Liberty Scott

When you look at Len Brown's plans for spending a fortune on transport infrastructure in Auckland and his plans to charge those using i...

Yes that's what the Green/ACT government thinks. The headline is "Spatial Plan will ensure economic growth for Auckland". T...

If you want an example of why politics should be taken out of the sphere of transport then Len Brown’s policies provide some...

Clap - clap - clap. Margaret Thatcher once commented about how horrified she was in the 1970s when a senior Conservative MP expressed the v...

Now I've been damning of the creation of the Auckland mega city consistently. Quite simply, making councils in Auckland merge, whilst ...

Phil Twyford, ( Labour's list MP with a non-existent profile ) says of the government's Auckland mega council plans: "Council-c...

With the NZ Herald reporting Local Government Minister Rodney Hide unable to get National Party support to constrain the powers of local au...

Again, rare for me to agree with Idiot Savant , but whilst NZ Bus services are suspended due to strike action, it shouldn't be getting s...

One of the core philosophies of the Auckland Regional Council's planning approach for the region is intensification. It believes it is ...

Brian Rudman has a cheek to call the Minister of Transport an ideologue when he is one of the true believers of the Auckland rail religion....

While the outgoing Chair of the ARC, Mike Lee, plays politics (he is an Alliance member from way back) in demanding the government cough u...

Matthew Dearnaley at the NZ Herald has written a report on how construction is about to start on the first new rail line (not widening) in ...

You see the government hasn't yet robbed you to pay for trains 99% of you will never ride on, and which will likely run at a loss throug...

No race based seats in the Auckland supercity so says the NZ Herald. The reasons given? - Inconsistent with National Party policy on the pa...

Labour’s latest leftwing pinup MP Phil Twyford has introduced a bill to require a referendum for any privatisation of Auckland local govern...

Number 1 : ARC wants to force people to pay for a tourist tram. It is already going to waste Auckland ratepayers' money on a "fe...

Well the NZ Herald gives a great example : "Chris Darby, North Shore City's representative on the Regional Transport Committee, ack...

I note the image from this post on the Standard the specious claim that the new Auckland supercity (which I oppose) excludes Maori. Not havi...

A group of transport fanatics are proposing that Aucklanders break the law and walk and cycle along a motorway this Sunday. They of cours...

That's Brian Rudman's latest piece of genius . He is pleased that public transport patronage went up a fair bit in the last nine m...