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Victoria Tunnel Project Info Sessions

Posted by Jon C in tunnelNov 21st, 2009 | 5 Comments
As work gets underway on the St Mary’s Bay SH1 lanes near the Auckland Harbour bridge Fanshawe St exit as part of the Victoria Park tunnel project, the transport agency is to host drop-in information sessions about the project so you can get your questions answered. They will next Saturday (Nov 28) from 11am to 2pm and the following Monday (Nov 30) -  two sessions from noon to 2pm and 5pm to 7pm. They will at the Transport Agency’s tunnel project office  at 100 Beaumont Street, which near the Air NZ building at the far Victoria Park end of Fanshawe St – an office still covered...
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$5m “Transparent” Bridge To Cross Harbour Bridge

Posted by Jon C in tunnelNov 17th, 2009 | 21 Comments
A footbridge across ten lanes of the Auckland Harbour Bridge is included in the Victoria Park tunnel project. And the latest idea talks about a of a kind of part transparent, part metallic bridge one costing between $3m and $5m that will become known as a “Gateway To Auckland.” I can’t work out if this is totally nuts or, for a rare Auckland moment, a brilliant idea. In the transport agency’s presentations, it included this artist’s impression of the sort of footbridge the agency had in mind: But now The Aucklander newspaper has published this latest transport agency...
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Harbour Bridge Speed Restrictions Start Sunday (& other weekend disruptions)

Posted by Jon C in tunnelNov 12th, 2009 | No Comments
Speed restrictions on the Auckland Harbour Bridge approaches come into effect on Sunday night. Workers will be out in force from then from the south end of the Auckland Harbour Bridge to Fanshawe Street so a speed limit of 70km/h will apply and lane widths will be reduced. Drivers are also asked to choose their correct south bound lane early after leaving the harbour bridge to help reduce the risk of congestion. The transport agency says it will try to keep all lanes open during the day throughout the working week but there’ll be some work-related lane closures at night or on weekends when traffic...
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After Queens Wharf, Less Haste Needed On CBD Loop Plan

Posted by Jon C in CBD rail loop, tunnelOct 27th, 2009 | 7 Comments
Britomart tunnel | William M The appalling unsatisfactory mess we are left with from the final Queens Wharf designs contest, is another reminder that it’s important we get the present major rail projects right the first time. The pattern of Auckland short-changing major projects by just rushing into something has already left us with a harbour bridge that the original government said only needed to be a few lanes (but later needed clip-ons and now a second crossing)  and the Britomart tunnel, that, as  we often mention, had such short-sighted planning, we have only one line in and one out and...
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Auckland City Council Support For A Rail Harbour Tunnel

Posted by Jon C in Auckland City, Auckland Harbour Bridge 50th, tunnelJun 7th, 2009 | No Comments
Auckland City Councillors are moving towards support for rail to be part of a second Auckland harbour crossing. THEY GET IT: Sydney bridge already has a rail service (Photo credit below) NO BRAINER:This was the opening of Sydney's bridge Council’s senior transport planner will report to the council transport committee on Thursday about moves to protect the latest proposed route for a second crossing -   tunnels which would include rail. The route being progressed by NZTA and Ontrack is for a set of twin general traffic tunnels with three lanes each, running between Esmonde Rd / Onewa...
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ARC member widens the thinking on an inner Auckland rail tunnel

Posted by Jon C in Proposals, tunnelJan 13th, 2009 | No Comments
Critical questions about the proposed inner city rail tunnel have been raised by the former chairman of Auckland’s two regional transport committees, ARC member Joel Cayford and they widen the thinking of what we have heard so far. Dr Cayford’s thinking deserves careful consideration before the Ontrack present plan for a tunnel gets committed. Indeed he says it’s essential, that a regionally agreed plan for the long – term development of the Auckland CBD rail network is prepared. He says a public process is needed for this but to date, there has been very little public discussion...
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