Joyce not keen on the Auckland CBD rail loop reports the Herald
Posted by David Shearer on March 11th, 2010
Great to read the joint ARTA-KiwiRail press release this morning on the preferred route for the CBD rail loop project.
The cost is roughly similar to the Puhoi-Wellsford road, the benefits are far greater, so why is Joyce not keen on this one? An interesting question. What do you think?
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$5 million to point out the bleeding obvious. Any 19 yr old could say the route would have to follow the line of existing roads !! Duh
No doubt their next recommendation is to spend another $20 mill on another ’study’.
Too late.. it is.
The next decision should be which tunnelling machine to buy. But no the next 10 years will be spent creating more paperwork and all we will have to show will be a line on the map and double the costs
I thought Joyce was working on behalf of the trucking industry so way are you surprised?
He would be loopy not to consider the train route
Good point Bob. I certainly can’t think of any other explanation.
Does Joyce have a beach house up north somewhere?
Roads roads roads, it breaks my heart.
I think it is a no brainer. Do we have a transport project that should be electrified and increases Britomart’s capacity by 24 million trips a year?
Or do we have a holiday road that will cause people to drive further and burn up more petroleum?
In 20 years time which one would do you think our children would have wanted us to choose?
Good on ARTA for coming up with this. I wonder how many of its directors will make the new authority.
Joyce was quoted yesterday
“Asked by the Herald why he could not allow the existing Auckland Regional Transport Authority to keep operating until the new Auckland Council was able to appoint its own directors, he said that would risk losing momentum in the vital transport realm.
“You’ve got to get on and do it, otherwise it will fall out of the rest of the structure.”
Transport is clearly a priority, sadly many Aucklander’s think that transport means more than just more roads.
Tracey, and scrapping ARTA for a brand new agency with a new bunch of directors will not ‘risk losing momentum’? How do these tories continually get away with this nonsense?
I dont know, then I also never understood Aucklanders voting Banks back in…