Labour finally delivers with public transport policy that saves commuters $120 per month
Oh thank you sweet Jesus…
Labour reveals public transport fare cap in long-awaited election policy
The Labour Party has pledged to cap public transport fares at $20 per week, in its first election policy announcement since the Budget last month.
The long-awaited announcement is a sign the party is finally kicking into campaign mode, after months of asking New Zealanders to be patient and wait for the Government’s Budget to set the lay of the land.
Under the policy, public transport fares in Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch would be capped at $20 per week starting July next year. For other areas, the cap would be $10 per week.
Any rides taken after those thresholds would be free.
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…Labour have learnt from their dreadful GST off fresh fruit and vegetables fiasco and devised policy that is actually going to make a meaningful impact on working peoples lives.
Right now in Auckland, the cost for unlimited rides on public transport is $50 a week for commuters, by capping it at $20 a week, commuters in Auckland will save $120 per month!
For many, many, many Aucklanders, that amount extra a month in your pocket is nothing to sneeze at!
It is a means for working people, students and beneficiaries who commute each month to save $120 every single month in a cost of living crisis.
This is what Governments sould be doing, subsidising the actual real world costs of people.
For tradies and those who don’t catch public transport, you might feel you get nothing, but that isn’t true.
Capping public transport to $20 a week means far more people will get out of their cars and take public transport.
That means less people are on the road!
That means you get more efficient motorways that aren’t gridlocked.
This is the sort of policy Labour needs, and they must promote the saving of $120 each month.
This is an amazing start and worth the wait!
You know it’s great policy when every right winger and sundry are attacking it rather than concentrating on their own unpopular policies.
It’s in the bag. Pop the bubbly.
Oh, for fucks sake. The Chipkins is a neoliberal apologist.
Solution.
There isn’t one other than to get drunk and hope to die on the sofa.
While I share your skepticism regarding politicians I can assure you that there’s more in life to hope for than getting drunk and hoping to die on the sofa. There’s beauty in nature, many decent kind people across all nationalities and faith systems, so instead of letting the bad examples get you down get to know the best people and there’s also the best gift of all which can be yours by faith.
How about giving the voters 50 grand a year accommodation benefit and a super scheme to pay for their holiday home bomber? Or is a free bus ride with some come-down crazy waving a knife in your face as good as it gets with this lot?
You should have heard Heather Roy on RNZ tonight complaining about her not needing this relief as she is a public transport user, and what about rural people etc etc. Personally, if it takes cars off the road for people who don’t need to use public transport it is money very well spent. Also no one is suggesting you don’t help rural people but not every policy can help every fing individual. They also bitched about Auckland having a 50 dollar cap! So the government is only funding 30 a week. That’s still highly beneficial.
She’s a cunt Heather Roy of course she doesn’t need it but many others do. We need to keep improving public transport and the uptake of it especially in our big cities where the costs of living is too high.
Yes…exactly…as just one example…it’s mainly the rural schools that are benefitting from the recent solar panels on school rooves announcement… so it’s swings and roundabouts..
Also.. rural areas that get damaged by these 1 in 100 year weather events…that are happening every year now…even though many still think climate change is a ‘greeny’ hoax ..get direct government financial support…which of course is paid for by every taxpayer…swings and roundabouts.
Don’t think for a minute you will get impartiality from Heather Roy.
” Labour have learnt from their dreadful GST off fresh fruit and vegetables fiasco and devised policy that is actually going to make a meaningful impact on working peoples lives ”
Let’s keep the momentum coming.
A definite public ride in the right direction.
On the other hand a different take.
LABOUR’S announcement of a capped public transport fare—$20 in the major cities and $10 in rural areas—marks the beginning of its slow-drip campaign strategy. It is classic Labour: a small, contained, fiscally tidy gesture dressed up as a bold intervention. The party wants to signal that it “gets” the cost-of-living crisis while never straying far from the neoliberal orthodoxy it has spent decades defending. It is a balancing act Labour has tried to master: posing as the champion of working people while ensuring the economic model that produces inequality remains untouched.
https://nzagainstthecurrent.blogspot.com/2026/06/buisness-as-usual-and-greens-are.html
Yep… well thought through policy and a very professional execution of the announcement and question and answer session.
This is what having the adults back in the room looks like as opposed to the usual bumbling amateur hour on display by The Coalition of The Economic Illiterates.