Trains and Blogs
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Let’s Get Something Something
- Eye of the Fish
- It’s been a curious start to a new Government and a curious end to an old year. 2023 – don’t want to see that one...
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Cautionary tales out of Auckland light rail: a good thing, being done badly
- Talk Wellington
- Make no mistake, Wellington city needs mass transit. And we’re watching with alarm how Auckland, in trying to get a vital component of its own mass transit system (that their fast-growing city needs ever more desperately), is kicking itself in the leg Just in case anyone listening too closely to certain councillors: there’s no other...
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LGWM Decision at last
- Eye of the Fish
- Transport Minister Michael Wood blindsided Wellington this morning, with an announcement – and a definite decision – that Wellington is going to get Light Rail...
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How to Fix a Transport Business Case for Rail – Part 4 Bait and Switch – Change the Decision for Rail Later
- Wellington Commuter
- In 2006, the SKM Stage 3 Report recommended a Do Minimum “Base Case” based on replacing the old English Electric EMUs with refurbished Ganz-Mavag EMUs. In 2010, the GWRC then announced that new Matangi EMUs would operate on the Johnsonville Line.… Read more ...
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How to Fix a Transport Business Case for Rail – Part 1 Jack Up the Rail Option BCR
- Wellington Commuter
- 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 ...
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Light rail in Auckland: should Wellington be afraid?
- Talk Wellington
- It’s only January and already the blockbuster announcement of the year: finally, grownup-city mass transit for our largest metropolitan centre! But a lot of smart people have made a lot of weird decisions in there… could Wellington experience similar weird? So after an interminable-feeling period of cluster-shemozzle uber-bungle, it was Officially Declared: Auckland will get...
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Light Rail and Fresh Tunnels
- Eye of the Fish
- Let’s not pussyfoot around – Wellington needs a Rapid Transit system and that simply cannot be more buses. And it needs to be Rapid (like the name suggests) so it needs some new direct routes – that means new tunnels. Yes, plural: Tunnels.
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Station to Station
- Eye of the Fish
- Wellington’s main (only?) central Railway Station has been getting a lot of press recently, mostly over the intransigence of the Heritage NZ lobby who are, to be honest, being silly over the heritage of this building. They’ve only just today approved the installation of a pedestrian ramp out the front doors – the disabled have been forced to use the side door for the last several decades. They’re sitting on the approval of installation of the Snapper ticketing terminals because they don’t like the colour. KiwiRail: do it anyway. It needs to be a living piece of heritage, adapting and changing to the times – not preserved in aspic (whatever aspic is).
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Government puts Wellington light rail back on track
- Eye of the Fish
- The Government is getting light rail back on track by involving Wellingtonians in a six-month process to come up with a city-shaping project.
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Art Vandelay
- Eye of the Fish
- Today, a guest post from Art Vandelay, with a potential solution for the route of a Light Rail system through Wellington.Your comments and feedback, welcome below…
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Two vessels broke off a mooring drifted onto rail bridge
- Coastguard Mana
- Operation Details Date/Time: Sun, 28/06/2020 - 08:30 - 10:30 Operation Type: CG Operation (good samaritan) People Assisted: 0 Total Volunteer Hours: 14 Two vessels were "rafted up" on a mooring in the channel. The mooring appears to have broken below the waterline and the vessels were swept onto the rail bridge with the incoming tide. Coastguard Mana were alerted to a Facebook post a member of the public had posted and went to invetigate. After assessing the situation it was decided to get them off quickly to minimise damage and risk to trains. A callout was activated and a number of people responded to tow them off the bridge and into the marina. Vessel Details Length: 10.00m Resources Attendees: Devine Mobiinz CMFF sarge Mark Presling Neil Cornwell zanebublitz CRV's Used: Mana Rescue 1
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Updated terms of carriage for Metlink services
- Sustainable Wellington Transport
- At the 25 March 2015 Strategy and Policy meeting, Greater Wellington adopted a new policy for carriage of children in prams and for foot scooters.
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There just aren’t enough bicycle lockers in Wellington
- Wellington Region Cycleways
- You may be familiar with the style of bike locker that is used across the Wellington rail system. They are double ended, with a plywood divider diagonally across each block, hence what looks like 6 lockers can actually store 12 bikes. You can apply to hire one on a long term basis and here is […]
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$300 million airport extension and Light Rail for free with every second Mt Vic tunnel built…
- Eye of the Fish
- OK – Hear me out here people. There’s been a lot of kerfuffle over a couple of things this week – one is the proposed $43m strengthening of the old Town Hall, and the other is the proposed $300m extension of the airport. First things first : where have those figures come from? Put them [...]
