Will we ever wake up and realise the weather is changing against us all as we continue to allow this dirty transport policy of trucks trucks trucks, while we kill our low carbon rail services!!!! BRRRRR.
All while NZ Government is closing rail and building more truck routes for more trucks that pollute the environment with cancer causing tyre particulates (Butadiene styrene) and trucks use 10 times more inefficient use of fossil fuel to carry one tonne one km than rail uses!!!!
Absolutely dead right @ Cleangreen. When ever I drive the main roads off SH 1 in the South I see the remnants of our rail system. A rail system that was deliberately destroyed to hand heavy haulage onto pig muldoon’s mates in road transport. An act of treason AND and act of sabotage.
I’m not sure if that’s had an effect on barometric pressures but it certainly raises my blood pressure.
To add a bit more to this CB
I recently read an article by Clive Matthew-Wilson (Dog and Lemon Guide editor) about how bad our roads are compared to other developed countries and that is why our accident rate is so much higher than it could be.
He is right, in many ways. If most developed countries and even in places like China, all major roads and most secondary roads have at least a median divide in the middle. The notion of having 40 tonne plus vehicles hurtling towards each other at a relative velocity of 180 km/hr or more with less than a couple of metres space between (which happens on many of our roads) would be incomprehensible in most countries.
Yet we have many roads where the situation it is the norm. Clive correctly says that it only takes a minor mistake in such circumstances to create a tragedy.
When we think of the billion of dollars that National has spent over the last seven years on the roads of “national significance”, one might wonder why some money wasn’t allocated to improve the safety of all New Zealand’s secondary roads and intersections, not just Auckland’s.
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Will we ever wake up and realise the weather is changing against us all as we continue to allow this dirty transport policy of trucks trucks trucks, while we kill our low carbon rail services!!!! BRRRRR.
All while NZ Government is closing rail and building more truck routes for more trucks that pollute the environment with cancer causing tyre particulates (Butadiene styrene) and trucks use 10 times more inefficient use of fossil fuel to carry one tonne one km than rail uses!!!!
Absolutely dead right @ Cleangreen. When ever I drive the main roads off SH 1 in the South I see the remnants of our rail system. A rail system that was deliberately destroyed to hand heavy haulage onto pig muldoon’s mates in road transport. An act of treason AND and act of sabotage.
I’m not sure if that’s had an effect on barometric pressures but it certainly raises my blood pressure.
To add a bit more to this CB
I recently read an article by Clive Matthew-Wilson (Dog and Lemon Guide editor) about how bad our roads are compared to other developed countries and that is why our accident rate is so much higher than it could be.
He is right, in many ways. If most developed countries and even in places like China, all major roads and most secondary roads have at least a median divide in the middle. The notion of having 40 tonne plus vehicles hurtling towards each other at a relative velocity of 180 km/hr or more with less than a couple of metres space between (which happens on many of our roads) would be incomprehensible in most countries.
Yet we have many roads where the situation it is the norm. Clive correctly says that it only takes a minor mistake in such circumstances to create a tragedy.
When we think of the billion of dollars that National has spent over the last seven years on the roads of “national significance”, one might wonder why some money wasn’t allocated to improve the safety of all New Zealand’s secondary roads and intersections, not just Auckland’s.
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