Auckland Transport on the chopping block in massive shake-up by Mayor Wayne Brown
- Wayne Brown has proposed abolishing Auckland Transport and other CCOs as part of his last budget this term.
- Brown aims to improve accountability and reduce wasteful spending, with changes effective from July next year.
- Other options include transferring some of the CCOs’ functions to the council.
Like a chump I did what I was supposed to do.
I rented near transport routes and didn’t buy a car.
Like a chump.
Dear Auckland Transport – Auckland hates you.
Like a chump, I moved near a train station so my Daughter could catch the train to school.
Then you shut down the Station for 4 years – hilariously my Daughter will graduate before the fucking Train Station opens.
Like a chump.
Then you cut services…
City Rail Link: Aucklanders warned of disruption as near 100-day rail network closure revealed
…raised fares…
Auckland public transport fares to increase by 5.2% on average from February
…all while casually fucking over the entire public transport users of Auckland.
No one likes Wayne Brown but his plan to burn Auckland Transport down might have won him the next 10 Mayoralty’s.
Auckland Public Transport is painful and embarrassing.
I don’t believe I will live to see a functioning public transport network in this city ever.
Dear Auckland Transport – Auckland hates you
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Trouble is a lot of the public transport problems have been brought about by years of “we love our cars” bullshit. Large numbers of people who will vote for anyone with an anti public transport sentiment. Dickheads who can’t believe the actual mathematics that prove you will never build enough roads in central areas to replace what mass transit options can cope with. The same demented sentiment that builds a north western motorway in Auckland without a bus lane. These poor performing agencies are a reflection of a number 8 wire public. We won’t do anything with foresight. We wait until a problem is unbearable before we do anything, and that solution is invariably half arsed at best.
“we love our cars”
And we like conveniently going to the 10 places we have to go to each day without inconveniently getting on and off a bus 11 times and inconveniently having to walk half a km at each place we have to go to. Conveniently getting the 4 bags of shopping home unlike struggling on a bus. Conveniently getting the kids to rugby. Conveniently taking the family to visit Gran. Conveniently getting the tools to site. Conveniently getting a bit of me time on the way home from work. Conveniently getting to places in a huge city that public transport will never ever serve. I guess we love our cars for good reasons.
The only way to get people to really use public transport is to make it $5 a day, unlimited distance, unlimited trips, go anywhere, all day and night, trains, buses, ferries, scooters.
Bike lanes. Does anyone at AT realise that it rains 7 days out of 10 in Auckland and people aren’t going to mass commute on bikes like it’s 1970s China.
Who the fuck mentioned bike lanes. We have a shit public transport system because we won’t invest. That’s why you have to catch 11 buses numb nuts. And by the way no one is saying don’t have roads. Maybe tradesmen
could get around quicker if the roads weren’t clogged with people carry just a bag at best.
If you go to 10 places around the city in a day you get on and off the transport system a minimum of 11 times if it is an excellent transport system. More if it’s not.
Why are they spending money on ads on TV praising their mo es on road management ,?
Think its bad now wait till the lunatics in the asylum take over .Fuck me you people have been demanding better transport for years but voted for the cheapest councils so you did not have to contribute to improvements .No the work is underway you still fucken moan .Rail lines and busses dont just sprout up over night do they .
Jesus wept ,Williamson will be appointed and will take a lead from no boats Willis and cancel all new trains and tracks .See how you go then .Brown might even hire his mate Simeion as head of operations .
Stop moaning and be greatful that you have public transport ,I would love to have it where I live .
Mayor Brown seems to be doing what he promised.
Imagine an Auckland where Sir Dove M Robinson’s rail transport vision succeeded.
Yes imagine
Oh how unkiwi. We used to laugh at naive Pacific people who adopted attitudes called cargo cults where new modern things like planes and refrigeration dropped out of the sky, when it was ‘our boys’ from the USA in war. But we wanted things to arrive easily too, not have to plan and pay ahead, when we could afford it or start and carry forward during the various economic slumps and depressions we have had down the decades.
But behaving like sensible rational people who know how much to pay for ‘works’ and work out that it can be paid for in 10 years, or have something cheaper and affordable? No, it’s ‘they’ve got it in…’ some more populous part of the world, and why can’t we have it too. Answer we were only 3 million people and an isolated little island, some called Eden.
But that wasn’t flash enough for people who had risen socially and financially
in NZ. In early 1800s in England such people were called ‘mushrooms’. Seems that’s where we are in our minds in our time and place.
Vulgar or encroaching mushroom: pretentious person who is newly rich, i.e. sprung up into society overnight.
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Never happened because you have always elected the cheapest option when voting for council .The same goes for every council in NZ hence we have failing water systems country wide .
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