The Government’s move to pour billions into potholes whilst remaining inactive on climate change does nothing to solve our transport system’s core problems.
“The coalition of climate deniers have their heads buried in potholes,” says the Green Party’s transport spokesperson, Julie Anne Genter.
“Pouring $4 billion into potholes might as well be money poured down the drain if we fail to confront the climate crisis and prevent a future filled with wave after wave of natural disaster.
“Simeon Brown created the hype around potholes but doesn’t have solutions to the real challenges our transport network is facing.
“The Minister really has no idea how our transport network works and what is needed to enable more people and goods to keep moving. Investment in rail, public transport infrastructure, and coastal shipping is a vital part of reducing pressure on our roads, reducing transport costs, and bringing down emissions.
“Other transport solutions are desperately needed to shift money away from repairing roads constantly. For $4 billion we could stop the damage in the first place by improving low emissions alternatives such as public transport, taking pressure off our climate and roading infrastructure.
“We desperately need funding to shift more heavy freight onto rail and coastal shipping rather than entrenching our dependence on roading.
“To plunge huge amounts of taxpayer money into something as short term in its impact as fixing potholes is simply throwing good money after bad. We need a government that has the guts to look at the long term needs of our country,” says Julie Anne Genter.
“To plunge huge amounts of taxpayer money into something as short term in its impact as fixing potholes is simply throwing good money after bad. We need a government that has the guts to look at the long term needs of our country,” says Julie Anne Genter.
The one thing the National party has never done except Rob Muldoon and his think big.
That is thinking long term.
All national or Act ever does is think of yesterday and never next year or the next decade and beyond.
“The coalition of climate deniers have their heads buried in potholes,” says the Green Party’s transport spokesperson, Julie Anne Genter.
The Greens are wilted and should be careful how they strut and crow about what should be done by a responsibly environmental Party, now they have shown themselves so easily derailed from their own main line of policy onto wokeism. Still I suppose they will blame some vandal for switching the signposts and sending them plunging into the abyss. Perhaps they can capture the hot air at each meeting, bottle it and sell it as genuine Green Party breath. It would be a great fundraiser and show a sense of humour as well as tacit contrition for the past.
They need to get behind KiwiRail as their main effort at assisting transport now they can commiserate with them about being derailed. Some body has to stand by KiwiRail and watch over them or they will end up running in circles and have a head-on and wipe out all that we have achieved even despite the roading cabal. I remember that a foreigner came over to Oz and started big trucking there, got close to Labour’s Hawke, and helped him while helping himself greatly. https://immigrationplace.com.au/story/sir-peter-h-e-abeles-ac-cbel-pzter-part-1/ (On next google entry there is this indicating that transport is a moneymaker.)
Transport company owner Peter Smith has listed his home on the Isle of Capri.
We won’t be in transports of delight when the main South Island line is washed, slipped or quaked out. Shipping coastally would help but while we have so many unemployed and have an extended depression (economic and otherwise) we could start on surveying a new route and get a new line going. We need to decide on whether we want old-fashioned jointed rails or smooth all the way. I think with our changeable climate and land we should have jointed – whatever is practical for us. So Greens could actually turn their thinking to something practical instead of bottom-driven computer tapping. Get tool tapping, the fellas down south would love to open the workshops before they all die out. Go to it Greens, you couldn’t do better, you are so far down in most people’s estimation.
Potholes damage vehicles and can potentially lead to accidents, Julie Anne.
What have you got against saving lives and repair bills?
Buses need safe roads to, Julie Anne. So do bikes and electric cars.
Why can’t we have safe roads, Julie Anne?
Moreover, being large, busses do more damage to the roads.
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