Category: Transport Safety Blog New Zealand

In Part 1 of this article we took a look at how the local government system in Canterbury and elsewhere has evolved to the present day, and how the management of public transport in the Greater Christchurch area, which was under regional control from the 1890s until 1989, appears to have been briefly held by…

In the 2014 New Zealand elections, the New Zealand First party sought to steal the limelight on promotion of the railway network. The party announced a “Railways of National Importance” campaign, an obvious counter to the National Party’s Roads of National Significance proposals. Whilst many of the corridors mentioned were existing ones, the policies also…

So then, we come to the question of the future of the Taieri Gorge Railway in its current form, the subject of this third article in TSBNZ’s current series of articles about the controversy that is currently being highlighted over the future of the present railway corridor. There are three possible options for the future…

Welcome to Part [2] of this series about the TGR-OCRT saga currently playing out in Dunedin and national local governance and rail heritage circles. Part 1 was an introduction to the saga that looked at how the Taieri Gorge Railway was established, its recent history, and a comparison with its nearest pure-rail-heritage equivalent, the Weka…

This is Part [1] of a planned series of three articles on the current TGR-OCRT saga, whereby the future of the Taieri Gorge Railway is suggested to be as a conversion into an extension of the Otago Central Rail Trail. This is shaping up to be quite a controversy in 2023 and has involved much…