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Basin Reserve, Dufferin Street, Mount Victoria, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6021, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Flyover for Lambton Quay
- Eye of the Fish
- In a surprising piece of breaking news today, we have just heard that the results of the Wellington Public Transport Spine study have been announced, and the end result will no doubt surprise some people. In line with Wellington City Council’s new found love for Flyovers, as approved by Councilor Andy Foster at a recent [...]
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Lambton Quay, Wellington Central, Wellington, 6012, New Zealand/Aotearoa
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Tranzmetro, this is what could be achieved
- Wellington Region Cycleways
- Tranzmetro‘s new Matangi trains have an internal width of about 2.4 metres, and a bike on average is 1.8m long, so parking on a slight angle will give plenty of room for a bike to be stored on a train.
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Light Rail, Heavy Rail, MonoRail
- Eye of the Fish
- Actually: Not Monorail, that should say : Bus. Just when i thought it was safe to dip my fishy fingers back into the water of the war on the waterfront, a new challenge comes along. Yes: its the proposed Transport Spine interim review, and it is proposing 8 options for consideration. You may have read [...]
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Rimutaka Incline Railway Group proposes reinstating steam train to Manhattan’s High Line
- Wellington Region Cycleways
- If you haven’t noticed there’s been a bit of an interesting (and sometimes ugly) debate about the Rimutaka Incline Railway group who want to destroy the Rimutaka Rail Trail for cyclists and their upcoming proposal to the GWRC Cultural and Social Wellbeing Committee.
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Yesterday’s Solution
- Sustainable Wellington Transport
- In 2011, you would think two considerations would be central to transport planning; the need to reduce carbon emissions and dependence on oil. Think again… The New Zealand Transport Agency has released for consultation its scheme for the inner city section (Cobham Drive to Buckle St) of its grand Levin to Wellington Airport superhighway. What the scheme amounts to is a road building extravaganza that reeks of the 1960s and 1970s. The salient point about NZTA’s consultation is that it offers no choice. The key projects including a flyover at the Basin Reserve and a second Mt Victoria Tunnel are a fait accompli. So the public is not given any meaningful options, such as the public transport alternative.
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Basin Reserve, Dufferin Street, Mount Victoria, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6021, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Could the Capital Connection run 3 times a day?
- Wellington Region Cycleways
- Auckland Trains has been discussing putting rail to Hamilton.
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Melling Line Bus Replacement Replacement News
- Wellington Region Cycleways
- Since the cluster-fluff of extending rail service to Waikanae, retimetabling for overcrowding and not introducing the Matangi trains on time, you all probably know by now that the Melling Line trains have been replaced by rail replacement buses, and are leaving from the dreaded platform 9 at Wellington Station.
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Electrification to Waikanae – the importance of trains
- Sustainable Wellington Transport
- Note: The opening of the Waikanae Railway Station was the scene for a major protest about the proposed Kapiti Expressway – those involved say that the Dominion Post has underestimated the number of protesters.
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I’ve changed my mind about light rail
- Eye of the Fish
- Hello and Happy New Year to all of you Eye of the Fish followers.
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Is the Rimutaka Rail trail under threat?
- Wellington Region Cycleways
- I’ve ridden the Rimutaka Rail Trail a few times.
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A Do Nothing for Cyclists Mayor?
- Wellington Region Cycleways
- With the new trains coming the Greater Wellington Regional Council is reviewing its policies for bikes on trains.
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Train problems continue
- Hutt Chick
- I managed to get to work this morning before the train problems started on the Hutt Valley line.
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Use 'em or lose 'em
- The Wellingtonista
- According to a story in the Dom Post today, a Greater Wellington regional council report up for debate this week suggests closing the least-used stations in the region (Muri and Kenepuru stations on the Paraparaumu line).
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Muri Station, Wellington
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Cold Train
- The Wellingtonista
- Wellington's Tranz Metro trains have lately been known for certain carriages with broken heating. It's horrible enough being (relatively) young and only faced with a 30-minute chilly commute. I wouldn't want to be a Paraparam gran making the hour-long trip to Wellington in an unheated carriage. But it seems that while the carriages are slowly being fixed, Trans Metro are also paying attention to,
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Walk the line
- The Wellingtonista
- You don't have to be a trainspotter or J-line commuter to be interested in the redevelopment of the Johnsonville Line (though it undoubtedly helps). In any case, you shouldn't miss your one and only opportunity tomorrow to walk the tracks between Crofton Downs station and the Wadestown crossing loop. Highlights include spectacular views of the gorge and a couple of spooky tunnels to explore.
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The Greens: recyclers extraordinaire
- The Wellingtonista
- This particular Wellingtonista was just down at a protest taking place at the Greater Wellington Regional Council offices. Of course, the GWRC transport plans (PDF) are well worth protesting about: more roads, no light rail? Despite the hundreds (and the great majority) of submissions asking for the opposite?
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