I was on New Zealand Transport Agency (NZTA) when the National Party last came into power. The new Minister of Transport, Steven Joyce, handed us a shopping list called “Roads of National Significance”. This was a mis-description. It should have been labelled “Marginal seats retention … [Read more...]
Public Private Partnerships were promoted as a panacea and they aren’t always:
Transmission Gully should perhaps be renamed “Transmission-to-what”. This project looks like it really is in trouble. It was imposed on NZTA by Steven Joyce when he was Minister of Everything. I was on NZTA when Minister Joyce was pushing the NZTA Board really hard to approve it. I enquired had … [Read more...]
Are Electric aeroplanes part of our tourism future:
Following on from the talk a couple of weeks ago by Gary Freedman of Electric Air, an article popped up in the Guardian this week which attracted my attention. … [Read more...]
Last Week Gary Freedman on Electric Planes
It was a pleasure to hear Gary Freedman, who is English rather than the American I announced him to be last week. Having listened to Gary the whole area of electric planes is such an amazing opportunity for Christchurch, and New Zealand. In this City we have amazing engineering facilities, … [Read more...]
Zone 0
At the Transportation Conference, I presented on "Zone 0", the proposal to make buses free within the Four Avenues for Metrocard holders. This caused quite some debate, with a lot of one-on-one follow up. My peers can see that this makes a lot more sense than reinstating the Shuttle. Zone 0 … [Read more...]
Axel writes 17 March 2020
Garry's away; Axel's having a crack at putting a newsletter together This week, we had the 2020 Transportation Conference in Christchurch. It's the premier event for the industry and it's been going for a few decades. A good 200 people came together for a three-day gathering in our town hall. The … [Read more...]
A challenge by Axel Wilke:
Axel Wilke, transport planner - now walking fit again What’s my outlook for the 2020s? I predict the overriding experience will be effects brought about by climate change. Will it get too hot for us? Nope. Will the weather get too wild? Maybe. What about wildfires? Maybe, but nothing at the scale … [Read more...]
St Albans Roading meeting this week:
I received this from Mark Wilson. Also attached are the minutes of the last meeting. Here is Mark’s message: Hello fellow community members and motivated people of Christchurch To recap what’s been happening... The SARA community discussion (19th Feb) regarding the effects of the motorway … [Read more...]
This Weeks Speaker Jon Shaw
This week’s speaker is Jon Shaw who is Professor and Head of Geography at the University of Plymouth, UK. He has written and / or edited nine books on various aspects of transport policy and governance, the most recent of which are Transport Matters (2019) which brought together 27 … [Read more...]
Response to Ken McAnergney:
At the start of the session last week my old mate, Ken McAnergney, asked if he could have a minute to speak. I agreed as he had to leave early to feed some poor souls some mutton birds at home. I hope they lived to tell the tale. Ken’s address to those present was a chance for him to berate … [Read more...]
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