The Rangitoto Line

The Rangitoto Line is the name I give to a light rail line which I think will be very useful for The North Shore and the East Coast Bays.It will go from Devonport Wharf to Long bay via Takapuna Beach and Browns Bay.It will have Shuttle connections from Browns Bay to Albany Park and Ride and Takapuna Beach to Akoranga. Also the Devonport ferry would become more frequent.making connecting services to Downtown.

I call it the Rangitoto Line because of how it will be on The East Coast and All Beach's in the North Shore have views of Rangitoto. The route will go mostly along Beach Road and through the coast.This route will Bring an alternative and frequent public Transport method to the East Coast Bays.Not only that. It will take cars off lake road which is one of the worst roads for Traffic in Auckland.

Waterview Connection Update

The Waterview connection is only a couple of months away from completion. And I must say, I am really excited for it to open. It will finally unlock a ring route around Auckland's CBD and it will also give a much faster route into the airport.

It is meant to open in April 2017 and by all the all of the photos you can tell that April looks very close.Construction began in 2012 and it coast a solid $1.4 billion.It is sad to see the construction go but it is going to bring so much benefits to Auckland.

Auckland's ferry

Auckland is known as the city of sails.That makes sense because every time I look out into the Waitamata harbour.It is like traffic jam in the water.The one problem Auckland has about boats is that they don't come very frequently.I'm obviously talking about ferries.

There are 15 ferries trips in Auckland mostly going to the north.The most frequent one goes from the Downtown ferry terminal to Devonport wharf and that comes every half an hour.That is really good timing because every time a ferry comes to Devenport,it is jam packed. I think they need to make more ferry's like this in the North Shore and East Coast Bays. Because Currently, These two areas, are really lacking from transport options.But heres the solution to fix that problem.
They should put a couple of ferry routes going to Takapuna and Browns bays towards Downtown.This would be very convenient because I know that lots of people will properly use it.It is much needed in especially in the North Shore. What would be even better is opening a new ferry route too Murrays bay (Just south of Browns Bay) Because they have just finished renovating there wharf.This is much needed in Auckland. And if we want to stay being called the City of sails. We have do something about it.

Review Post: Sylvia Park

The other day, I went to Sylvia park for the first.and it was massive.it had shops absolutely everywhere. I didn't know where to begin.Sylvia park is a massive mall that is meant to be one of the biggest in New Zealand. It has just under 200 stores and it was opened in mid 2006.

Sylvia park has good transport connections to the city centre such as frequent trains coming every 10 minutes and since the new bus network has come out since September last year, it has had really good connections to major southern metropolitan areas such as Manukau and Mangere. Sylvia park has a lot of big stores in it such as Pak'n save (Which is very odd because I never have seen a Pak'n save inside a mall) Kmart and the warehouse extra.

In a way, I feel like Sylvia Park was a lot like Albany.it was all mostly farm land and they slowly made it grow. Albany was really horrible, but I think their really turning it round to look a lot like what Sylvia park is today.