The Campaign For Better Transport

Mike Lee pretty much hits the nail on the head with CCO’s and Auckland Transport:

According to the explanatory note to the third bill currently being deliberated by the select committee, the Super City was intended to “create one Auckland, which has strong regional governance, integrated decision making, greater community engagement and improved value for money”.

But what has become quite obvious is that Auckland isn’t getting this at all.

He bullet points the unacceptable features of Auckland Transport: Read the rest of this entry »

Late last year the Auckland Transport Authority (now called Auckland Transport) structure was announced. Most alarming was the “Major Roading Projects” department, with no equivalent department for public transport infrastructure.

It seems the Transition Authority have recognised this, and the title has been changed to “Major Projects and PMO”. The explanation given is “Not all major projects will be roading, and the PMO will be an important part of this group.”  Hard to understand why this obvious shortcoming wasn’t spotted sooner!

The new organisational chart is below.  Click the image for a larger version.

Submissions close tomorrow for the Local Government (Auckland Law Reform) Bill.

The CBT is very concerned that the current structure of the Bill will transfer much of the power over transport in Auckland away from elected local and regional politicians, towards unelected transport officials and central government.

Our full submission is here, and the summary is below the fold…

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