Trains / July 2011
August 2011 | June 2011-
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Replacement Parts For Matangi
- Auckland Trains
- KiwiRail reports that replacement auxiliary power units are being freighted to Wellington to overcome the fault which led to new Matangi Metro passenger units being briefly withdrawn from service.
- Accepted from Auckland Trains » Wellington
- Tagged as:
- matangi-trains
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Price Hike For RWC
- Auckland Trains
- Taking long distance trains to the RWC is not going to be cheap.
- Accepted from Auckland Trains » Wellington
- Tagged as:
- rugby-world-cup
- trains
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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.
- Accepted from Sustainable Wellington Transport posts
- Tagged as:
- light-rail
- basin-reserve-flyover
- consultation
Basin Reserve, Dufferin Street, Mount Victoria, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6021, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Matangi’s Slow Rollout
- Auckland Trains
- By the end of this week 40% of the new Matangi fleet will have arrived in Wellington. The rollout of the Wellington trains is still a very long drawn out affair. They are operating on the Hutt line at peak times. 15 2-car units are in Wellington. Of those, 9 2-car units are in service. The rest are being used for training. 3 more 2-car units are about to arrive by ship.
- Submitted by tonytw1
- Tagged as:
- matangi-trains
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Nice Idea But Doesn’t Fly
- Auckland Trains
- An intriguing public transport experiment in Wellington sounded as if it might work but isn’t going well.
- Submitted by tonytw1
- Automatically tagged as:
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What About Light Rail?
- Architectural Centre Inc
- I lived in Szczecin, Poland, until I was 14. I had family in other large centers in Poland. All those cities had something in common—extensive and very well utilised light rail networks. The trams were a different colour in each city, usually coincident with the colours of the city’s coat of arms. Even at the lowest pointduring the communist regime when the people were at their poorest and the country was in a huge debt the trams were going strong, taking commuters to work, home, school, parks, shopping (when there was something to buy, anything really would do). I certainly don’t remember anyone not being able to afford to use the tram service.
- Submitted by tonytw1
- Tagged as:
- light-rail
- basin-reserve-flyover
Basin Reserve, Dufferin Street, Mount Victoria, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6021, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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