Archive for: ARC Chair

Time For Airport Rail Campaign

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...

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Holiday Highway Tag Attacked

Holiday Highway Tag Attacked

Auckland City Council transport committee chairman Ken Baguley today asked critics not to label the proposed Puhoi to Wellsford road “holiday highway.” He...

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Lee: Eden Park Right Place

Lee: Eden Park Right Place

ARC Chair Mike Lee tonight defended his council’s insistence that the RWC matches should be held at Eden Park, not at a waterfront stadium, as proposed by...

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Mike Lee Candidacy Confirmed

Mike Lee Candidacy Confirmed

ARC Chair, Mike Lee, will stand as a council candidate for City Vision for the Waitemata & Gulf ward of the new Auckland Council. His endorsement by the left-leaning...

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Urgent Work Not ÒHoliday HighwayÓ

Urgent Work Not “Holiday Highway”

ARC’s transport and urban development committee today stopped short of supporting what Chair Mike Lee once famously dubbed the “holiday highway.” Instead...

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CBD Rail Loop: ÒJust Get On With ItÓ

CBD Rail Loop: “Just Get On With It”

ARC Chair Mike Lee today repeated his call for the CBD rail loop to happen. “No argument, I”m just concerned someone now needs to get on with it,”...

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Grafton Opening: Mike Lee Calls For CBD Rail Loop

Grafton Opening: Mike Lee Calls For CBD Rail Loop

ARC Chair, Mike Lee, used this afternoon’s Grafton train station opening to call for the CBD rail loop as the next big project. “I urge the government...

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