GUEST BLOG: John Tamihere – Auckland is in gridlock
Auckland is in desperate need of direction and clear decisive leadership.
That is what I have brought to the table by way of example with my Harbour Bridge & Penlink announcements.
Auckland is in gridlock.
It will not get better by doing nothing.
The harbour superstructure is a NZ Govt funded project and not funded by ratepayers.
Anyone that says it will bankrupt the city is simply not telling the truth. The choice is very clear you can wallow in the present failing status quo or change tomorrow.
John Tamihere is a candidate for the Auckland mayoralty
So the answer to gridlock is more cars, driven quicker into Auckland.
Thats hilarious…and so very retro.
Welcome to the “fundamental rule” of road congestion: adding road capacity just increases the total number of miles traveled by all vehicles.
https://www.nber.org/papers/w15376
TBH what pisses me off is the woke has successfully associated The Green Party of Aotearoa-New Zealand with the radical left and socially awkward.
More to the point, what other ratepayer assets are you going to flog off, John?
Instead of bullshit like this that wouldn’t fix a thing, and will never happen anyway under your leadership or not,bwe’ll all be paying shareholder dividends for our drinking water.
No one seems to have woken up to the fact that it doesn’t matter what you do with roads, nothing will solve Auckland’s gridlock.
There is only X amount of land space available. Even if you filled it all with roads, it won’t make the traffic flow any better or faster.
Making the roads wider won’t change anything either. It just means they fill up quicker and you’re back to square one – gridlock – only now you have 8 lanes of it instead of 6. At some point these 8 lanes will have to narrow down into two, at which point it will be the usual snarl up.
Couple this with the widespread inability for people to drive effectively and it is no wonder the roads are jammed.
The only practical solution is to reduce the number of vehicles on the existing roads. Public transport does that to a degree, but it doesn’t always go where people need to get to.
The answer to Auckland’s quite unsolvable problems is to divert its growth to elsewhere…..
Auckland Gridlock = National & John Key
Feeding the transport and oil barons.
What does Auckland produce you may ask? It has always been… Auckland’s business is business. Like a body’s circulation, the roads are arterial and capillary to business, to recreation, the flow is the important thing and the worst thing in Auckland are the endless roadworks which are slow progress, half unmanned and create blockage. Auckland’s roadworks simply need to be done fast and efficiently. Shift crews need to brought on and work around the clock until the job is complete. That’s how its done overseas. Instead of just days of work, we currently have weeks and months sometimes years, half the time no work is done, everyone trying to navigate past is frustrated. Auckland’s roadworks are everywhere and affect everyone There is no escape day or night, city or suburb. Lets get these jobs done and done fast so the crews can pack up and move on. Road cones are Auckland’s cancer!
Auckland produces cars and meth addicts IMHO
Tamihere on the road to nowhere
Cock ?
Oh great. Back to roads of national significance… Perhaps better public transport and cheaper would do the same thing and be more cost effective and recognise the precarious state of the climate. The idea is supposed to be to have less cars on the road not to increase the capacity for more.