Auckland Transport confirms changes to pricing, zones
Fares on Auckland’s buses, trains and ferries will go up from early next month, with Auckland Transport also outlining changes to zones.
The National Party Caucus call Simeon Brown ‘Golden Balls’ because…
It’s a reference to David Beckham, a name he got for always delivering and because everything he touched turned to gold.
…when they say ‘everything he touches is gold’ they mean he’s ability to sneak road privatisation past Kiwis!
Simeon Brown is currently raising speed limits around schools to ‘lift productivity’ FFS!
His literal Christian Faith creates a level of self belief utterly at odds with his actual talent and has only met expectations because he’s 4foot 11 and looks 14 years old!
If sneaking road tolls and congestion prices while slashing public transport subsidies past sleepy hobbits who are triggered every time they see a cyclist is considered ‘competence’ in National, Chris Luxon is in more trouble than were have realised.
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Commuter cyclists would be a lot less triggering if they paid their share of ACC levies, paid some road users charges, commuted on their billion-dollar cycle lanes on rain days (not just when it’s a beautiful ride in the sunshine) and stayed off the pedestrian’s footpaths and zebra crossings. They are the ultimate free riders.
You just want to screw people out of as much money as possible, you dont give a shit about the public good, or common spaces, or anything like that.
Any why shouldnt we have bikes on footpaths. You just want to strip the poor of yet another means of transport.
In addition to being licenced, and their cycles WOF’d, registered and so number plated.
Typical right wing BS, always wanting to screw everyone out of cash, while wanting tax cuts and and end to regulations
Why?
BY cycling they keep better health meaning less cost to the tax payer. Lazy bastards in cars should pay double the road costs, registration and warrant costs on what they do now as they have higher cost on the health system and do more damage to our roads. Common sense approach really.
While I agree with the midget about reversing the stupid speed limit cuts, as you say it’s just an excuse to create havoc everywhere else. This disgusting little dwarf will be doing his best to lock in as many corrupt public-private partnerships and outright toll roads as he can, which Labour will then fail to nationalize when they get back in.
A serious government would contract with the Chinese about getting some real rail built, and establish a subsidized national bus company to give Ritchies and the various regional cowboys enough competition that we would have public transport on the level of comfort and safety as say, Vietnam. It would hold the CEOs of Shell and BP upside down until they pay to restore our refinery that they destroyed. We don’t need more roads, we need more functioning public transport and more energy security and less traffic cops so there’s more room to open the taps on your XR8.
Prior to roger douglas and his all bought and paid for criminal minions, and no, not those cute ones, we paid our taxes then built first-world basic infrastructures. After roger douglas and his all bought and paid for criminal minions, and no, not those cute ones, rogers minions stole those public assets that we the public paid for and fuck anyone who uses a word other than stolen.
Our shit’s been pinched. It’s that fucking simple. Our money’s been pinched. Our time, energy and materials used by them and spent by us on us for us has been pinched and now privateer cunts use our shit to fizz themselves up on the logical fallacy that is the money laundering scam that’s the ‘share market’ but what’s worse they then charge us for using our shit as they inflate costs of usage and then invest in maintenance scams involving their mates in contracting firms and all’s tax de-fucking-ductable!
Forget fucking around chit-chatting the ins and outs of a cat’s arse and lets simply say fucking NO!
But wait! There’s more! If we don’t get heard saying ‘No!’ Then that, in and of itself becomes the primary problem which surely requires primary focusing. WHY, can’t we say no to those horrible little cunts who’re making our fucking lives expensive thus untenable?
Don’t go all weak tea and moo me moo! Get fucking angry!
Example: Traffic cones. How many of the stupid fucking things do you see polluting the views of the concrete and bleak? Quite a few right? DO you know how much one traffic cone costs to protect the terminally stupid from themselves?
” The New Zealand Transport Agency (NZTA) spent $786 million on road cones and temporary traffic management (TTM). ”
$443 million was spent on road cones and TTM for maintenance and operations
$343 million was spent on road cones and TTM for capital projects
Semen Brown-nose the Shrimp Master’s eyes watered apparently. But no doubt only for as long as the contractors reached down into his pockets with a little something to say thanks. Aye boys?
One wonders how many of those same criminal minions were twisted in the same way Ron Brierley is, hmm.
Increasing fares on Auckland’s public transport due to ‘slashing’ subsidies? What role central government? Don’t Auckland rate payers subsidize the city’s public transport? And what a cost it is when a good many bus routes off-peak don’t pay their way, yet operators appear to be contracted irrespective of how many passengers actually ride the bus. Is the answer to reduce the frequency of unprofitable routes, fiddle with the zoning, increase fares, ie, reduce subsidies, provide disincentives for motorists, build more cycleways? All of the above? Someone you would hope is not just pocketing the salary and are working towards solutions. Wait for the fancy new rail network in Auckland. At what cost? Whose going to be paying for that?
The secret is to be so insane no-one notices.