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Commuter rail hopes for greater Christchurch could be back on track after a unanimous decision by Environment Canterbury (ECan) councillors on Wednesday. ECa

Save The Trains Campaign welcomes KiwiRail’s decision to include a daily Auckland-Wellington service in an upcoming market research survey. But campaigners say

It’s taken a while to fully digest the light rail announcement from a couple of weeks ago. As I said at the time, and in quite a few interviews since, I have mi

Following the release of the government’s decision on Light Rail two weeks ago, the Auckland Light Rail team (ALR) released the Indicative Business Case (IBC) u

Light rail is still on the cards for Christchurch but not in the near future, according to a new report. More people would need to live and work near transport

Here at OTCM, layouts are like buses, and turn up at the same time – perhaps one of us working on one inspires the other to do the same thing…. And so it is that no sooner has Oly posted about his latest 4ft endeavour, I’m posting about something a little larger. I was actually …

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Writing in Stuff on February 5, Auckland Mayor Phil Goff claimed light rail is the key to the city ‘’becoming a world-class future-focused Auckland’’. This r

West Auckland’s biggest public transport upgrade has been delayed by up to nine months by Covid-19 and construction hold-ups. The $50 million “pop-up” busway, u

Hamilton has launched an on demand bus service from Hamilton's city centre to Hamilton airport. Busit Flex On Demand airport services is operating from t

A campaign asking the Government and KiwiRail to back the continuation of axed national passenger rail services continues to grow with more than 4,500 people si