20110214 Saving Northland Rail : KiwiRail's CEO Jim Quinn presentation to NRC in Whangarei

from 1pm. Tuesday , 15th of February 2011

( please forward this on to others who may be interested and let others who don't have e-mail know by phone ) .

Kia ora Katou !

The CEO of Kiwi Rail, Jim Quinn will be doing a presentation at a meeting at the Northland Regional Council offices in Whangarei from 1p.m. tomorrow

( Tuesday the 15th of February 2011 )

To see the agenda for this meeting ( which is open to the public, although you will not have the right to speak ) , click here or go to :

http://www.nrc.govt.nz/Resource-Library-Summary/Agendas-and-minutes/Council/Council-Meeting-Agenda---15-February-2011/

The last item on this meeting's agenda (8.2) will be finalising a submission by the Northland Regional Council's Transport Committee the The New Zealand Transport Agency (7th of February 2011) strongly supporting the Puhoi-Wellsford motorway extension in which they intimate an acceptance that Northland's railways will be 'downgraded' and ask that preparation be made for the increase in freight being carried on trucks on our roads.

see also:

Northland Regional Council's 30 year Transport Strategy ( 2009) "Bulk freight moved from road-based to rail and coastal shipping" "Linking Northport to the national rail network."

Rejuvenating Rail: Planning for the Marsden Point Rail Line

Northland Chamber of Commerce: Rail closure would be step backward

Northland Regional Council : Reducing our Carbon Footprint

NZ Parliamentary Support Research Papers: The Next Oil Shock

History of rail closures in New Zealand

To join a broad network of people working to save Northland's railways, to offer your skills, knowledge or time,

or just to be kept informed of what's happening,

please send an e-mail to : thewayforward2011@gmail.com

and sign up to Save the Auckland to Northland Rail Line ( on Facebook )

To learn more,go to our web-site : https://sites.google.com/site/thewayforward2011/

and read the Local Matters Newspaper article : Railway campaigners mobilise to save northern line (2nd February, 2011)

If you know someone who's likely to want to get involved but who doesn't use the internet, please give them my number.

Our input into this will be crucial in deciding the best way forward for Northland's future.