* For most areas in New Zealand cities the most common alternative to driving is to take bus public transport
* But NZ Transport planners keep assuming buses have limited capacity and so we must to spend billions on building rail and light rail lines to the city CBD
* Transport planning best practice says streets can support much higher volumes of buses.… Read more ...
Post Date: <span>2013</span>
Passenger Rail PT services are very expensive due to high capital costs. But because so much of the capital infrastructure is shared across multiple services cost allocation is more difficult than bus services.
This does not mean that the rail costs cannot be estimated for different services sharing tracks, stations and network systems. … Read more ...