EPA Board of Enquiry Chris Carr Carr & Haslam Limited September 6 th 2017 126237
It All began way back when
Carr & Haslam • Established 1862 • Based Mount Wellington, operates nationwide • 100 staff • 70 trucks • Delivers Motor Vehicles, LPG, Food, General Freight • Member RTF, NRC, ABF, (Road Transport Forum, National Road Carriers, Auckland Business Forum)
Chris Carr • Director • Director Auckland Chamber of Commerce • Director Auckland Business Forum • Fellow Chartered Institute of Logistics & Transport • Council Member Institute of Road Transport Engineers
Infrastructure • Auckland Harbour Bridge 1959 • Building slowed in 70s for 40 years • Newmarket Viaduct, Mangere Bridge, • Waterview Tunnels • A growing nations needs infrastructure to support that Growth • Does anybody really want to go back to the way we were (if so when?)
Onehunga • Increasing traffic • 2000 more vehicles per day since Waterview opened • Critics talk of separation of the East West link, but fail to see the separation caused by endless streams of traffic, quoted yesterday as 24/7 • Onehunga Harbour Road is clogged most of the day
East West Link • Recognised the need in the early 2000s • Quantified the use of the “East West “ are • Started to present a case to Auckland City Council, Auckland Regional Council, and NZTA • For building and funding an East West Link. • The case was built around freight delays and costs which were increasing.
Moving Auckland Freight – National Road Carriers The case to complete AMETI and EAST- WEST by 2020, as a Single Project Chris Carr 8 November 2011
Presentation • Introduction • Freight Facts • AMETI and East-West Corridors • The Tour • The Issues • The Fix
Roads are for moving people….
…and freight
trucks…. • Carry 99% of freight in Auckland • Freight is the backbone of Auckland’s and New Zealands economy and lifestyle…. • There is no alternative
What is freight? • Food • Clothing • Furniture • Water pipes • Rubbish • Recycling • Fridges • Heating • Electricity • …the necessities of life, work and play
Freight – The backbone of Auckland’s economy… NZ’s freight distribution hub: • $45,000,000,000+ of freight annually on Auckland roads – a third of NZ’s GDP • $34,000,000,000 of exports/imports – 90% by road • POAL & AIAL: 60% NZ’s imports & 33% exports by value • BUT ….international freight generates just 10% of Auckland’s freight traffic….
More freight facts…. • 200,000 freight vehicles – 20% of Auckland motor vehicle registrations… • 40% heavy (inc buses), 60% light trucks, vans and utilities • Freight trips projected to double by 2020 • Transport & Logistics Services – $4.200,000,000 (8.8%) of Auckland’s GDP and 35,176 (5%) of jobs... • plus many 000s more related and interdependent jobs
….And freight trends • Effective ‘ Upper North Island ’ economy: increasingly a quadrangle – Auckland, Northland, Waikato, Bay of Plenty – connected by freight transport • The diversity and value of goods carried is increasing: in line with the shift to knowledge-based economy • Distribution activities increasing – within Auckland, inter-regional & international • The East-West Corridor is the ‘ hub ’ HQ of NZ’s major freight/distribution businesses & where daily services start-finish
History - De Leuw, Cather 1963
State Highway “ladder” diagram AFTER BEFORE Tony Garnier EMA presentation July 09
NZTA’s E -W Link Shortlisted Options
“Finishing what we started in 1960s” SH1-20: East Tamaki to Onehunga Route (Neilson Street + Gloucester Park I/C): • Eastern suburbs (ETC, Pakuranga Bridge and SEART) across to Onehunga (Neilson St) are high business/ freight/ commuter routes. • NRC are delighted the Draft Auckland Plan proposes the East-West corridor construction by 2020 . The issue is: – Linking E-W with AMETI and designing an efficient corridor that squarely addresses the freight need for achieving the Plan’s ambitious growth goals…. With aim of completion by 2020.
