transport Archive

  • frog

    Auckland Bridge walk and cycleway – $10 a pop! - by frog



    The latest proposal for a walk/cycle way across Auckland Harbour Bridge would involve charging tourists $10 a pop. Seems a little crazy to me… read more
    February 9, 2011 11:11 am - 17 Comments
  • frog

    Cool animated video of Auckland transport - by frog



    There’s a cool video doing the rounds on the blogosphere right now which shows the Auckland public transport network working over a 24 hour period. An animated map of Auckland’s public transport network from Chris McDowall on Vimeo. Watching it really highlights to me how radial the public transport network is. There are a lot of [...] read more
    January 25, 2011 1:53 pm - 20 Comments
  • Gareth Hughes

    How many cupcakes would you need to sell to influence transport policy? - by Gareth Hughes



    Often when talking about the Government’s uneconomic and frankly dumb transport policy to people a common response is ‘well, that’s because the Road Transport Forum donate so much to the National Party.’ Yesterday I ran a bake sale outside Britomart to help Auckland buy back the National Party from the road and truck lobby and [...] read more
    January 13, 2011 9:20 am - 24 Comments
  • Gareth Hughes

    Before the holiday season ends send a submission on the Holiday Highway - by Gareth Hughes



    It’s almost Christmas time and I’m sure most of you are ready for a holiday. But before you go, if you live in Auckland, Rodney, Whangarei, or anywhere else and want smart transport decisions please take a few minutes to make a submission on the New Zealand Transport Agency’s latest proposal for the Holiday Highway – [...] read more
    December 22, 2010 1:45 pm - 2 Comments
  • Gareth Hughes

    Northland: the front-lines of how we move people and freight around - by Gareth Hughes



    I went to Northland last Friday to visit a region which is on the front-lines of the government’s ideological attack on how we move people and freight around. The state of Northland transport right now epitomises the Government’s pro-truck ideology: more motorways and less rail. To investigate the impacts of the Government’s push for more [...] read more
    December 20, 2010 2:49 pm - 10 Comments
  • Kevin Hague

    Rally brings hope for safer cycling - by Kevin Hague



    Yesterday, along with my colleagues Keith Locke and David Clendon (and Jacinda Ardern from Labour), I had the pleasure of attending the Bikes for Life rally in Auckland which you may have seen on the news last night. The rally was called in response to the recent spate of deaths we have seen on our roads. The husband [...] read more
    December 6, 2010 11:22 am - 8 Comments
  • David Clendon

    How will/should Auckland grow? - by David Clendon



    The question of how Auckland should grow is one that you can expect to hear an increasing amount about over the next year as the Auckland Council develops their spatial plan. The government has already made their position pretty clear – both through the release of their new document “Building Competitive Cities” and through Steven Joyce’s [...] read more
    December 1, 2010 8:30 am - 46 Comments
  • frog

    Support for CBD Rail link strong and growing - by frog



    There’s a poll on the Herald site asking if you think the Government should contribute to the CBD Rail tunnel. At nearly 15,000 votes, the vast majority (77%) say yes. Given that the Herald readership and online poll results tend towards conservative and business-oriented, there’s no reason to think that the popular support for this [...] read more
    November 30, 2010 9:56 am - 12 Comments
  • frog

    Joyce thinks importing cars, trucks & fuel is good for our trade balance - by frog



    In today’s Sunday Star Times, Joyce has an unsurprising reply to Rod Oram’s excellent piece last week (which critiqued the NZTA’s dodgy business cases for the Roads of National Party Significance).  It’s a bit ironic because Joyce starts off making the case that we are in debt and we need to get out of debt. [...] read more
    November 29, 2010 12:02 am - 24 Comments
  • frog

    Auckland CBD rail loop business case stacks up - by frog



    The long awaited Business Case for the CBD Rail Link was finally released on Wednesday this week, and it makes a compelling case for central government investment in the project. Just through traditional analysis of transport benefits, which usually underestimate the long term benefits of public transport projects, the economic case does stack up. But [...] read more
    November 26, 2010 3:10 pm - 27 Comments
  • Gareth Hughes

