brent efford - light rail transit association - rail penetration of the wellington cbd: the search...
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Brent Efford delivered the presentation at the 2014 New Zealand Rail conference. The 2014 New Zealand Rail conference explored issues that would help to secure the economic development of New Zealand. With a focus on new projects and balanced funding, this event discussed ways to ensure the seamless growth of the next 10 years. For more information about the event, please visit: http://www.informa.com.au/nzrailconference14TRANSCRIPT
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The search for solutions
Brent Efford Light Rail Transit Assn
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9 Lower Hutt, station area c 1900
Upper Hutt, station area c 1890
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Ngauranga
Thorndon
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Kitson steam motor, Christchurch
Kitson steam motor, preserved at Ferrymead, 1968
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17 Lambton Station, closed 1937
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Proposed passenger station
– Kent/Cambridge
terraces
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Settlement follows the trams – Kilbirnie 1908
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Tram track construction, Cuba/Manners intersection, 1904
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Original Hobart double-decker, 1893
Preserved Hobart trams, Glenorchy Transport Museum, 2008
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26 Maori Hill tram – 3’6” gauge, opened 1900
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27 … while 1067 mm gauge still works, after
110 years, in Hong Kong.
Bilbao, Spain – new metre-gauge tramway opened in 2002 with CAF trams…
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33 After the match – 1959
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“In fulfilling our obligations to the NRB, we, the Ministry of
Works, had accepted as inevitable the growth in motor
vehicle numbers and the necessity to provide for them. At the
same time we recognised a need to aim at a balance between
public and private transport facilities …
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…the car, a very convenient mode of transport is, at the
same time, very inefficient and it requires an inordinate
amount of road space in relation to people transported per
hour. … The cost of the rail subway was assessed at up to
20% below the cost of constructing the Motorway ”.
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D Bruce Dallas ‘Wellington Urban Motorway, Concepts and Inception 1958 – 1960s, The Haunting Spectre of the Might-Have-Been’ paper presented to the annual conference of the Institution of Professional Engineers, 1992
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“It was assumed that the availability of this utility, with 6
stations between Thorndon and the terminus, including 2
serving the CBD, would tend to minimise rather than
encourage the use of the private car and, apart from other
consequential benefits, reduce demand on roading funds….
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“One of the 1959/60 reasons for the railway extension preceding
Motorway construction related to land use. Much of the area it
would serve was ripe for re-development. Shopping centres and
office blocks could have been built close to or above railway
stations. Leaving an extension decision to the indefinite future
meant re-development was likely to follow a different pattern and
the ready-made business that NZR would badly need would be
dispersed elsewhere.”
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“The location of the
Railway Station on
the northern edge of
the CBD is a major
deterrent to rail use
in comparison with
the use of a car,
particularly for
shorter distance
travellers.”
De Leuw Cather 1963
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“We consider it
extremely important
that the recommended
railway extensions into
the Wellington central
area be proceeded
with at an early date to
ensure that the
planned highway
capacities are not
exceeded”
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“It is sometimes claimed that commuters PREFER to travel
by car. This will occasion no surprise in Wellington where a
highly successful disincentive has been devised, or perhaps I
should say, allowed to remain, to deter city-bound travellers
from the north who might otherwise use public transport. …
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“Having collected passengers along three branch lines,
NZR dumps them out on the fringe of the CBD. Thence, they
have become resigned to trudging off along the Quays in the
bracing climate or, via grim and draughty subways and
stairways, wait their turn on an open pavement to pay
another fare and trundle at 10 km/h to a destination in the
City centre or beyond.
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Dallas, IPENZ, 1992
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“… A visionary expansion of the untidy existing system could see light rail run on from the northern line at the station along Stout St, the Lambton Quay bus lanes to Willis St, and through Manners Mall, with a terminus in Courtenay Place. A long-term expansion to the airport would make real sense. … The light rail proposal is a sensible option and needs now to be propelled to the front of the transport agenda.” Evening Post editorial 23/11/93
Evening Post 19/11/93
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“The location of the Railway Station on the
northern edge of the CBD is a major deterrent
to rail use in comparison with the use of a car,
particularly for shorter distance travellers.”
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"The Wellington proposal to re-equip the Johnsonville line
with light rail vehicles and to connect through to the airport
was seen to be an excellent plan. The Johnsonville units
were very aged, a matter which had to be addressed very
soon. NZRL would like to take part in any plan such as light
rail developments."
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Summary of a speech by Ed Burkhardt to the Chartered Institute of Transport in Wellington, 14 February 1995
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“The overall study objective is to assess the feasibility and merits of a range of longer-term options for providing a high frequency and high quality public transport system between the Wellington Railway Station and the Wellington Regional Hospital, including possible connections to the north and south-east, to support the urban intensification of this growth corridor.” Terms of Reference document, March 2011
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Rail system is the PT “trunk” for 75% of the metro
population
Carries 70% of the total PT passenger/km
Covers 92% of the SH1+2 transport corridor
54 GWRC PT Opex to 31/12/12 Last available pax/km stats
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Factoid: introducing through tram-train services in Karlsruhe increased patronage by from 43% to 625%
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AECOM
Wellington Public Transport Spine Study
Option Evaluation Results -
16 June 2013 Commercial-in-Confidence
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Figure 5 Light Rail Transit option
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3
2/10 – “not achieved”!
Where is the depot??
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Bifurcated route not = Growth Spine
Bad location for rail line
Unnecessary tunnel
Bad median design
Convoluted route Bad location for a terminus
No railway connection
Follows the Golden Mile
West LQ track location
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Prof Peter Newman, email 19/8/13
See also: http://sustainablecities.org.nz/2013/08/are-we-turning-the-corner-on-global-sustainability/
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58 The Douglas – Cockburn RLR proposal, Track & Signal, Summer 2014
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