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Auckland PT Patronage Breaks Records
As predicted, the March patronage figures for Auckland’s public transport are off the scale. With higher petrol prices encouraging the growth of public transport...
How 2 Trains Almost Collided
A report into a near head on collision at Amokura reveals three people in train control didn’t know about the second train on the line - and one controller...
Auckland PT Use Cracks 60m
Public transport use in Auckland has cracked 60 million boardings for the year. The impressive June rises for bus and train patronage has pushed the total patronage...
Train Victim Not Identified
Police are still trying to identify the man critically injured when he was struck by a train in Levin on Friday night. They have produced this image of him in the...
Video: 65 Dead In India’s Train Smash
In Eastern India, at least 65 people were killed and at least 200 injured after a high-speed train derailed and was struck by a cargo train traveling on a nearby...
Manawatu Train Death
Fielding Police are currently investigating the death of a male after he was struck a train at approximately 9pm last night. A north- bound freight train rounded...
ARC To Change Its Public Transport Usage Targets
The ARC is going to consider a new 30 year Road Land Transport Strategy at a meeting next month. Committee chair Christine Rose says it will set new targets for...
This Weekend’s Train, Motorway Disruptions
As well as no buses for those services affected by the industrial dispute, there is more development work on rail and roads this weekend. Rail bus replacements will...
Morningside Commuters Find Their Station A “Bomb Wreck”
Commuters trying to board from Morningside are battling to be able to find any room on the platform to stand amid machines and workmen busy tearing down the old...
Auckland Electric Train Purchase Held Up: Budget Gloom
Why can’t we just get on with it? MORE MOTORWAYS: Yes Aucland so needs more cars! The budget confirmed earlier government support for money towards road transport...
Suspicious package causes train chaos: usual lack of communication
CHAOS: Long delays and usual confusion at Britomart tonight UPDATE: The police blew up the package - no bomb. “At least it’s not our fault -...
Thanks Steven, at last some clarity
At last some clarity about who is paying for Auckland’s electric trains. ELECTRIC: The debate today turned a corner Here is Minister Joyce’s statement...
Buy an apartment close to the trains- only $43,000!
UGLY: A typically crap looking apartment block by the Morningside tracks If you stand on the Morningside platform, you get a view of the large cheap and nasty looking...
London snow is a timely warning about our travel info
For a while, I subscribed to the txt message service for the train service supplied through Maxx. It was a waste of money. Messages are only sent for train delays...
Start swotting your Train Code!
Stand there rigid and don't touch anything or you'll explode! What is with Veolia all of a sudden? Back from holidays, we find the trains littered with new...
Catch a train from the Strand? So says the sign!
You can catch a train from the old railway station at the Strand during peak times. So says this sign -significantly detached from reality. It’s hanging at...
What we don’t want any more of in 09
I hope local rail officials had a New Year promise: no more breakdowns this year please. We had enough like this last year.
