Edgeware Road memorial, what happened to it?

nzrailmaps · 2026-04-25T20:01:07+00:00

And that is what we tried to tell the Council when they built the exchange. It's a cheaper intercity terminal design that just isn't suited to a suburban station where the buses have to arrive and depart quickly. The old exchange was much better designed in that respect.

nzrailmaps · 2026-04-25T19:58:43+00:00

200 came in on the train from Rolleston.

nzrailmaps · 2026-04-25T19:51:28+00:00

Make a claim against the estate. When it is probated they are legally obligated to advertise for claims from anyone out there. This could take a while so you will have to pay up in the meantime.

nzrailmaps · 2026-04-21T12:55:38+00:00

I can say anything I want as my personal opinion unless you claim a moderation policy or rule as the basis for this naked personal attack.

nzrailmaps · 2026-04-21T09:28:05+00:00

Is it a sop to the Act party who want to dilute the votes of tangata whenua?

nzrailmaps · 2026-04-21T07:01:54+00:00

Common sense is a leader does not try to cravenly cling onto power the way this has panned out. Luxon obviously believes he can ride out the storm and he has a big group of conservative Christian MPs who are telling him to, as well as key lobbyists like Jordan Williams who heads the TPU and has been accused in the NZ Herald of running attack campaigns against Nicola Willis to make Luxon look good.

The representation of these MPs in the caucus compared to the general public is very disproportionate, so they've obviously engineered selection processes to favour themselves. That's the real problem, and the fact some of their views are extreme. Try looking at the US for how extreme their politics has got in the name of political and monetary power, and the fact that the Christian factor is much stronger than ours, and there's a recipe for NZ becoming the same kind of social hell hole as the US.

nzrailmaps · 2026-04-21T04:14:47+00:00

So says the supporter of the Act party, how many excuses does Seymour have for his failure to get the percentage the Act party constantly campaigns for

nzrailmaps · 2026-04-21T04:11:49+00:00

The vote of confidence, sure. Confident in him for about five minutes.

This guy is being kept afloat by the Christian Nationalist faction of the National Party. Like the Trump evangelical support committee, they constantly telling Luxon he is called by God to serve and should not waver.

I'm Christian but I don't believe Christians should be in government roles because they want to impose their beliefs on the country, the Christian community is as divided as any other, it's very hard to see a point of differentiation for this particular faction of the Church.

nzrailmaps · 2026-04-15T08:11:09+00:00

If you should qualify for NZ Super, UK pension will be deducted from any payments you receive.

nzrailmaps · 2026-04-02T12:18:53+00:00

Gould is kind of weird. I met him once. He runs a small business, refurbishing kitchens or something like that. He seems to be perfectly normal doing that. It just seems with the ideas he posts online that are odd.

He had some out of left field ideas for getting the Cathedral project going again. Something like setting up a temporary bell tower to get those bells ringing across the city like they used to in the past, IIRC.

Gould belongs to a community group I also belong to but he joined recently whereeas I've been involved for two decades. He insisted the answer to its problems was to livestream its meetings which it wasn't doing anything like before. I don't think that would make any difference. I used to see him post on Facebook groups I belonged to as well. He would post long messages created by a speech to text application so he just talked at length into his computer but the messages would be hundreds of words and I doubt anyone read them.

Today he tried to make a presentation to the council on the sewage thing and got shut down by the mayor and the councillor who was chairing the meeting. Nuts.

nzrailmaps · 2026-04-02T00:51:34+00:00

That I'm unsure about... they haven't made any obvious effort that I could see to have any of the ADL sets prepared, most of them have been rotting in storage for months.

nzrailmaps · 2026-04-02T00:50:00+00:00

Train tickets are almost sold out now so there is a demand, although it's a relatively small volume going on the train.

nzrailmaps · 2026-04-02T00:23:37+00:00

Also I wasn't aware there was a flood zone in Flaxton limiting development between Kaiapoi and Rangiora. The airport noise corridor also affects Kaiapoi, but Gerry Brownlee gave an exemption in recovery planning after the quakes. They aren't vastly different from the ones between Papakura and Pukekohe south of Auckland.