Tony Garnier EMA presentation July 09
Daily HCV Freight East-West Trips • Pakuranga Bridge 8200 • SEART (east of Waipuna) 7000 • Mt Wellington H/way 2500 • Neilson St 4000+ • SH20 Manukau Crossing 4700 + Projected to double by 2020 (2008 Freight Study) + impacts of WRR 2015 + EDS growth target impacts Significant proportion of trips serve Upper North Island markets
The Tour- connection points • (1) Panmure is the edge of the “Tamaki Edge” • ( 2 ) SHI is the current main access point, North, City, South • ( 3 ) SH20 is the main access to the airport, secondary access south, (and will become the secondary access north when the Western link is completed)
South-Eastern Interchange
Intersection Church Street & Gt South Road, Penrose
Church Street Over-Rail Bridge
Intersection Church and Neilson Streets, Onehunga
Neilson Street Transport Hub
Intersection Onehunga Mall & Neilson Street
NZ’s “Premium” Freight Corridor • Metroport • Pikes Transfer Station • Tapper Transport • Hardies • Holcim • Translink • NZ Rail • Envirowaste
Metroport • Auckland – Tauranga: 2-way traffic • 300,000 teu pa (One teu = one truck trip) • Volumes increasing rapidly – NZ’s 3 rd largest container ‘port’ after POAL and Tauranga • 400,000 in 24 months • Alternative to Ports of Auckland in Roads and Traffic terms
Recycle Depot • CMA export 150,000 tonnes pa • Visy 90,000 tonnes pa • Pikes 55,000 tonnes pa • Chemwaste 18,000 tonnes pa • CHH Pulp 40,000 tonnes pa • Equates to around 20,000 HCV trips + Many thousands of small vehicles
Other Major Generators • MetroBox 182,000 containers • TranzLink 101,280 truck movements pa • Kiwirail 200,000 containers • Onehunga Wharf (200,000 t cement, 15000 containers) • NZ Bus Depot 400+ bus trips/ day
Other generators • Coca Cola : 35000 pallets storage • Supermarkets take 100 pallets coke /week – 14 pallets =s 1 HCV; 32 for a B-train • Foodstuffs (west)/Progressive (south) – 2,000,000 pallets pa • Sanitarium (north) • Seamount 5000 truck/moves week
Auckland Airport • High value, Low weight (250,000 tonnes) • 20% NZ Imports ($) • 12% NZ Exports ($) • Growing freight precinct • $5.38 billion • More than 10,000 people travel to work daily • 80,000 vehicle moves per day
Port of Auckland Freight by Road 10% 5% 10% Eastern North Auckland 50% 10% South Auckland West Auckland (Including East Tamaki) 15% SH1 South of Bombay Hills
Rolling impact of Congestion • Auckland generates freight • “central industrial zone” generates most of it • Delays in New Plymouth, Tauranga and Hastings often start with delays in Auckland • And Neilson Street • Driving hours • Trip times
Without faster AMETI & E-W “Congestion predicted to get worse….” • Without AMETI (by 2020) this area will become more congested, productivity will suffer and potential economic gains will be lost – Ascari – Will frustrate Glen Innes/Panmure zoned business land development - one of the few areas remaining in the Auckland isthmus – Access to these areas by commercial vehicles is already constrained, particularly from the south . • Without a strategic East-West corridor, by 2020 congestion will be end-to-end through every working day - Beca
Target: 2020 Completion Design & fund in three linked steps: • Ameti: Panmure to SH1 at Penrose/Mt Wellington • SH1 Penrose/Mt Wellington to Neilson Street • SH20 to Neilson Street (Gloucester Park I/C) ….. And how will it be funded??....
End of 2011 data
Environment • Seal the old toxic reclamation • Improve Ann’s Creek • Lower emissions through less stop/start • Less noise and traffic in Onehunga, Church Street, Neilson Street
Economy • Shortage of Industrial Land • Development of under utilised commercial sites • This area serves the Auckland and the nation • Goods only have a value if they are brought to market
Design • Need the best design • Need to accept that compromises are inevitable • Need to be able to justify the cost to the folk of Timaru and Taranaki • Traffic lights should be minimised • Neilson Street alignment not workable
Freight • Dangerous Goods: 10-15,000 loads pa • Road access essential to future of Rail • Freight efficiency benefits all New Zealanders • Gains directly benefit all
Closing comment • The consequences of not building the East West Link will be felt by New Zealanders for far longer than the consequences of short term change will be felt by some if it is built. • We urge the Board to allow the East West Link to be built as possible.
Recommend
More recommend
