KiwiRail's draft infrastructure business plan should be of real concern to all.
At a time when the country is facing record high fuel prices, the Government should be upgrading the network so that more freight and passengers can be carried on it, more quickly. New Zealand needs a fast, well-maintained rail network where trains can travel at 80-100km/hr along main trunk lines running the length and breadth of the country, from Whangarei to Invercargill, Hamilton to Awakeri.
A railcar service needs to be introduced to the Bay of Plenty running between Auckland and Mount Maunganui, using one of KiwiRail's fast Silver Fern railcars.
Kathryn Arnold, Tauranga.
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Rail to Auckland.
Posted on 29-09-2012 10:34 | By dgfend
Tauranga had a train to Auckland, not that many years ago. Someone might remember when. There was even a platform on the Strand near the rail crossing. It went up in the morning and returned at night.Then someone decided to change it to Up in the afternoon and back in the morning. Of course this was no good to anybody, they couldn't spend a day in Auckland and come home the same day, so it stopped getting passengers and was stopped. Gordon Fendley.
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