Light rail won’t run just to the airport – it also unlocks West Auckland

Lost in last week’s debate about light rail to the airport was another proposal: a Northwest Light Rail line. Harriet Gale from Greater Auckland explains. Just over a week ago Jacinda Ardern announced Labour’s new Auckland transport policy. All the talk was about light rail to the airport, but there were many other components, and … Read more

What the hell went wrong with Parnell Station?

It should be one of inner-city Auckland’s most-used stations, but the newly opened Parnell Station is already looking like a lame duck. So what went wrong? One word: Disneyland. Harriet Gale explains. This post was first published on Greater Auckland. A friend inspired this post with her attempt to use Parnell Station recently. She phoned … Read more

The third main: why is a $58m rail option being ignored while a $1.4 billion road rolls on?

The Official Information Act is being badly undermined and our transport planning system is broken. Researcher Harriet Gale reports on the nonsense at the heart of both problems. Sir Geoffrey Palmer has written just recently about the failure of the Official Information Act to provide true government transparency. He noted that as a country we … Read more