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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...
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...
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...
Len Brown Supports Trams
Manukau Mayor and super council candidate Len Brown has praised the return of electric trams as a being on the right track for the future of Auckland’s public...
ARC Fury Over Joyce
Anger today at the “discovery” that the government isn’t properly funding Auckland’s rail electrification after all. The government is now...
SuperCity Logo Row
Inevitably, Auckland can’t agree on the new SuperCity logo. In today’s arguments: The Designers Institute says that the chosen Auckland SuperCity logo...
(Video) McCully: Make RWC Great
Rugby World Cup Murray McCully this afternoon says he wants “good long term decisions” made about Queens Wharf. Speaking at the opening of Queens Wharf...
(Video) Mike Lee Opens Our Wharf
On a stunning sunny afternoon in Auckland, ARC Chair Mike Lee declared that Queens Wharf had now become “The People’s Wharf.” A public open day...
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,”...
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...
Why Be Super Mayor? It’s Starting To Sound Like An Evil SimCity
I’m beginning to wonder why anyone would want to stand for super-mayor of the new super-city, a job that seems to have become effectively a two-man race between...
ARC Calls For New Auckland Transport Agency To Be Axed
The ARC today called for the super-city plan for an Auckland Transport body to be shelved, with chair Mike Lee saying the ARC is adamantly opposed to its creation. Making...
Mike Lee Gets Govt Thumbs Up In Queens Wharf Decision
ARC’s Mike Lee emerges as the winner in today’s Government announcement that Queens Wharf is to be turned into an unspecified ‘party central’ for...
Queens Wharf Debate Now Fixated On Cruise Ships
Ports of Auckland will transfer Queens Wharf to its new owners, the Government and the Auckland Regional Council, in April. And that’s where the debate about Queens...
ARC Chair’s Last Minute “Dear Jim” Letter Over Newmarket West Station
ARC chairman Mike Lee has made a desperate last-minute Christmas eve plea for the Newmarket West temporary station at Kingdon St to be saved. As first publicly revealed...
Mike Lee ‘Unsung Hero’ In Solving Bus Dispute
ARC Chair, Mike Lee, is being called the unsung hero in the Auckland bus pay dispute settlement. The Council of Trade Unions secretary, Peter Conway, today thanked...
“Historic Day” for Auckland
Today is being hailed as an historic day for Auckland. The transport minister’s confirmation of $500m for Auckland’s rail electrification - with...
Banksy Launches His SuperMayor Campaign With Rail Promise
The website johnbanks.co.nz has been saying “Coming Soon.” And this morning, Banks officially launched his bid for the Auckland supercity mayoralty with...
Big Meeting To Get Waikato Rail Link Resolved
Great to see the CBT stepping up the fight once again for the stalled Waikato -Auckland rail link. When can we visit Hamilton city by rail? For now it seems as...
After Queens Wharf, Less Haste Needed On CBD Loop Plan
Britomart tunnel | William M The appalling unsatisfactory mess we are left with from the final Queens Wharf designs contest, is another reminder that it’s important...
Plan For Historic Parnell Train Station Gathers Steam
The Parnell community committee and Parnell Inc are winning converts for a plan to get a “destination” Parnell train stop and for the station to be a...
So Much Pain, So Much Posturing
Great to see the other buses back at Britomart this morning but let’s not end the debate about who should run our public transport. Just as we were getting...
Bus Company Says ARC Threat Has Inflamed Dispute
LOCKED UP: NZ Bus' city depot At a time we would be hoping that calmness would return and we might get a settlement of the bus dispute, NZ Bus has again stepped...
ARC’s Mike Lee Turns Up Heat On Minister Over Electric Rail
ARC chairman Mike Lee is turning up the heart on transport minister Steven Joyce over the electric train issue. He has loaded up a courier van with plans and strategy...
New Auckland Transport Agency - ARC furious, roading rejoices
More reaction in to today’s important confirmation that in the wake of the new super city, we’ll have a new transport agency making decisions for Auckland ...
