Cutting transport subsides won’t lift social interaction or the economy
This…
Transport subsidies for elderly and disabled people reduced
The government is cutting transport subsidies for elderly and disabled people from 75% to 65%.
The Total Mobility scheme provides discounted taxis and public transport fares for those with long-term impairments.
…and this…
Auckland Transport fares, parking fees to increase
Auckland Transport says its bus, train and ferry fares will increase by 5.1% on average across its network from next month, and fees for on-street parking and carparks it manages are also going up.
…won’t lift social interaction or the economy and will actively hurt the poorest amongst us!
At a time when Zamdani is pushing for free public transport, ours keep making it expensive and the Political Left in NZ have zero response other than hand wringing.
The speed with which we are going backwards now is extraordinary.
Here’s the simple truth.
We need to have a publicly owned public transport network that is free to use. No other measure will get Aucklanders out of their cars and return a social and environmental equity quite like free public transport.
A truly progressive political party that wants to do something meaningful for the environment would nationalise the public transport system overnight.
The climate crisis is only getting hotter and more dangerous, investment into mass public transport is going to be the only way forward, the time for getting messed around by a private company clipping the ticket on an essential infrastructure is over.
Nationalise all public transport and start running it like the essential service it is!
We urgently need to shift people out of private transport and onto public transport.
This would have an enormous benefit on the poorest amongst us who pay 20% of their wage on transport while taking vast numbers of people off the roads in their cars.
We must nationalise our public transport fleet and look at vast new investment inside cities and intercity.
That includes a vast upgrade on rail and a new domestic in shore shipping networks.
The Truck industry have had political dominance for too long.
Rather than continue to subside the NZ Trucking Mafia, we should subsidise public transport.
The floods you are seeing, the scorching temperatures, the heat waves – ALL of this is happening at speeds and jumps in temperature far outside where Scientists were expecting.
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Everything this ugly, cruel CoC meddle with NEVER improves the lives of the workers, disabled and needy. It’s all targeted towards the mealy mouthed RW enablers. Luxon is a sadist but has the gall to call himself a Christian! Increasing bus/train/ferry fares is so dumb it defies belief. The less it costs people the more likely they are to use these public services thus taking vehicles off the road and assisting our pollution imprint. Shouldn’t they also be heralding ‘carless days’ and ‘car sharing’? We are such a dim-witted country, so committed to vehicles at the expense of our environment. FGS wake up NZ, you are on the brink of many catastrophes but many of you are so blinkered you actually don’t believe it will ever happen to you or your loved ones! Talk about heads in sand!
Nicola calls Labour the party of more taxes yet under her watch our car registrations have gone up by 50$, petrol is up, food is up, public transport is going up making it more expensive to get to work. And council services will all go up if they cap rates as the money has to come from somewhere due to local water done not so well under National.