Is a major upgrade of the Mt Albert railway station closer than we thought?

A report released this afternoon warns that NZ’s trade performance will become seriously damaged unless it can accommodate bigger freight ships within five years.
And it says KiwiRail should, as a priority, ensure the $750m government funding earmarked for its turn-around plan is targeted at parts of the rail network that will support those bigger ships.

The Government is pumping $250,000 of research money into trying to solve Auckland’s sea slug problem.

For those following the fate of provincial rail lines, an interesting story in today’s Dominion Post on a meeting about the threatened Napier-Gisborne rail line.

It says that KiwiRail is considering inland ports at Gisborne and Wairoa as it aims to handle the big increase in timber freight expected from those regions.

Good to see that even someone on a $1.75 million base salary humbly queues up for tickets to use the Waiheke ferry

Forget the trains and trying to beat the Auckland traffic.

I have found on Trade me a great way to get around Auckland.

Turners is selling an authentic 1973 Mikoyan-Gurevich Mig-21MF Fighter Jet.