    Joyce’s road and rail double standard - by Gareth Hughes



    The Herald reported today that the business case for the Auckland CBD rail loop will not be released until December. This suggests that the government may be planning not to fund the loop and so they’re holding the news back until the silly season. Dropping a big piece of bad news just before Christmas is [...] read more
    November 9, 2010 3:36 pm - 2 Comments
  • Gareth Hughes

    Uneconomic motorways – one thing Brash and I agree on - by Gareth Hughes



    There aren’t many things that Don Brash and I agree on however one thing we have in common is we both share concerns around the Government’s massive motorway infrastructure projects. In the media statement on the latest 2025 Taskforce report it mentions “Public investment in big projects needed to be justified, such as the spending [...] read more
    November 3, 2010 6:07 pm - 11 Comments
  • Gareth Hughes

    Wellington 2040? How about Wellington now? - by Gareth Hughes



    Good on the Wellington City Council for taking a long view and developing a Wellington 2040 strategy – all too often in politics short term thinking leads to poor decision making. The Council have recently released a summary of public submissions, which make for interesting reading…well green reading. To begin with, the message is overwhelmingly [...] read more
    October 21, 2010 4:50 pm - 10 Comments
  • frog

    Govt celebrates World Statistics Day by ignoring statistics on transport - by frog



    Today is the first ever World Statistics Day, and Statistics Minister Maurice Williamson is celebrating. So how does he explain his colleague Steven Joyce’s determination to proceed with funding roading projects that the statistics show have significantly greater costs than benefits and the statistics show the majority of Aucklanders and Wellingtonians don’t consider priorities? read more
    October 20, 2010 9:39 am - 22 Comments
  • Gareth Hughes

    Giving the three-fingered salute to oil - by Gareth Hughes



    They say the human body is about 60% water. What percentage of New Zealand’s economy would be oil? Oil is the grease that lubricates our modern society. It’s given us tremendous power and freedom but now we’re hooked on it. One of the most serious yet ignored issues of our age is the end of [...] read more
    October 14, 2010 3:15 pm - 40 Comments
  • frog

    What would you spend the fuel tax on? - by frog



    So, you might have missed it in all the fuss about GST but the government tax on petrol rose by 3 cents/litre on of the 1st of October. I wouldn’t mind paying this increase if it was going to improve our rail, bus, walking and cycling options. But instead it will mainly be used to pay for [...] read more
    October 6, 2010 5:02 pm - 15 Comments
  • Gareth Hughes

    How to stop drink driving? - by Gareth Hughes



    A few days ago the Government announced another set of tough penalties for teen drink drivers. They have effectively reduced the blood alcohol limit for teenage drink drivers to zero. I think it is a case of youth scapegoating but I’m not complaining about this because we need to cut down on teen drink driving [...] read more
    October 4, 2010 9:58 am - 19 Comments
  • Gareth Hughes

    New Lynn opens with new hope for Auckland - by Gareth Hughes



    I attended the opening of the New Lynn transport hub last Friday. I always enjoy attending the openings of great transport projects but this one was particularly fun. It wasn’t just a lot of boring speeches but included a troupe of dancing dragons, a Maori kapa haka group performed and Govenor General Anand Satyand, made [...] read more
    September 27, 2010 9:13 am - 6 Comments
  • frog

    Imagine the freedom of carfree - by frog



    Today is the tenth world carfree day, so I hopped to work on this lovely sunny spring day in the capital. Actually, like most of the people in this office, I rarely use a car and when I do it’s a taxi or I’m sharing a lift with friends. This isn’t because I think I’m [...] read more
    September 22, 2010 5:58 pm - 6 Comments
  • David Clendon

    Dominion Road and the North-Western Busway - by David Clendon



    Those of you who have read some of my recent blog posts about Dominion Road should be pleased to hear that we saved the busway! After a fiery meeting  Auckland City Council agreed it would be foolish to allow cars with 2 passengers into the busway. This is great news as this is one of the [...] read more
    September 14, 2010 12:04 pm - 4 Comments
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