VibeWire Magazine

Opinion: The Save Our Trains campaign says a high level Government conference on decarbonising transport has a huge hole in it. The Ministry of Transport is

Tane Apanui, a Christchurch personal trainer and former Hornby ward candidate, is confident he can have :the service operating from Selwyn and Waimakariri distr

Jo Crickett, from the Auckland-based bus importer firm, needed to get one of its electric Yutong E12 trial buses back home and a road trip was the only option w

Commuter rail hopes for greater Christchurch could be back on track after a unanimous decision by Environment Canterbury (ECan) councillors on Wednesday. ECa

Save The Trains Campaign welcomes KiwiRail’s decision to include a daily Auckland-Wellington service in an upcoming market research survey. But campaigners say

It’s taken a while to fully digest the light rail announcement from a couple of weeks ago. As I said at the time, and in quite a few interviews since, I have mi

Following the release of the government’s decision on Light Rail two weeks ago, the Auckland Light Rail team (ALR) released the Indicative Business Case (IBC) u

Light rail is still on the cards for Christchurch but not in the near future, according to a new report. More people would need to live and work near transport

Here at OTCM, layouts are like buses, and turn up at the same time – perhaps one of us working on one inspires the other to do the same thing…. And so it is that no sooner has Oly posted about his latest 4ft endeavour, I’m posting about something a little larger. I was actually …

Continue reading “Another New Layout….”

Writing in Stuff on February 5, Auckland Mayor Phil Goff claimed light rail is the key to the city ‘’becoming a world-class future-focused Auckland’’. This r