Light rail crucial to Auckland’s future – Press release
City Vision has praised plans just released for light rail to be built through central Auckland. The new rapid transit system connects Māngere and Onehunga with Mt Roskill and the City Centre. It will shape our city and our lives, bringing opportunities for a better...
First electric train for Auckland revealed
Cr Mike Lee was acknowledged today by the Mayor Len Brown as instrumental in bringing electric trains to Auckland at the unwrapping of the first train to arrive from Spain. The trains will be gradually introduced into passenger service on a line by line basis until...
Making the running in Albert-Eden-Roskill
Today's piece in the NZ Herald 'Battlefield of the haves and have-nots' confirms that the City Vision and Roskill Community Voice campaigns in this critical ward, are making all the running. Hard working incumbent Councillor Cathy Casey has been campaigning hard on...
Bury the pylons petition cracks 1000!
Media Release Roskill Community Voice 9 September 2013 “We have been overwhelmed by the supportive response of the community to our Bury The Pylons campaign and petition,” says Garth Houltham, Roskill Community Voice candidate for the Puketapapa Local Board. “We...
Suffrage Day celebrations
2013 marks 120 years of women’s suffrage. In 1893, New Zealand became the first nation in the world to grant women the right to vote. Suffrage Day (September 19) is a significant day in New Zealand’s history and it is traditionally celebrated by individuals and...
TPPA – PHARMAC and the role of the Auckland DHB
A leak last year from the Peru round of the TPPA negotiations indicated that the United States pharmaceutical industry regard neutralising PHARMAC as one of its principle priorities. They have claimed that by keeping costs of medicines low to consumers PHARMAC ...
Walking and Cycling on the Harbour Bridge – let’s do it
The 1954 decision by the government of the day to build an Auckland Harbour bridge with only four lanes was one of Auckland’s original ‘sins of the fathers’. Well transport sins anyway. The others were the cancellation of rail electrification the same year and – the...