The ‘I Am The Last Tram’ exhibition at MOTAT, resurrects the memories of the 1950s – a critical time in the history of New Zealand. Though most of Auckland’s present day population was not...
ARC Group success underscores why Auckland’s publicly owned Port must not be privatised The ARC Group (ARC, ARH and ARTA) has had an extremely successful period chalking up major strategic achievements. On top of the political successes of...
Anyeong hashimnigga, iarobun Aucklandé oshin kozui. Hanyeong hamnida I wish to acknowledge Mr. Young-geol Kim, Consul-General of the Republic of Korea in Auckland; Captain Dean McDougall, Captain Fleet Operational Support RNZN; Mr. Jim Newman,...
A thirty-seven percent rent hike on the Auckland Regional Council’s Pitt Street offices from 1 February 2009 has been averted by Chairman Mike Lee’s insistence that the increase was too high to be justified....
While it is understandable the Transport Minister Steven Joyce wants to puncture some of the more overblown ‘rail everywhere’ rhetoric of Super Mayor hopefuls, he could give some thought to applying the same sort...
My private holiday in China – mainly because of the Queens Wharf crisis proved to be more of a working holiday than I had originally anticipated. In fact at one stage I seriously considered...
The decision by the Council on 6 July to confirm my provisional agreement with the New Zealand Historic Places Trust to protect Shed 10 and relocate Shed 11 brought on a major crisis between...
After an absence of more than 50 years electric trams are coming back to Auckland streets. Early in June the ARC signed off on the $7.4m first stage of a heritage tramway project for...
Mike Lee speech at City Vision/Labour Roskill Community Voice Campaign Launch 2010 Ladies and gentlemen, fellow candidates on your behalf I would like to thank Len Brown for coming along today help us launch...
Presented to the Urban Rail 2010 Conference in Melbourne, 5th May 2010 Auckland, New Zealand notable for its superb geographic setting on two harbours and the magnificent Hauraki Gulf is also known as ‘the...
