Newsletter #50 - 31 August 2017 Welcome to our 50th issue of The Gauntlet. There’s nothing to celebrate yet but we’ve come a long way. We started with distraction, then procrastination, then stone-walling, and now we’re getting pledges of action. This week has been busy with politicians promising this, that, and the other thing. Next week, we will find out whether there is any credibility to their pledges when Auckland Transport will front the Warkworth Area Liaison Group mee

Newsletter #49 - 24 August 2017 We are now less than a month from a general election and possibly the completion of the Kowhai Park upgrade. Rodney Times questioned the candidates. KOWHAI PARK The works team upgrading Kowhai Park are doing a great job, working through a very wet winter. There has been no traffic disruption, no damage to the environment, and all the works has been done for around half a million dollars. It looks like the black top is ready to be laid. The open

Newsletter #48 - 17 August 2017 We are almost one month from a general election and there is all sorts of positioning. All the foot-shuffling has muddied the waters. In this week’s newsletter, we cover all the conflicting and contradicting positions. HOW FAR WE’VE COME To demonstrate how much of a mess this year has been, check out this video from the NZTA that was published on 3 May: http://bit.ly/2i74QO8. The problem with the clip is that it didn’t take into account: the No

To download a PDF of this letter, please click here. #GregSayers #AucklandTransport #SandspitLink #congestion #PuhoiWarkworthRoadofNationalSignificance #design #funding

Newsletter #47 - 10 August 2017 Over the past week, Labour announced their transport policy to move within Auckland, National countered with their policy to commute to Auckland, while New Zealand First promised a referendum so North Rodney can cede from Auckland. To throw a spanner in the works, an Auckland Transport Alignment Project (ATAP) was leaked to Labour's Phil Twyford, which mentions that $300m of arterial roading in Silverdale and Warkworth could be brought forward

To view the report, please click here to download a PDF file (805kb). Here are images of the specific mentions of Warkworth in this document: #ATAP #AucklandTransport #NZTA #AucklandCouncil #futuregrowth #proposedworks

Newsletter #46 - 3 August 2017 In a week where the New Zealand Institute of Economic Research released a report estimating that Auckland congestion costs the economy $1.9b, Rodney Councillor Greg Sayers presented to the Auckland Transport Board about suggested improvements in and around the Hill Street intersection. CONGESTION COSTS The NZIER report ‘Benefits from Auckland road decongestion’ can be downloaded from here: http://bit.ly/2f8Kfs0. It was commissioned by the Employ

To view the PowerPoint presentation, please click here. In the presentation were the following four suggestions: To ensure that, once the design for the major upgrade of the Hill Street intersection was completed, that construction commence without delay (currently construction is delayed until the end of 2021); That minor works improvements to Sandspit Road commence to improve traffic flow and safety, including – Moving the Sandspit Road pedestrian crossing to the traffic li