By promising billions in roads, National making same bribery mistake for election they made in Northland
So National’s response to the powerful, evocative and visionary speech from Jacinda is $10billion more in bloody roads!
If only National loved the homeless as much as they love roads! Can we pretend the mental health system is a road and get National to fund it properly?
There are three main issues with this announcement by National.
Firstly, there are better mass transport options with rail instead of those roads, National are simply promoting old thinking that has led to the current clusterfuck of gridlock we see in all our major cities. National have brought in half a million new migrants over their 3 terms and not built one new hospital – our infrastructure underfunding can’t cope with National’s only growth mechanism which is mass immigration.
Secondly, all promising $10billion in new roads shows is how much political power the road construction industry has over the infrastructure agenda of the country. If a new Labour led Government replaces National in September, they will need to quickly grapple with the power of this group.
Thirdly, all National are showing here is political expediency and it smells off to the voter. Why do National only care when we are 3 months out from the election? It reeks of the same mistake National made in Northland in the by-election when it sounded like their promised 10 bridges were actually a threat to voters.
In this example it just seems disingenuous that National who have created this mass immigration growth are only now getting around to building the infrastructure required for that growth.
It doesn’t matter what the problem is, National’s solutions is build a bloody road. Surely in the 21st Century we deserve a better political vision than this?
National are insanely short-sighted, imo criminally so All these new roading projects produce is ever more cars, while wasting massive swathes of useable land and creating eye-sores.
My policy would be SHUT down one lane on ALL three lane roads and set it aside for public transport. How would you feel trapped in gridlock and see a bus swosh past you on a road you aren’t allowed to drive on? Complement this with light rail and you solve the problem fairly inexpensively.
I heard a spokesman for the truckers say on TV that he would like to see dedicated truck lanes for the Auckland isthmus as cars are parking on the sides of busy roads and impeding their way in the busy traffic. I thought lordy me where will all the public bus traffic go as they are usually given that part of the road as dedicated.
Bring back trains – at least there will be lives saved from these juggernauts which frighten the bejesus out of us all hogging the highways and driving way over their speed limits.
Road construction is about the limit of the National Governments intellect.
All they need to do is hand the policy over to private enterprise, write out the check, mission achieved.
No effort, and no vision.
This is the most dumb arse collection of numb skulls we have ever had to endure.
Can we pretend a car is a house and people use their number plate as their fixed abode because that is the direction we are heading if the nasty gnats get another term
On that logic, it’s only a matter of time until a photo from a speed camera is sufficient proof of address.
Conservatives did succeed in dismantling employment relations contracts, OIA requests, heavily suppress statistical numbers and the National Party wonder why people don’t accept there version of reality.
Does he not realise that the internal combustion engine is yesterday´s technology. Is he thick or something.
When Bill said Labour was tired, old and had no new ideas it sounded like he was describing his own party
Yeah, very true!!
If National has ever had an original idea, it is news to me.
Ideas cause headaches to them.
Pot calling the Kettle Black ?
1000% true Michele just brilliant.
Next they’ll find Bill pulling on young girls ponytails too?
English is just walking into walls every time now as a punch drunk boxer would maybe he is crackling up???
National love roads so much they are making Kiwis even those that work live on them. Get rid of these bastards, they are a national shame.
Oh Louis you are a legend with words.
National = living in cars on roads.
f…k do those stupid arrogant tories think we have amnesia we are still waiting for our reduced power cost ( Max Bradford) The Dunedin hospital was the last elections promise and where is the bridges bullshert Bridges
Its always the opposite of what these hollow Nats promise Michelle.
This song sums up National…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWtCittJyr0
Lol yes it does!!
Why do National only are when we are 3 months out from the election?
care?
They’ve got a thing about ten. Ten bridges for Northland, ten fancy roads.
Maybe it’s a sign they’re going to lose ten seats.
Pete,
Maybe they’ll have Flavell come out with his uke and sing 10 guitars??
ROFL ha ha ha PERFECT!!!
Hmm. Could we sell the NatACTs on the idea that the “road to mental health” is a real road of national significance? ;P
TO; Minister of Transport Simon Bridges,
6th July 2017.
Dear Simon.
We send you (below) a copy of this transport minuted meeting held in Napier last week as evidence of the environmental freight trucking disaster your administration are setting our community up for in Napier as trucking volumes are steadily increasing.
As you choose to wind down rail; when TRUCK FREIGHT IS TAKING ALL FREIGHT FROM WELLINGTON following the closed Centre Port facility in Wellington is now being shipped by road to Napier and other regions also placing another 500 truck trips a day onto our already gridlocked roads in HB/Gisborne now.
Read the minutes of the meeting and the previous meeting held in Napier in 2014 between NZTA and residents groups.
We have formerly requested the National Party candidate David Elliott at a meeting with him last week to invite you to meet with us this month in Napier at this venue we held last Thursdays meeting at and now request formerly that you attend a meeting with us all this month at your convenience with David Elliott also.
Please take this opportunity to respect our community wishes for the health & safety of our families in our communities by attending our requested meeting with you as soon as possible.
Your written response is respectfully requested.
My father and his father before him both managed (and owned in my dad’s case) roading construction companies. Between the two of them, they were deeply involved in the construction of Auckland’s motorways, arterial routes, side streets, driveways, tennis courts, carparks, and even a good deal of the harbour bridge. My family literally built half of Auckland, in that sense. Guess who they voted for, no matter what? And guess why we don’t talk about politics, me being a Labour supporter and all? I was expected to take over the company, but I wanted to write poetry and study foreign languages instead. That didn’t go down well.