The New Zealand Herald reports that both fuel tax and road user charges will increase tomorrow, as the Government increases petrol excise by 3.75c per litre. Road User Charges (RUCs) will increase an average of 7% tomorrow as well. An interesting quote: drivers of small diesel cars and other vehicles […]
Monthly Archives: September 2009
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The Howick and Pakuranga Times reports that construction of the new branch from the Southern Line (NIMT) to central Manukau City is now well underway. http://www.times.co.nz/cms/news/2009/09/all_steam_ahead_on_new_link.php
The Press reports that Minister of Transport, Steven Joyce, is backing the largely tourist-oriented TranzAlpine long-distance passenger train, which runs daily from Christchurch to Greymouth.
On Radio NZ this morning: Mainfreight says it will double the amount it spends moving cargo on the railways if the Government changes KiwiRail to a more commercial model. The freight company spends more than $20 million per year on rail, but says it needs more rail services to be […]
The Herald’s Editorial asserting that the ARC’s transport plan “ignores reality” for its focus on public transport is remarkable for its poor grasp of what current realities actually are. The reality is that significant roading projects such as the revised $1.8bn Waterview extension and the $2bn+ Puhoi to Wellsford motorway […]
Good to see the Regional Transport Committee isn’t blindly accepting the Government priority on Roads of National Significance. The Herald reports: One of seven Government “roads of national significance”, a $2.3 billion highway north of Auckland, has been placed at the bottom of a list of regional transport priorities. The […]
An article in the NZ Herald on Wednesday looked at the need for a change in vision regarding New Zealand’s transport planning. Mr Gunstan, a commercial manager for the Marsden Pt oil refinery before becoming a fulltime “futurist strategist”, advised planners to break free of incremental thinking wedded to the […]
CBT’s Jon Reeves found this article in The Age yesterday, causing us to wonder when New Zealand will start listening to public tranport advice from overseas studies? Somehow we seem to think we are different and that even if more roads don’t work for other countries, they will still work here. The Age […]