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    • LGWM’s MRT Option Costs look very suspect
      • LGWM was made to release their Mass Rapid Transit Option Capital Cost Breakdown This reveals some very questionable cost estimates in these options Of special concern is the apparent cost inflation of the Bus Rapid Transit Option Very quietly, Let’s Get Wellington Moving releases the MRT Option Capital Costs On the 6th of June 2022, Lets Get Wellington Moving (LGWM) released the high level Capital Cost breakdown for the four options in its Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) Project.… Read more ...

    • How to Fix a Transport Business Case for Rail – Part 1 Jack Up the Rail Option BCR
      • The SKM Stage 3 Report recommended keeping the Johnsonville Line because no bus Scenario had a better Benefit Cost Ratio But the SKM Stage 3 Report recommended “Base Case” excluded the cost of buying any replacement EMU trains and other costs as well Excluding these costs hid that the Bus-On-Street Scenario had the best Benefit Cost Ratio This post follows The North Wellington Public Transport Study (2006) which is the introduction this series of posts on “How to Fix a Transport Business Case for Rail” and will focus on how the “Do Minimum” Rail Base Case Benefit Cost Ratio was fixed in the SKM Stage 3 Report to help it come first.… Read more ...

    • How to Fix a Transport Business Case for Rail – Part 2 Sink the Bus Option BCR
      • The SKM Stage 3 Report recommended keeping the Johnsonville Line because no bus Scenario had a better Benefit Cost Ratio (BCR) But the SKM Stage 3 Report included tens of millions in costs in the Bus-On-Street that were not required to implement this Scenario Including these costs hid that the Bus-On-Street Scenario had the best BCR This is the 3rd in this series of posts on “How to Fix a Transport Business Case for Rail” and it is recommended that the introduction post, The North Wellington Public Transport Study (2006) and then How to Fix a Transport Business Case for Rail – Part 1 Jack Up the Rail Option BCR are read first to provide context.… Read more ...

    • The North Wellington Public Transport Study (2006)
      • In 2006 the North Wellington PT Study considered four “Scenarios” with the most popular and effective solution being converting the line into a Busway but both TollRail and the Labour government wanted to keep the trains. In November the SKM Stage 3 Report recommended a fifth “Base Case” which was just to replace the old English Electric trains with refurbished Ganz-Mavags EMUs.… Read more ...

    • The Golden Mile Project is already a Failure
      • Wellington is growing and committed to increased use of public transport But the Golden Mile Project will not improve bus capacity so how will the 13,000 future bus commuters get to are work? It’s not that LGWM failed to increase bus capacity along the Golden Mile, it’s that they did not even try … Wellington will greatly increase its bus usage Wellington faces serious peak time congestion mainly because we so much employment based in our CBD. … Read more ...

    • Wellington’s Huge Commuter Tide
      • Wellington is an unusual city due to a huge portion of jobs being in the CBD We experience serious “tidal” congestion due to the huge morning inflow of commuters into the CBD and then out from CBD in the evening The peak time pressure on the Golden Mile is huge but otherwise Wellington is quite an accessible city One could rightly say that every city is different but, on the spectrum of city characteristics, Wellington City is unusual in a number of ways.… Read more ...

    • How many buses can a CBD street handle?
      • * For most areas in New Zealand cities the most common alternative to driving is to take bus public transport * But NZ Transport planners keep assuming buses have limited capacity and so we must to spend billions on building rail and light rail lines to the city CBD * Transport planning best practice says streets can support much higher volumes of buses.… Read more ...

    • The Lets Get Wellington Moving Commuter Numbers
      • How many Commuters will a future Wellington’s have and what Mode will they be using? * Lets Get Wellington Moving expects about 17,000 more peak hour commuters will travel into the CBD by 2036 * But there’s a problem because the Wellington City Council predicts many more future residents and so this may mean over 35,000 more commuters * The commitment to handle the majority of future commuter growth by bus and rail public transport means majors increases in the capacity of both are needed Wellington City is facing two huge challenges, how to house more people in a city with the highest housing prices in the country and how to improve transport for all the city’s residents.… Read more ...

    • Wellington City Cheated by GWRC run Public Transport
      • Wellington City has the worst PT services yet pays the highest fares and the highest Transport Rates. * About 20 cents in every dollar of fare paid by Wellington City Bus riders actually goes to help fund poorly used bus services in the rest of region * About 40 cents in every dollar paid by Wellington City, Lower Hutt City and Porirua city residential ratepayers goes to subsidise expensive rail and poorly used bus services in Upper Hutt, Kapiti and especially the Wairarapa * In 2017/18, Wellington City ratepayers outside the CBD paid 20% of the region’s Transport Rates and this more than pays for Wellington City public transport (PT) services. … Read more ...

    • Wellington City and Lower Hutt Cheated by Public Transport Rates
      • * Understanding the funding of bus and rail services is an essential part of understanding the value of spending $301M on bus and rail services to different parts of the Wellington Region * Greater Wellington Regional Council (GWRC) collects about $70M in Transport Rates to help make up the difference between fares and bus/rail costs – but not all ratepayers are being charged equally.… Read more ...

    • Wellington City Cheated by Public Transport Fares
      • * Wellington City Bus Users pay a much higher percentage of the cost of their bus service than the rest of the Greater Wellington Region * This means Wellington City bus users are being overcharged by millions every year to support bus services in other cities * Wellington City bus fares are too high and could be reduced by changing from 3 zones to 2 zones for the city Wellington City has High Public Transport Fares [Note: The information in this post is the basis for the DomPost story “Wellington City bus commuters ‘ripped off’ by new bus network and higher fares” also published today.]… Read more ...

    • Wellington City Cheated by Public Transport Performance
      • * When it is finally working, is the new Wellington bus network better than the previous? * This post compares the pre-July 2018 bus timetables with current timetables, and evidence shows that the new peak bus service is often less frequent and slower than it was before.  … Read more ...

    • GWRC quietly robs Wellington City Residents of Million$
      • The Greater Wellington Regional Council (GWRC) has finalised its Long Term Plan including key decisions on rates funding Regional council final decisions on Transport Rates and rates funding for flood protection mean a multi-million dollar increase in their rates demand for Wellington City … Wellington City residents are worst hit The GWRC will now increase the average Wellington City Household rates bill by over $200/year … and no-one noticed!… Read more ...

    • Winners and losers from the Change in the GWRC Transport Rate
      • The GWRC is changing how the Transport Rates that fund the regions PT service is allocated to ratepayers. They claim that this change means “Hutt Valley, South Wairarapa and Porirua pay a bit less toward public transport than they do now, while residents in Wellington city, Kāpiti and Masterton pay a bit more”.… Read more ...

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