Posts by Joshua Arbury
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He has a Gold Card?
Gold-cards are only valid after 9am. This was before.
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Ontrack have the designation. NZTA would only be able to build within their designation if Ontrack agree to it.
So either Steven Joyce put the hard word on Ontrack, or they're just being screwed.
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I am guessing that this bill is being passed under urgency as otherwise there'd not be enough time for the transition board to do all its work before the 2010 election.
However, there are some big issues with it:
1) It does create a fait accompli situation where an "Auckland Council" is locked in as an entity, which limits the options available in part 2 of the Auckland reorganisation.
2) The transition board seems to have very little oversight of it, and will be able to limit what councils can to do a pretty extreme extent.
I'm not a fan of urgency, but at the same time I feel suspicious that even bills that go to a select committee won't end up actually having much changed from the input of public submissions. I await to be hopefully proven wrong with regards to the RMA Amendment bill.
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Wow we finally see these Auckland bills:
Bill 1 - Passing under urgency at the moment:
http://www.legislation.govt.nz/bill/government/2009/0035-1/latest/DLM2044501.html?search=ts_bill_local+government_resel&sr=1Bill 2 - Higher level governance structure stuff:
http://www.legislation.govt.nz/bill/government/2009/0036-1/latest/DLM2044901.html?search=ts_bill_local+government_resel&sr=1 -
Does that mean the cost saving comes from using the rail designation, and then if the rail corridor is built, they'll have to buy out the houses down one side of Hendon Ave?
Seems pretty dodgy, lump the costs onto Ontrack to keep within that $1.4 billion price tag.
By the way, the CBD rail loop costs around $1.4 billion - time for a comparative cost-benefit analysis perhaps?
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Alan Wood Reserve cross-section: http://www.transit.govt.nz/projects/waterviewconnection/gallery/maps/130509-Alan-wood-reserve-x-section.pdf
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Traffic management of Great North Road will be interesting. Perhaps a temporary realignment of the road might be necessary while the tunnel is being built?
And yup, got out 3 submissions :-)
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Didn't Mt Roskill SH20 stray into the Avondale-Southdown rail designation, but that was OK because enough room was left for a future railway line.
One would assume/hope that the same process happens here.
Duncan, yup Alan Wood Reserve is gone. We can look forward to a motorway out the window.
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Yes Fletcher, it will be a traffic management nightmare to build a motorway under one of Auckland's busiest arterial roads.
And the ironic thing is that the very same motorway won't actually relive congestion on the road above it!
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One would imagine that Ontrack would demand that their rail designation not be screwed with. Therefore NZTA would need to ensure that a railway line could be put through.
That may mean building the motorway in a way that stays outside the rail designation (or only goes within it in a small enough way to not sacrifice the ability for two rail tracks to go through it) or that may mean building the motorway in the rail corridor but assisting Ontrack in designating land to "make up for it". I'm not sure how that works legally though, as you can't designate for "off-setting".