Usage jumped dramatically – up 17% for the entire fiscal year and then grew from that in subsequent years. Stuff earlier reported transport officials want a $5 billion rail tunnel under the Auckland harbour a decade before any additional road link, according to new council documents. On Sunday morning, Birkenhead to downtown ferries will depart every 30 minutes from 6.30am until 9.35am when they return to a standard timetable. The powerful winds also tipped another truck on its side. Hopefully they can get priority going southbound to the bridge further too. It’s heaps cheaper to get people across the harbour on buses than in cars. Crazy idea time, but desperate times call for desperate measures.
That permanent solution could be several weeks away, Gliddon said. On average, more than 170,000 vehicles cross the bridge on weekdays.
It sounds like they have to spend some time working out where and how much to jack it so that they can put the replacement member back in tension and redistribute the loads through the surrounding members to get the bridge behaving like normal. The reality is, central government is one that going to stump up with the cash , as Auckland Council doesn’t have the money do it alone. LR on Isthmus and NW was never instead of across the harbour but in preparation for it. ', 'Hopefully, it was a local': $8.3m Lotto winning ticket sold in North Shore dairy, Child to be discharged from hospital after consuming potent fantasy drug, Watch live: Winston Peters fronts media after street corner meeting, Are there any new cases?
Compare it to the vertical beside it in the video. Increasing capacity / effectiveness of other modes will increase the resiliency of the cities transport network. "This is by far the most complex part of the process because the bridge needs to be constantly monitored to see how it's responding to the new weight distribution," he said.
Our aim is for work to start in 2028 with a road and rail tunnel under the Waitemata Harbour. Passengers ends up get stuck in city without any way to get back home. The business case has been worked on by staff from Auckland Council, Waka Kotahi and Auckland Transport. Heavy congestion and delays are expected on both sides of the bridge as well as other state highways and local roads.”. This explained well in this diagram below. The tensioning will be nothing more complex than pulling the two ends together so the bolts can be put back. It recommends an urgent upgrade to the Northern Busway followed by an additional rapid transit connection for the North Shore, including across the harbour to the city centre. The last public designs we saw for a new crossing are about a decade ago now but crucially they show that on the southern side, a new crossing would connect directly into the Central Motorway Junction without a connection to the city centre itself – effectively turning the existing bridge into a giant off-ramp. Please no more rhetoric and carefully crafted arguments.
Finding a legacy project for a very aggressive and polarising CEO of AT was the reason Light Rail on Dominion Rd was prioritised.
But we should only change plans when something like available technology really changes options. With induced demand, these lanes would all fill up just as the author alluded to with the Western Ring Route (and this is a once in a 60 year issue, so can’t justify yet another backup bridge etc for another similar event.).
We looked into how many passengers we can carry on bus routes that go across the Harbour Bridge and found that: These numbers are for seats only and there is room for about 10% more people when standing.
+1 Although they are doing good, it would be much better if NZTA provided more information. Now for what happens to the bridge. In order to fix that AT has a project in its pipeline, but that might be years away. The Auckland Harbour Bridge is part of State Highway 1, meaning its operation and maintenance is the responsibility of central government via the NZ Transport Agency. Maybe the current strut is a good indication of the size. 'Utter mess': Motorists trapped in horrific weekend traffic after Harbour Bridge truck crashes, Traffic chaos: Strong winds cause two trucks to crash on Auckland Harbour Bridge, bridge damaged, Copyright © 2020 MediaWorks TV - All Rights Reserved, By subscribing you agree to our Terms of Access and Privacy Policy. READ MORE: * Auckland Harbour Bridge: All eight lanes now open after crash that damaged strut * Auckland Harbour Bridge: Why is NZTA closing lanes in high winds? Credits: Video - Newshub; Image - NZTA.
That load then redistributed itself through the bridge," New Zealand Transport Agency (NZTA) general manager transport services, Brett Gliddon, told media on Saturday. In my experience something such as that could be produced in less than 2 weeks (including galvanising) if sufficient monetary incentives were provided. Ferries are operating as usual and have spare seating capacity.
We saw this clearly on Friday. And if it the traffic starts to move too much then jump on the ferry to Birkenhead/Devonport with the bike! This would also assist with the current situation. Some roads in the central city will be closed or have managed access from 3am on December 31 to 4am on January 1.
A second bout of strong winds barrelling through Waitematā Harbour at close to 100km/h brought more delays to motorists last Tuesday when authorities temporarily closed the bridge. So congestion wont really improve, there would be more trips made however, which is really the end goal. Unless they have already? Lots of reasons you wouldn’t want, say, another general traffic (cars, trucks etc) bridge or tunnel then using the existing harbour bridge for say buses and walking, cycling etc.
