Cant Get There from Here
Cant Get There from Here Urban passenger rail patronage in Auckland and Wellington is now booming after many years of decline. Can't Get There from Here traces the expansion and the contraction of…
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Cant Get There from Here
Urban passenger rail patronage in Auckland and Wellington is now booming after many years of decline. Can't Get There from Here traces the expansion and the contraction of New Zealand's passenger rail network over the last century. Outside these two centres, however, the situation is quite different: intercity and regional passenger rail services are scarce, and no other city possesses suburban rail.
How far and wide did the passenger rail network once run? What is the historical context of today's imbalance between rail and road? Why is there an abject lack of services beyond the North Island's two main cities, even as demand for passenger transport continues to grow?
This book seeks to answer these questions. In this fascinating study, Andre Brett argues that the trend away from passenger rail might appear inevitable and irreversible but it was not. Things could have been - and still