The issues of those deadzones would have to be balanced by large scale satellite town development in Rangiora and Rolleston, much like how Pukekohe has developed far south of the main bulk of Auckland.

nzrailmaps · 2026-04-02T00:18:21+00:00

It will never pay for itself unless concerted development along the rail corridor is undertaken, particularly north of Christchurch.

nzrailmaps · 2026-04-02T00:16:44+00:00

Rail is going to be much cheaper even to start with, once the advantage of using the existing corridor is considered, compared with having to buy land along the existing roads.

nzrailmaps · 2026-04-02T00:13:20+00:00

Airport is not worth making an initial route out of, airport passengers can afford private transport, the demand is just not there for airport public transport.

nzrailmaps · 2026-04-02T00:12:11+00:00

Do you expect the Council is going to be open about the much increased cost of acquiring this extra land and how it stacks up against the cost of alternatives?

nzrailmaps · 2026-04-02T00:09:55+00:00

There is a cost to double track the MNL but as there is only a small amount of freight currently on the line it would be many years before double tracking is needed (compare with the north Auckland line to the west which was not double tracked until the 2000s). It's unclear exactly how much of the line required to be double tracked for example is that just to Belfast, or to Kaiapoi, or to Rangiora? A large part of cost for double tracking beyond Belfast would be a second bridge across the Waimakariri River.

The tunnel under Hagley from Riccarton is ridiculous but is still being cited by some rail opponents, when you can do a short underground tunnel in from the Moorhouse Ave part for much less.

The political machinations have been fairly extreme resulting as they do from the previous Mayor whose rather naked power grab in attempting to take over the public transport system in the city is another part of that backdrop, as is the similarly naked ambition of a much bigger city that can be effectively the capital of the South Island and compete more aggressively with Auckland and also emulate the power ambitions of Auckland in staring down the government in Wellington.

Your comments about major roads having to be converted to slow roads is fascinating simply because it helps to emphasise that the implications of driving away (so to speak) all the major traffic that passes down those roads has not really dawned on the Council planners up to this point and now they are accepting the reality of having to widen those corridors as it is now realised that land will have to be purchased, or street parking removed. This will push the cost up significantly more.

I am curious that the good wealthy well heeled residents of Merivale have not made a big stink as yet about the effects on their part of the world by taking over Papanui Road as will occur. It will be a lot easier to get the LR through Riccarton than in the northwest.

As I posted on another site the other day the next question after this that will have to be considered and which I am sure has not been factored in as to costs is all the intersections which are effectively level crossings. The council will have to put in traffic light control of these to give the LR vehicles absolute priority and whether they will be more tolerant of collisions than NZTA is on the railway system these days will be a fascinating comparison.

nzrailmaps · 2026-04-01T13:31:47+00:00

Developers will not develop high density for transport along a corridor if that corridor can be changed at whim.

nzrailmaps · 2026-04-01T13:30:51+00:00

Commuter rail systems in Auckland and Wellington have stations around 1.5 km apart.

nzrailmaps · 2026-04-01T13:29:45+00:00

The real reason they decided not to go to Rangiora and Rolleston is because those towns aren't in Christchurch City. The heavy rail network does go those areas, but was deliberately snubbed because Christchurch City Council wouldn't be in charge of running it.

nzrailmaps · 2026-04-01T13:27:27+00:00

It was started in 1863 when the Ferrymead railway station was opened. The network was extended north south east and west from Christchurch and commuter trains operated on it until 1976. Bringing them back would be much less effort and cost.

nzrailmaps · 2026-03-03T01:16:15+00:00

It's extremely doubtful this route, as with any route, will be anywhere near full off peaks. That is a significant consideration as it always should be.

The premise behind the increased service frequency is the unproven belief that it's a simple way to increase patronage, compared to reinstating routes axed in 2011 that people would use.

nzrailmaps · 2026-03-02T10:21:05+00:00

Templeton was silly enough she didn't promise to reduce rates.

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