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Leading the way for a 21st Click to Century edit Master Auckland style Institute of Directors
17 July 2013
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Overview
Click to edit Master title • Auckland’s Transport Challenge •style The Integrated Transport Programme (ITP) • The City Rail Link
• Shaping Auckland
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Auckland in 2041 Auckland is pivotal to the social, economic and cultural development of New Zealand 2,500,000
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More than 700,000 new residents
Click to edit Master title style 2,000,000
An extra 400,000 dwellings
Twice as many city centre and city fringe residents and employees
1,500,000
Growth to 2041
2011 Population 1,000,000
City Centre student numbers up by 30% City centre producing 25% of Auckland’s GDP currently 17%
500,000 729,000
0 Auckland
Christchurch
Wellington
Waikato
Bay of Plenty
Otago
Growth in Auckland to 2041
Auckland’s economy •
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Auckland employment composition Advanced business services, finance and insurance 12% 24%
Government, health and education Wholesaling and retailing
23%
Other 23% 18%
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Manufacturing
Auckland accounts for 34% of jobs in NZ and most are in the urban areas Auckland generates 37% of NZ’s GDP Wellington, Hamilton and Tauranga combined, account for 13% of jobs Transport is critical to shape urban form and lead economic development in cities
Why the city centre is important • Heart of the economy, with up to 16,000 employees per sq/km • By 2041, city centre will account for more than a quarter of Auckland region’s GDP
• Agglomeration benefits drive higher productivity and wages • Average city centre earnings 27% higher than the rest of Auckland • Improved access is key to Auckland’s economic growth
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City centre access Using medium growth forecasts and assuming all major transport projects other than City Rail Link in place By 2021: • Most bus networks are at capacity, some are over; can’t physically be provided for within existing road corridor • Private vehicle speeds in city centre halve in the morning peak to 7 km/h • Britomart has reached capacity By 2041: • Bus network significantly over capacity • Private vehicle journey times to city centre from west and south will increase by 30-50% • Private vehicle speeds in morning peak drop to 5km/h (average walking speed) • Trains into Britomart aren’t full for all services but can’t cope with demand going into Penrose and Newmarket
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PT growing as city access choice People entering the CBD 7 - 9 am 2001 - 2013 80,000 Total PT Car
70,000
60,000 34,284
50,000
40,000
21,115
30,000
20,000 29,500
34,314
10,000
2001
2013
• Numbers using public transport to get into CBD now the same as by car • Total number of people entering the city centre has increased
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Public transport growth by mode
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• 76% of the growth in public transport to the city centre since 2001 has been in rail and the Northern Busway
Trips over the Harbour Bridge to CBD • The number of people crossing the harbour bridge in buses has almost doubled since 2001 • The number of people in cars has dropped by more than 30% Person trips over the harbour bridge to the CBD 7-9 AM PT passengers
20,000 18,000
People in Cars to CBD
16,000 14,000
4,635
12,000
5,827
7,444
8,617 7,931
10,000
8,148
8,000 6,000
11,000
4,000
10,000
9,864
6,977
8,391
7,678
2011
2012
2,000 2001
2006
2009
2010
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Integrated Transport Programme
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Transforming our transport systemIntegrated Transport Programme •
A maximum one million more people = public transport must become a very real transport choice for more Aucklanders
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AT needs to improve that choice
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In three years transport in Auckland will be very different
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57 new electric trains
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Revamped bus network – more frequent, more places, better connections
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Integrated ticketing and fares
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One roading network
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New bus network video
http://youtu.be/TSPArxouaIY
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Transport priorities Four strategic transport priorities: 1. Manage Auckland’s transport as a single system 2. Integrate transport planning and investment with land-use development 3. Prioritise and optimise investment across transport modes 4. Implement new transport funding mechanisms
The Auckland Plan places the highest priority on three new projects: 1. City Rail Link 2. AMETI and East-West Link
3. Additional WaitematÄ Harbour Crossing
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Auckland Manukau Eastern The AMETI areaTransport Initiative (AMETI) • Two Tamaki River bridges carry 120,000+ vehicles a day, more than the Auckland Harbour Bridge • Some of the country’s highest traffic flows, highest proportions of freight traffic and greatest levels of congestion • Public transport not a realistic choice, only 4% of journeys • Poor strategic transport links for business and freight traffic • Walking/cycling difficult and dangerous
Major congestion points
Panmure Roundabout
130,000+ residents (similar size to Dunedin) Pakuranga town centre
SE Highway/SH1
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AMETI Phases
East West Link study
Rail now - a dead end in the city
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Rail future- City Rail Link Trains every 5 to 10 minutes
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The CRL route
• Britomart to Eden Terrace • 3 new city centre stations
• 3.4km – mainly underground
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The CRL difference Travel Times to City Rail Link Stations Travel by Train / Bus (minutes)
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To Before CRL
After CRL
Reduced Travel Time
% Improvement in Travel Time
New Lynn
Aotea Station
51
23
28
55%
Morningside
Aotea Station
39
14
25
64%
Onehunga
K' Road Station
47
27
20
43%
Manukau Centre
K' Road Station
61
42
19
31%
Newmarket
Aotea Station
27
10
17
63%
Panmure
Newton Station
40
27
13
33%
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Auckland traffic on a bad day Town Hall to Ellerslie
By car – 1 hour 45 mins With CRL – 20 mins
Transport drives urban regeneration
• Responding to problems not the best way to shape Auckland’s future • Leading growth with transport infrastructure is vital to city shaping
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Economic benefits •
Improved city centre access is key to Auckland’s economic growth
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Ensures efficiency for freight and commercial road users who need to access the port, move around city centre, or just pass through using the Central Motorway Junction
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Ensures employment isn’t pushed to other locations, which will reduce productivity and lead to a less competitive economy
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Re-development, investment around new stations
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Allows full benefit of investment already made in rail electrification, Western Line double tracking
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Why open in 2021? Why? •
Land use patterns and economic outcomes will differ if we lead or lag development
2021:
• Britomart has reached capacity • Major bus routes at, or over, capacity • Lead development and shape city centre • Intervene before problems get too bad
After 2021: • All other options for city centre access exhausted • Problem becomes sufficiently bad to justify CRL (based on standard transport analysis) • "Standard" economic think is that major benefits achieved through travel time reduction so need to let congestion worsen for it to be “economically” efficient to build CRL
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What the CRL makes possible
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CRL milestones July • Wiri maintenance facility opens • Britomart’s 10th birthday • Consensus Building Group report
August • Hearing of NoR submissions • Proactive property purchase September
• Reference design tender awarded • First electric trains arrive October •
Project definition report completed
Nov/Dec • Commissioners’ recommendation and AT decision
2014 • Designation finalised • New electric trains rollout
• Procurement starts
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