Nicolas Reid

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@StuartBDonovan @Pen_ultimate__ @totaraforest The map shows Hibiscus Coast to Pukekohe, so it's even a little bit more than that.

Public transport across Tāmaki Makaurau is actually much better than most people think.

@Mark833 @LinkedIn Newton? You mean the place that was basically destroyed to build the motorway junction, the one I’m suggesting gets rebuilt?

@Nicolas_Reid @LinkedIn The city centre needs to be moved. The original settlers recognised newton for the town center for a reason. That area should be redeveloped for the city centre. The current centre needs to be housing and transport focused on exiting rather than entering that area.

Check out my latest article: Should Auckland demolish Spaghetti Junction? I make a not-entirely-serious case for ripping out Spaghetti Junction in Auckland, replacing it with a motorway tunnel, and redeveloping above it instead linkedin.com/pulse/should-a… via @LinkedIn

@RussellClarkNZ @LinkedIn Yes, but this is mostly sedimentary rock with a short section under (not through) the Mt Eden basalt flow.

@Nicolas_Reid @LinkedIn has technology improved enough to break through volcanic rock?

@Tiare_MP @LinkedIn No, the port would still have access to the motorways via Grafton gully and the ring road.

@Nicolas_Reid @LinkedIn I imagine this would also be contingent on removing the port?

@urbanistfromwhk Real patriots sit in the freedom queue, and laugh at the wokeists passing by.

Check out my latest article: Does the New Zealand rail network actually serve New Zealanders? I looked into data on how many kiwis might be able to travel by train… if we ran more than a handful of them each week. linkedin.com/pulse/does-new… via @LinkedIn

TIL that Atlanta, Georgia was founded as a rail terminus and named after a railway!

@EsqHardy @the_transit_guy …and Toronto to Miami

@EsqHardy @the_transit_guy If you laid Berlin’s direct rail connections over Atlanta the routes would stretch from Houston to New York.

This is the main train station for a metro with a smaller population than Atlanta’s, btw.

@RussHignett @KeebaFugu @the_transit_guy All of Spandau and Charlottenburg are within 20 mins of Olympiastadion, so plenty of bar and pub options. And people do ‘tailgate’ in the grounds around the stadium, just without the tailgates.

@KeebaFugu @the_transit_guy I don’t believe there are even 3 proper bars within a 20 min walk from Olympiastadion. Can you name any (and I mean a proper bar)? Tailgating and cars are part of American culture. I appreciate the differences and don’t desire that they be the same all over the world.

Arrowhead Stadium and Berlin's Olympiastadion share similar capacities as World Cup venues. Yet Arrowhead has 19,000 parking spaces served by one local bus, while Olympiastadion has 660 spaces and three rapid train stations. We are truly not ready for the World Cup.

@spidertastica @kentslundberg If you can't understand that then look to Canberra, Newcastle or Gold Coast, all much smaller than Auckland and all built new surface light rail lines for the similar costs of $150m to $250m per kilometre. They also have traffic management

@Nicolas_Reid @kentslundberg That’s Sydney big difference Sydney’s population is the whole of NZs 40% of any project cost in NZ is traffic management

what they took from us

@spidertastica @kentslundberg Yes because tunneling and underground stations are extremely expensive, which is why a surface line was a much cheaper option. Take Sydney LRT for example: 12km track, 19 stations, depot and 60 trains for $3.1b.

@Nicolas_Reid @kentslundberg $6bn 🤣🤣🤣🤣 Yeah right then CRL is roughly that for a 3.4km twin tunnel Surface line more like $15bn+

@spidertastica @kentslundberg $6b for the surface line. Yes ratepayers and taxpayers, the same people that pay for all transport.

@Nicolas_Reid @kentslundberg Even the other option was going to be $15bn+ who was going to pay for it ? Ratepayers 🤦🏻

@spidertastica @kentslundberg That’s his point. They took away the reasonable surface light rail plan and turned it into an infeasibly expensive $29b metro plan.

@kentslundberg Fuck off you gimp was gonna cost upto $29bn

@kentslundberg Narrower too

In many ways George St is a more difficult light rail corridor than Queen St. It has parking garages and hotel parking access which required concessions. Also the cross streets have a lot of traffic from the close-in motorways.

@urbanistfromwhk You know at the Vasa museum they have a gallery of Lego models of other terrible shipwrecks and the Rena is one of them.

I took a ride on a giant gondola in Taipei, and wrote some thoughts on the experience of using cableways for public transit. Check out my latest article: Gondolas for mass transit? linkedin.com/pulse/gondolas… via @LinkedIn