Suck it Aucklanders, the Boomer King will finally punish car owners the way he hurts public transport
MPs prepare to brave the response to congestion charging
Hahahahaha.
Suck it Auckland.
The vast, vast, vast swathe of Auckland has NO IDEA the roads are about to be privatised.
They are just trying to grind out a living during a cost of living crisis in a. gridlocked city AND THEN they will be told they are being charged for that.
The bullshit used to support congestion charges are that when they are adopted it sees a decrease in emissions and traffic, but in every single city they have tried this in they have high density public transport, in Auckland we have shit public transport!
Congestion charges will only cause more poverty and misery because there isn’t any fucking public transport infrastructure.
When nAucklanders get blindsided by this, they will scream for blood and demand to know who did it, so your starting hatred should go to the Boomer King, then National, then ACT, then NZF, then Labour and then the Greens.
The Māori Party were the ONLY ONES who refused to vote for this.
Watching the coming shock wave of fury from Aucklanders when they are told how much they will have to pay to sit in gridlock will be beautiful.
TDB will be reminding you all who to blame with your rage the moment Auckland realises what is coming.
Happy Days.
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The vast majority of the poor don’t own cars. So this will effect the middle classes most. Wiat until the see the underground road charges. In Brisbane Australia on a regular work day it’s a minimum $60 for the day. I mean retail is just going to get fucked over in so many ways they must love it.
Out of the (regional-fuel-tax) pot and into the (congestion-charge) fire.
His promise ‘no road cones’.
The result. Still heaps of road cones, congestion charges, empty pink gold plated cycle lanes.
In another thread you said:
“‘Woke’ is when you eliminate class solidarity in favour of seeing the world through the lens of identity.”
Now, “boomer” is definitely an identity, i.e. an inherent characteristic that an individual cannot do anything about, such as gender, race or age. By calling Brown a “boomer” you are undermining class solidarity by focusing on identity. This is because it attributes Brown’s willingness to punish the poor and middle class with a regressive flat tax to his being a certain age, not to the insulating effect of his wealth. And there are plenty of non-wealthy boomers who will be caught by this charge.
By the way, to make congestion charging non-regressive, make it a fixed percentage of the market value of the car. Sure, there’s some back-end IT plumbing to enable that, but it is much fairer as a result, because it equalises the deterrent effect of the charges across the population.
Nah, this mess has been 70 years in the making.
Aucklanders voting for the cheapest roading and public transport “solutions” time and time again. And again.
They’ve nobody to blame but themselves.
100% agree ,people always vote for the cheapest rates parrot at election time .
Doubtful. Look at Aucklanders debt levels (over $12 billion!). people clearly vote to spend a lot of money they don’t collect from rates.
https://oag.parliament.nz/2012/ltps-2012-22/appendix2.htm
you could run auckland from an office in Mumbai with a GIS system, an internet connection and a list of independent contractors. just map it and tender it out.
Yes if Sir Dove Myer Robinson had been successful rail transport would be Auckland’s crowning glory.
Public transport should be free ,that would fix congestion ASAP .
The beauty of these schemes that no one ever realises until it’s too late is that they are designed by global far right think tanks like the Atlas Network, so it’s not really even about congestion charges or pollution or increasing productivity through better traffic flows. Sure, that’s a bonus.
It’s all about validating them tracking you and watching every movement you make.
rangi. Correct. That’s why Auckland needs the cycle lanes lurching all over mad Wellington, with costly Rainbow pedestrian crossings for the foot weary leading straight into McDonalds.
Wellington rate payers also pay for the profligate WCC to fund sex education for the online tracked transgender community, addressing practices which neither grandma nor I were acquainted with, being rather busy perfecting our pothole leaping, feeding kids that stuff called food, and paying by cash so that the bastards don’t know what we’re buying, or where, or why.
Don’t worry. Us boomer central suburbs types don’t need the motorway and can uber or train into the city easily enough. Of course, a few bucks in congestion charges means nothing when I fill up my Bentley. guffaw guffaw – user pays peasants. pay to play society. please use the servants entrance on your way out.
The boomers are nearly all retired: we don’t commute.
Get what you vote for.