The right wing blitzkrieg just keeps coming…
Govt axes kids, youth public transport discounts funding
The Government will stop funding free public transport for children and half-price fares for young people under 25 by the end of next month.
Hundreds of thousands of people will be affected by the move, which raises the cost of bus, train, and ferry fares amid ongoing cost of living pressure.
For most regions, age-based public transport fares will change on May 1.
..when we need more investment into public transport infrastructure, when we should be countering the cost of living crisis while incentivising its use by making public transport free, when we are facing economic crunches and climate change consequences, scrapping public transport subsidies is the last bloody thing we should be doing!
Just add this to the long list of damage this Government is passing as social policy.
Fast tracking Trans National Mining Interests to raze our Environment.
Throwing the homeless off emergency waiting lists to make the emergency waiting lists look better.
More meth precursor drug access.
More sub machine guns.
8000 tobacco deaths for tax cuts.
13000 more children in poverty for tax cuts.
Disability benefit cut by $2300 per year for tax cuts.
Getting us involved in a new American war.
Ramming through laws misusing urgency.
Gang Patch bans that are against the Bill of Rights.
Attacking worker right, renter rights and environmental rights.
Taking free lunches away from poor children.
This is what we have become in just 100 days – if you voted for this you must own this malice and spite.
Here is Chris Bishop ‘celebrating’ with crayfish!!!!???
Austerity for us.
Crayfish for them.
This is what we have become.
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Martyn – Been on public transport laterly? I have…drunks, loonies, and teenagers…fun for all
Has any one asked who paid for Luxons xmas pissup with the whanau .I doubt his mrs would have cooked and cleaned for 25 parasites .I suspect it would have meant staff had to give up xmas with their own whanau to wait on the skin head and his new recruits into the mob.Then all the expenses would have gone on the company credit card and the staff would have been paid by the paliamentary services
NZ (even Auckland) doesn’t have sufficient population density for viable public transport. Factually, having a bus drive round with 2 people on it, is far worse for the environment than having each passenger drive a car. Public transport needs to be reliable, on time, and have a short enough roll over that if you miss it, you can just wait for the next one and not have your day ruined. There is no way to make that viable (wrt to cost and fuel consumption) in a city with a low population density (like Auckland).
The lies keep piling up no matter how right wing supporters like Bob the first and tighty I’m rightie try to fudge it……
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/transport-minister-simeon-brown-unsure-about-starting-billions-of-dollars-of-new-roads-this-term/DAMDEC3RLJBYBMXPM3MBC6VKNA/