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Tips For Easter Motorists
Clocks go back one hour at 3am on Sunday and NZTA is urging travelling motorists, who may be in holiday mode, to remember that when they organize their homeward...
Critical Search Begins For Transport CEO
The search has begun this weekend for a person that will determine the future direction of Auckland’s public transport . It’s the interim chief executive...
What’s In The Bridge Engineering Report That Caused The Crisis
Today’s rush of activity around the state and future of the Auckland Harbour Bridge follows the delivery of an engineering report which warns the agency: “The...
Govt Transport Agency Welcomes Snapper To Auckland
In the latest twist in the integrated ticketing saga, the government’s transport agency has welcomed the bombshell announcement that Snapper is heading off...
Striking While It’s Hot
Billboards are being erected today at 20 Auckland motorway onramps to warn truckies about over-height vehicles and unsecured loads striking bridges and information...
Will New Govt Agency Policy Kill Public Transport?
The transport agency appears to be embarking on a scary accountants mindset in its approach to public transport, and some fear it’s a Trojan horse to controlling...
$5m “Transparent” Bridge To Cross Harbour Bridge
A footbridge across ten lanes of the Auckland Harbour Bridge is included in the Victoria Park tunnel project. And the latest idea talks about a of a kind of part...
Official: Highway Users Pay Only 40% of Infrastructure Costs
Users of the State Highway network are paying only 40% of the full costs of providing roading infrastructure. Not that it should surprise us, that’s the shock...
Northern Gateway Toll Road Hailed A Success Already
An important test for the country’s newest toll road has passed with flying colours and this will no doubt encourage more toll roads. The Northern Gateway Toll...
Auckland Electric trains By 2013 Becoming An Impossiblity
In June Transport Minister Steven Joyce repeated assurances that electric trains would be provided within a 2013 deadline. But how can that be realistic now? It’s...
Minister Came Through In The End
Let’s give credit where credit is due. We’ve been writing off the government’s interest in public transport but today’s announcement is a...
New trains included in Land Transport Announcement
Further digging of today’s announcements reveals the inclusion of a loan to the ARC for trains and the money for integrated ticketing. Projects given priority...
What’s Your Number, Steven?
The key rail question lost in the flurry over the new Auckland transport agency is how many electric trains Auckland will end up getting. This will be decided by...
Stand By For More & More Roads
Never let it be said that Uncle Steven does not splash money around. It will be an early Christmas on Thursday – for those in National’s favoured lobby group,...
ARC Tries To Flush out Govt On Train Funding
Good on ARC chief Mike Lee for trying to flush out the Government over its disturbing cone of silence about funding for Auckland’s train electrification. As...
Integrated Ticketing Approved Across NZ - But In Which Century?
The ridiculous integrated ticketing saga is at last inching ahead but years late and set to miss the Rugby World Cup here much to the ire no doubt of tourists....
Auckland’s 10 - year Transport Plan is Stuck in The Funding Tunnel
The Government’s obsession with road transport carries over to ARTA’s finally completed 10-year transport plan for Auckland which predictably sees lower...
Official: More People Using Cars - & It’s Killing Us
New Zealanders are car crazy. While the latest Auckland train and bus patronage figures show an increase, an official snapshot from 2006 released today shows more...
The Devil Is In the Detail
What an understatement. The latest Central Leader newspaper giveaway under a heading Action on Onehunga Line gives the impression the issues around the planned...
Will Auckland Torpedo Hamilton Rail Plan?
Waikato’s regional council, Environment Waikato, next week discusses a final consultant’s report which puts up a strong case for a weekday Hamilton...
Integrated Ticketing: What It Takes To Get Slowly Past The Post
A poor man’s integrated ticketing system for Auckland is now on the cards. Just as the Auckland Regional Council was finally approving a tender for such...
Auckland Harbour Bridge Protest: Now They Want To Prosecute us!(+video of bridge opening)
News reports today said the transport agency is wading through Sunday’s surveillance cameras to find recognisable people to prosecute for walking or cycling...
Auckland Harbour Bridge Protest: People Power Wins the Day (+Photos)
They lectured us about how they had “put an advertisement in the newspaper” warning the GetAcross Campaign that the idea of cycling or walking across...
Auckland Harbour Bridge 50th: The Day They Let Us Walk It
What an amazing day this must have been. This Sunday 50 years ago, 106,5000 people walked the Auckland Harbour Bridge just before it was officially opened on...
Transport Minister: Committed to Public Transport Funding - But Is The Integrated Ticketing Plan Now Dead?
Transport Minister Steven Joyce says his government is committed to providing funding for public transport issues in Auckland. In a letter to reader James, he...