One of the tricky things is that many of the buses that might have otherwise been able to be used are not available because they’re needed as rail replacement buses. Elliot St, Durham St, Lorne St, Darby St and Bowen Ave will be closed and Kitchener St and High St will have managed access. Aren’t they pretty much the same in this context? Yes “Accessible cities evolve from deciding what the best long term outcome is then working backwards to see how you implement that, rather than incrementally projecting current trends forward and catering for another ten years of demand.” And and probably some of these lines LRT from the start or fairly easily upgradable to LRT. It’s so rare that it’s the first time it’s happened in 60 years. It will take a few days at least for regular car commuters to make alternative arrangements and new temporary normal to establish. At Birkenhead, buses will meet the ferry and transfer you to Akoranga Station. A new road crossing built sooner than the 2040s would not solve congestion issues, as much of the traffic buildup was on roads either side of the bridge, rather than on the crossing itself, he said. By turning the harbour bridge into a centre city off ramp we remove about 25% of the traffic, currently about 75% continues on to other destinations through the southern and western motorways, and this is a dropping statistic year on year with more people taking the bus to downtown. The idea being to really make the PT option work as smoothly as possible to help encourage as many people as possible to use it. “This includes the costs for designing, fabricating and installing the temporary and permanent beams, as well as labour and traffic control,” the spokesman said. Should the operation prove successful, it could mean the bridge is fully open a week from now, although the NZTA said a definite timeframe was still not confirmed. The two outer northbound lanes on the bridge will remain open.
Reading the article it seems that the author swings the argument any which way to suit the outcome desired. I really just dont think it would be worth the price tag. Jezza, it seems much more like Phil Twyford’s personal incompetence was what totalled LRT on Dominion Rd. From 9pm, lights along the harbour bridge will put on a visual display, before counting down to bring in the new year. Fair, I read light rail on Joe’s original comment. Now that it is not in tension anymore the rest of the bridge around that piece will have shifted slightly to compensate. The Auckland Harbour Bridge is part of State Highway 1, meaning its operation and maintenance is the responsibility of central government via the NZ Transport Agency. …and no, it won’t require giant cranes. But as a composite structure the members between the deck and the arch could be in compression maintaining the seperation. Jack – the main issue with cycle lanes on arterial routes isn’t money, it’s resistance to road space being reallocated. Build a solid 3 or 4 meter high noise / pollution wall.
“We ask people to consider working from home if possible or using public transport instead of taking the car.
The author is talking about road crossings in that section / capacity of the roads. The Auckland Harbour Bridge is an eight-lane motorway bridge over the Waitematā Harbour in Auckland, New Zealand. Arguably NW is more urgent as it has nothing, at least Isthmus buses can’t be prioritised and squeezed further, even if that’s tough on the city centre. "It's not days.". It could take longer than five weeks to permanently fix damage caused to the Auckland Harbour Bridge by one of Friday's truck crashes. I’m using southbound as an example but I presume northbound will be similar.
It joins St Marys Bay on the Auckland city side with Northcote on the North Shore side. Yes. Why wouldn’t it be all day?
The WRR does provide an alternative route but it doesn’t and can’t provide enough capacity to cope with the level of demand that it normally handles as well as the bridge traffic. A second road crossing sounds like destroying the village to save it. Together, these concepts are complementary. I just think that given we have a limited amount of money, and per dollar, we could probably grow cycling more if we spent that same money on different cycling projects (like from Newmarket south next to the rail corridor).
Under the heading of “It’s an I’ll wind that blows nobody good….” Reflect on the grumbles that the original harbour bridge was too small and the ‘clip on’ doubling. I dont even think it’d be cheaper. Good they had just repaired/upgraded the Birkenhead Ferry terminal. However, motorists and bus passengers will first have to endure at least one more night of lane closures. The bridge strut bent out of shape after being hit by a truck on the Auckland Harbour Bridge The bracket where the bridge truss has been sheared away, breaking the bolts holding it in … According to the business case from about 2016 or so, the driver for the Dominion Road light rail was bus delays inbound on Symonds St / Wellesley St. A northern LRT wouldn’t do anything about that, but it would head off similar problems happening on the northern approaches eventually.
I’m using southbound as an example but I presume northbound will be similar. What needs to be done is a proper look at what our options are. We will also fast-track the consenting work required.
It also means that if there was an issue on the new crossing, traffic already on the motorways would have to exit and weave through the city to get between on/off ramps.
Agree. If an eight-lane single structure had been built in the first place, today would be ferries only. A Western ring rapid transit route (whatever mode so long as it has its own right of way and priority at intersections) would be hugely useful for the people that live out West. For some reason it will take 5 weeks to make a copy and hang it up there. The reason dominion road was prioritized for light rail first is because it will reach max bus capacity much earlier than the northern busway right?
Details on all detours and transport options available on the night are available here. But that doesn’t mean that they have to take the project out of Auckland’s hands right?