You need roads AND public transport you morons!
Apart from National being the ones who underfunded road maintenance to the pothole collapse its become and apart from National who allowed heavier trucks from their mates in the Trucking Industry and Forestry Industry to rip up those roads in the first place, the debate around our collapsing road network goes from ‘FUCK ALL CYCLISTS to BUILD MORE ROADS’.
It’s the right who underfund our roading network, it’s the Left who have to pay for the public transport infrastructure.
Look, I’m not saying we don’t need better roads, I’m staying you can’t build those roads witho0ut building into it public transport options.
It’s not one or the other, you need roads PLUS you need public transport infrastructure built into those roads!
All National are promising is grossly underfunded roading programs with none of the public transport funding necessary to make those roads efficient!
Our transport emissions are a huge part of our pollution profile, we need free public transport in Auckland, Wellington, Tauranga, Christchurch and Dunedin and we need far better public transport upgrades everywhere ALONGSIDE building more roads.
Ignoring one without the other is pure bullshit that will provide no solutions!
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The insanity of spending a proposed $35 billion on the Waitemata Funnel Project captured in a single graphic. Above.
Labour and National answer to traffic congestion and pollution, funnel even more traffic into the already congested Auckland network.
We are in the midst of a climate emergency, we need to cut our emissions.
The lighting, ventilation, and continuous pumping to keep it dry, alone will use as much electricity as the town of Pukekohe needing Huntly to keep on burining coal. This is not even to mention the increased emissions from vehicles.
How about this:. Discourage private car use and congestion by not building a Funnel under the Waitemata Harbour.
To discourage private vehicle congestion and pollution even more, put some of that $35 billion into free and frequent zero emissions public transport on dedicated busways the length of our existing motorway system and harbour bridge(s). The rest into the ailing public health system.
https://at.govt.nz/about-us/sustainability/auckland-transport-carbon-dioxide-emissions-targets/
Rail, sold ,how we left with.
Privatization is irrelevant to an independent human government.
What has been flogged off to corrupt dogs can be taken back, and there’s no reason to pay a cent of compensation, either.
National builds roads. The only motorway projects delivered in the last decade were all contracts that had been let by National.
As you note, Labour does public transport. Except in the last 6 years they haven’t. Not a single major contract has been let by Labour on a public transport project. Even CRL was let by National.
To some extent I believe in the Yin and Yan of Politics. National does some things, Labour does others. As a whole it balances out. However, in this instance, Labour has not done their bit. To all intents and purposes they have not done anything significant transport wise over the last 6 years. So by their own standards, Labour has failed.
The one major thing Labour has done is EV incentives, which undoubtedly has boosted the uptake of EV’s. But that is hardly public transport. Rather it is a welcome incentive for well off voters in Devonport and Kelburn.