Diesel dinosaurs are king with National

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2368_69000016281_4209_aThe much praised John Key announcement last week that the government has finally agreed to fund Auckland’s inner city rail link is not the cause for celebration it should be.

The full announcement on Friday confirmed it was business as usual and the tarseal addicts – aka the roading lobby – had got the lion’s share of the funding feast. Those pushing for public transport will have to wait till 2020 for funding for the inner-city rail link and remember that’s after at least three local body elections and two general elections leaving plenty of opportunity for the bitumen brigade to knobble the link and thieve this funding as well.

Most importantly the government’s transport package does nothing to reduce traffic congestion. Even if the rail link is built in 12 years – the earliest the government will commit to – we are stuck with rising traffic volumes and life in our “most liveable” city grinding on ever more slowly.

The cost to Aucklanders and business is huge.

Every member of every family has a story of traffic nightmare not to mention the environment which suffers as cars and trucks burn up petrol and diesel pointlessly in bumper to bumper traffic.

According to a government commissioned report earlier this year traffic congestion costs the city $1.25 billion every year in lost productivity.

So why are the fossil-fuel junkies so opposed to public transport?

The truth is that the corporate sector are ideologically opposed to anything owned or organised by the community. They would rather all Aucklanders suffer in gridlock – themselves included – rather than see funding go to public transport to ease congestion.

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They prefer to cut off their nose to spite their face.

Small and medium sized businesses along with the majority of Aucklanders would happily fund decent public transport but the diesel dinosaurs are king with National.

Aucklanders are left with the worst of both worlds – paying for massive expenditure on new roads and required to suffer endless traffic gridlock.

 

Minto for Mayor

Readers will know that I’ve put my hat in the ring as the Mana Movement candidate for Auckland mayor. Traffic gridlock is one of the biggest issues facing the city and will be the feature of our policy launch this coming Sunday. Anyone in Auckland is welcome to come along to hear our plans to give Aucklanders an extra hour at home every work day.

The Minto for Mayor policy launch is at Trades Hall, 147 Great North Road, Grey Lynn – 2pm this Sunday 7th July.

4 COMMENTS

  1. Thankfully , I have a simple mind . I’m easily attracted to twinkly , sparkly things and pretty girls . And kittens . A pretty girl wearing a sparkly cocktail frock cradling a fluffy kitten while offering my a whiskey sour with a smile … OMG ! As they say .

    The other thing I was wondering was am I the only one , when traveling the hinterland , see the ancient archeological sites that were once known as ‘ rail way tracks ‘ and ponder , where are the trains at ?

    Yes ! Those odd mounds and mysterious bridges to no where out there , in the middle of the fields of Cowsploitation . They once were used as part of a complex yet efficient transport system to ‘ rail ‘ our primary industry products to our harbours to be shipped to our ‘ markets ‘ .

    Yeah ! That’s right !
    I know ! ?
    Hard to believe isn’t it ? That our entire economy came from the land beyond the whore houses , casinos , war torn ghettos and shattered dreams that are our Super Cities .

    Has anyone else asked why pig ( No disrespect to actual pigs ) muldoon Thought Big and pulled up most of the essential branch lines servicing the agricultural hinterlands ?
    No ?
    Why not ?
    What have you got to lose ?
    Oh , yeah . Your jobs . I keep forgetting . Sorry .
    Has anyone asked how it is that a Mr Fancy Pants who owned/owns a massive transport company came to obtain a hand built sports car worth many millions of dollars ?
    No ?
    Why not ?
    What have you got to lose ?
    Oh , yeah . Your jobs . I keep forgetting . Sorry .

    You journalists ! You fucking cowards ! Get up off your arses and hunt them down before you grow old and have to die in shame .
    Julian Assange and Edward Snowden would be ashamed of you .
    One of the greatest cases of fraud is out there . Right under your noses waiting to be tackled and you guys piss around trying to get a line on silly old winston peters .
    ( I’m referring to the MSM guys . Not you TDBers of Tumeke-ites . )

  2. The truth is that the corporate sector are ideologically opposed to anything owned or organised by the community.

    They know that the community can do it better and cheaper than they can and that if the community realised that then their profits would disappear.

    Small and medium sized businesses along with the majority of Aucklanders would happily fund decent public transport but the diesel dinosaurs are king with National.

    The Luddites in this day and age aren’t the people suggesting windmills but are the people suggesting more roads and cars.

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