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Playing With Figures
One of the most astonishing things I have noticed since running this blog has been the indecent playing around with projections, often using the latest fashionable...
CBD Link: Rejection Report
Below is the full Ministry of Transport and Treasury review of the Business Case for the proposed Auckland City Centre Rail Link. Ministry of Transport and Treasury...
Transport Ministry “Explain” Their Decision
Below is the Ministry of Transport “explanation” of its rejection of the CBD business case. The proposed Auckland City Centre Rail Link is a 3.5 km double...
Rail Loop: The Auckland Case
Below is the full independent review of the CBD rail link business case for the project commissioned by Auckland Council and Auckland Transport. Unlike the Government-ordered...
Joyce Unconvinced By CBD Rail
The Government-ordered review of the Business Case for the CBD Rail Link concluded that the case for funding and building the rail link has not yet been made. And...
KiwiRail Boost But No Word On CBD Link
No mention of the Auckland CBD eail link in the Budget, announced this afternoon - but the Government is digging into its pockets for $250 million more for KiwiRail...
Greens Walking Train For Tunnel
Greens’ transport spokesman Gareth Hughes this afternoon led a “walking train” of supporters to campaign for the CBD Rail Link tunnel. Greens walking...
Bad Look
The Mayor needs to get back on the trains. He is playing into the hands of the anti-rail critics who said his much-publicised trip on a train was a one-off PR stunt. This...
Council Seeks More Transport Money
Auckland Council plans to tell the Transport Minister that Auckland’s transport system has suffered from under-investment over decades and Auckland’s contribution...
Key Wants Only “Realistic” Rail Plans
KEY: Rail plans have to be "realistic and necessary" John Key made it clear this afternoon that Auckland’s rail and other public transport plans...
Train Mayor Wants PT Use Doubled
Mayor Len Brown took the train from Papatoetoe this morning to Britomart - and says he wants public transport patronage doubled within the next ten years. Today...
Brisbane Has Its CBD Rail Plan Too
Oh to be in an enlightened political environment like Brisbane’s. An $8 billion underground rail project, not unlike our CBD loop plan, has been put at the...
Len’s Christmas Wish
This is Mayor Brown’s Christmas card. It took me a few seconds to register the words on the front. All I want for Christmas is a city rail loop. Don’t...
CBD Rail: Govt MPs Run For Cover
The political battle lines are drawn. National MPs are running for cover instead of making a commitment on whether Auckland rail commuters can get a CBD rail link,...
CBD Loop: More “Get Lost” Talk
The Government has yet to formally respond to the business case for the CBD link, released last week, yet continues to tell Aucklanders to forget it. Minister of...
Brown: CBD Link In 7 Years
Auckland Mayor Len Brown this afternoon promised the CBD rail link will be operational in 7 years - if he has his way. And he told a news conference that he...
What’s In CBD Link Business Case
The CBD rail loop is the secret to “unlock Auckland’s strategic growth potential in many ways.” That’s the strong message in the much-anticipated...
CBD Link May Cost $2.3b
The CBD Rail Link business case cost estimate ranges from $1.99bn to $2.38bn. The cost of the loop includes property acquisition costs of about $230m. At today’s...
Congestion Charge the Answer?
It’s interesting to note we’re not the only place struggling to contemplate new ways to fund infrastructure for public transport. An Australian engineering...
You Go Girl!
One of the most fascinating things about the new Auckland council is that those advocating strongly for rail and public transport are not just that strange leftie...
Key’s Encouraging Noises
Encouraging noises from prime minister John Key this afternoon for Auckland’s rail dreams. In the wake of the landslide mandate for new mayor Len Brown to...
Roger’s Loop Proposal
Reader Roger Kirk is proposing this as the CBD loop: “This is the loop I would like to see. As long as the ability to feed into the eventual north line is...
WWF Loop Protest
The day after the Auckland mayoral election result, environmental group WWF will set up a “construction site” in the Market Square to call on the Mayor...
Albert Park CBD Loop Pushed
Mayoral candidate Colin Craig not content with the suggestion pods are the answer to Auckland transport woes now is pushing an Albert Park inner city rail loop. He...
CBD Loop Not Yet On Agenda
Transport Minister Steven Joyce says the CBD rail loop is not “off the government’s agenda” because it has never been “on the agenda.” He...
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