Len Brown: Rail link a positive after missed opportunities
Britomart station will hit train handling capacity this year. It can handle only 20 trains an hour, writes Len Brown. The City Rail Link allows us to increase this to 48 trains an hour.
Britomart station will hit train handling capacity this year. It can handle only 20 trains an hour, writes Len Brown. The City Rail Link allows us to increase this to 48 trains an hour.
With regards to the Northern Corridor Improvements project, I see that the main reason is to provide an alternative north-south connection around the city.
Man at home in Auckland wakes up to charges made from Moscow.
We read today of a future of driverless transport with a mixture of excitement and foreboding.
COMMENT: It's hard to believe that a tram would beat bus from Auckland CBD to the aiport.
New Zealand's top 20 speed traps have been revealed.
More than 300 drivers have had their licences suspended under a government crackdown on more than half a billion dollars in unpaid traffic-related fines.
Dominion Rd's business community says it would welcome visitors passing through its colourful precinct on trams from the airport to downtown Auckland.
Auckland pensioners fear losing free public transport in afternoon travel peaks under a review of concessionary fares next year.
AT denies forcing KiwiRail's longhaul trains out of Britomart to a desolate station, but acknowledges it needed $600,000 to let them stay.
Auckland Transport has confirmed a second Waiheke ferry operator will share a Government subsidy for free travel to and from the island for pensioners.
Auckland commuters may face a rocky New Year after drivers for the city's bus fleet fired an opening salvo in a dispute over pay and working hours.
Auckland's largest passenger transport operator, NZ Bus, is warning of disruption to most of its services for four hours on Tuesday.
Even with fuel at its cheapest price in almost a decade, the ships that carry goods around the world have been cutting speed.
Transdev Australasia, in association with Hyundai Rotem is the preferred operator for next year.
Passenger service may halt its New Zealand expansion if a government proposal for the company to operate under the same regulations as taxis goes ahead.
Uber says it is disappointed at recommendations under a government discussion paper that would see it have to operate under the same rules as taxis.
Unions representing almost 1000 Auckland bus drivers intend to press ahead with a stop-work meeting just before Christmas.
Heavy hint that popular clothing chains Zara and Uniqlo will be part of huge Auckland development.
Cyclists and walkers can look forward to another spectacular new bridge over Auckland's motorway network, this time in Owairaka as part of the $1.4 billion Waterview Connection project.
Uber is under fire for its surge pricing policy, which some Kiwi users say has left them paying more money than they would for a regular taxi.
Long distance trains from Wellington to Auckland will stop about a kilometre short of the Britomart underground station from December 21.
Dan Alpe gives an overview of his co-founded business JUCY car rentals, including how they have achieved their goals so far.
On the city-bound side of Mokoia Rd in Birkenhead, between Porritt Avenue and Chelsea View Drive, there is a bus stop that used to have a bus bay.
Frustrated commuters have been left stranded for more than 30 minutes in central Auckland for the Link bus service this evening.
Double-amputee Ian Winson has had a fine quashed after he parked his wheelchair-hoist van diagonally across two spaces at a shopping mall.
Commuter trains on Auckland's rail network are back up and running after a breakdown forced three out of four lines to be shut down.
ERoad is now collecting 31 per cent of New Zealand's heavy vehicle road user charges.
I have heard that Fullers is introducing new ferries for the Auckland-Waiheke route.