discussing the success of the Onehunga line opening, he...
Airport Rail Being Taken Seriously
Good to see the morning paper has picked up on the airport rail debate, no doubt thanks to those who said they emailled them my post the other day. Even better to...
Airport Rail Will Go Broke?
John Banks threw an unwelcome curveball into the airport rail debate at the weekend by claiming that if Auckland gets airport rail, it will go broke. He claims there’s...
Banks: Rail To Albany Lunacy
With just days left for voting in the local body election, Auckland Mayor John Banks says airport rail would go broke and rail to Albany was a lunatic idea, neither of...
Poll: Aucklanders Want More Rail
Another poll puts Auckland rail projects as among the big four Aucklanders want the new local body setup to give priority to when elected. An extended commuter...
PPPs Favoured For Next Projects
If you believe yet another new survey, Aucklanders want Public Private Partnerships (PPPs) to fund faster infrastructure development.– provided they own the...
How To Change Auckland in 100 Days
A door-to-door mini-bus based public transport system is advocated today in a 45 page report, from CEOs and member companies of the New Zealand Business Council...
Time For Airport Rail Campaign
As I predicted, the media virtually ignored rail’s big day on Saturday with scant coverage of the opening of Onehunga attended by hundreds of excited people...
No CBD Loop Before 2027
So it’s official. Construction of a CBD loop won’t start within the next decade. That’s the word from transport minister Steven Joyce. The first...
