Unfucking believable!
Rolling closures to hit Auckland train users again until 2025
Tens of thousands of Auckland train commuters will face major disruption to services until the end of 2025 as a major $330 million rebuild project begins in December.
The long suffering public transport user is once again getting fucked by AT and every consecutive Government who has used immigration to create fake economic growth while not investing one cent in the infrastructure to actually get us around the city!
If AT say it will finish in 2025 you know it will be 2030!
The Arctic Sea will be ice free before AT finishes its cheap barely adequate upgrades!
This is why Public transport must be made free, to try and heal and protect the long suffering public transport user from more outrageous abuses of bullshit service!
One thing is for certain, if National/ACT get back into power next year, the immigration floodgates will be thrown open once again and the very growth gridlock pains we are suffering now will only get worse.
Expect that AT date to be 2035 then.
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Abandon your cars, take public transport! Or your $5000 E bike.
Then Auckland Council bring in congestion charges to punish drivers and especially the less well off for the audacity of going to work AND not accepting the shit offerings of Auckland Transport. Plus motorists pay the additional Auckland fuel tax, etc, etc!
But we have a bus driver shortage because of the very model our public transport is founded on; buses. Shit pay, abysmal split shifts, and scum who attack bus drivers. All off the back of severe housing unaffordability.
And now our under maintained rail network, only just getting back on it’s feet after the year plus of track replacement will basically close and be worked on by about 20 staff full time with mid 20th century equipment and as you say, one day, light years from now it will be sorted, maybe.
You think the free public transport bribe/promise is real or achievable? Not on your life.
What a joke.
Great comments .I hope those that call for FREE public transport read it and realized how out of touch they are .Even in CHCH buses are constantly being cancelled due to driver shortages.
Rather than blaming mass immegration for any problems we need to attract more to fill roles in every aspect of NZ life.
great idea trevor if a job pays s**t then just import cheaper workers, great solution very smart
Shit wages = minimum wages, not a liveable wage, massive difference there Bobby. Then there is the underbelly employing immigrants who pay below the minimum wage. They just don’t get caught.
Why would migrants come here for shit wages when they can go to Australia and get good money .They are so desperate over there they are telling those on a aged pension they can do 12 months and it will not effect their pension.
Bus drivers in Chch are on $27 per hour and they are still short staffed. Not sure what Auckland drivers get paid but if it is not enough then now is the best time to ask. Even university professors are going on strike now for 8 percent increase.
Are you seriously suggesting all those examples were better off under National?
They’re going on strike now to get an 8 % increase that National never gave them and they are 15 years behind where they should be Trevor thanks to National.
Thinks were a lot cheaper under National. There housing policy was not great I admit but rents were a lot lot less as we’re houses .This country is going backwards and in the last month more nurses left this country than came in according to their union boss.
It’s interesting that this information was kept secret right up until the last day of voting.
Who knew?
Who is the councillor responsible for planning? (Chris Darby). Was he aware?
Go around the world and see functional stations NOT the gold plated monstrosities being built here. We act like we are like-for-like with Paris, London or New York with our infrastructure. We aren’t even on the level of Brisbane. Adelaide maybe although they appear to be able to build things there also.
According to Auckland Council 32% of rates is spent on transport. Squeaky wheel gets the grease…to sqeak even louder and get even more grease.
I wonder if Auckland will become NZ’s fastest shrinking city over the next 2-3 years?
Firstly I believe the image used as a representation of a train service falling off the rails is actually a Sydney train, which is quite ironic because the train service in Sydney is actually pretty good and there has been significant investment in both metro and light rail over recent years.
The key word is investment, or in the case of Auckland lack thereof, the problem stems from the fact that Auckland Council does not have enough revenue raising channels to maintain the current infrastructure let alone improve upon it. Consequently it is reliant on obtaining funds from central Government, which has proven difficult to say the least.
Unless this is resolved Auckland council will always be depended upon the political whims of whoever is in power in Wellington. Currently there is some hope, but just wait and see what happens if there is a National/ACT Government with Seymour in control of the purse strings then Auckland council will not get a cent out of Wellington as there only thing ACT appear willing to invest in is defence spending, which is something I in fact agree with but that is for another comment at another time.
The mayoral prospects could have enhanced their chances had they promised to rip AT apart and start from first principles. If kiwirail are responsible, then AT need to get out a big stick.
This rail work required should be done around the clock until it’s complete- I can just see what will happen, work that is done will be piecemeal, delayed by weather, weekends off and all the usual disruptions and inefficiencies that these contracted out jobs end up having. Perhaps if the govt won’t do a public works dept for crucial infrastructure then maybe we need a regional one.
Auckland in a nutshell – and take that as you wish.
The long suffering public transport user is once again getting fucked by AT and every consecutive Government who has used immigration to create fake economic growth while not investing one cent in the infrastructure to actually get us around the city!
The big planners, advisors from overseas come and give us tips on how to grow the country’s economy, the opportunities to push the rate up and up. That works they get their fee. The success froths at the top and the cup runneth over. Problems. Another giant firm comes and diagnoses the problem, and …gets its fee. The Battle of the Titans!
Meanwhile down in the boondocks, we pick our way through the not complete chaos so we can still have a life, of which there are many different gradients, some wrapped in luxury and some in dirty newspaper or cardboard. But then that’s good as recycling was one of the goals to work at said the wise guru, and got paid for that sentence. They should be serving other types of sentence!
But with luck it all makes work for the working man to do! How the system works for the ordinary person, sung by Flanders and Swann and portrayed by Lego. Laughter is the best medicine.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mOA_SUKEZRE
Stop Press.
Minister Wood listening to bus operators. He’s making the right noises about pay and conditions but honestly, fiscal discipline will win the day.
Expect full on migrant exploitation in the next 6 months!
At least Labour s Hamilton to Britamout fast train service will still work. Will just take 3 hours with all the replacement buses.
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