Much too fanciful and insufficient capacity regardless of how many vehicles you link together. We need to sort out the trunk routes first before we fix the outlying areas. Here in NZ we need tried and tested technology, not stuff like this which will be plagued with teething problems. We need 21st century light rail with tram-train vehicles as were pioneered in Karlsruhe 20 years ago. [Ironic that this guy is from Germany!] Let someone else try this out and tell us what it's really like in 20 years time.
This is so cool and not only would it be a transport solution it would attract so much international media attention for Auckland.
Oliver Neuland is an awesome designer, I love this Idea and hope he gets funding to see it through. We all could use a decent reliable public transport system. Go Oliver and good luck.
If you remember Mayor Robbie, I should imagine him getting out of the grave and applauding Mr Neulands ideas! The bus lane on the shore for example is an absoulte joke when equated with its cost,this looks like something I might use whereas I wouldn't be seen dead on a bus, incase I was still there when it arrived!
This is awesome. Get Auckland up the the times our trains are slow. To bad it will never be implemented.
Hi John, I watched the segment last night and thought this was a very cool idea for Auckland. Problem is I do not think any Authority in Auckland will implement it.
An excellent notion that I predict will never be implemented. In a country where a national cycle track is seen as the pinnacle of forward thinking, I can't see anything so brilliantly radical every finding favour with politicians or the public that elects them. Shame really, because if we were to make it a reality, we could then sell the thing everywhere else in the world and make some much-needed export dollars.
Before we all get carried away, let's get a cost-per-kilometre figure for the track system. From the sketches I see a 2+ metre deep concrete box as an outer shell, and a lot of precision needed for the tracks (pipes?) themselves. So I predict a cost in the high hundred-K to low millions per kilometre before anything starts running. I'd love to see real, non back-of-ciggy-packet estimates.
Hi JohnSaw this interview and I hope it reminded you of the ULTra presentation I showed you a couple of years ago. Good to hear others are thinking in terms of real alternatives to the Victorian era trains and buses. One point, $100,000 to develop a prototype is incredibly small. Try >$40m over 10 years and they might get somewhere near ULTra. Let me know if you are heading to the UK soon and I'll tee up a meeting with the team building the ULTra system being built at T5, Heathrow to show you what 21st century transport looks like at a fraction of the cost of existing forms.
aweome i think that is an awsome idea and cheap and could help the econimy