National wants to add to Auckland’s gridlock

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1. ropata 1

   2 May 2018 at 5:35 pm

   how the hell did Simon come up with those numbers… is steven joyce still trying to do maths for the Nats?

   maybe he counted the commercial vehicle fleet in his dodgy stats for ‘households’, it makes no sense
   • Draco T Bastard 1.1

     2 May 2018 at 9:28 pm

     I haven’t seen any indication that National actually does any maths. All numbers that they mention seem to be BS invented to support their failed ideology because reality doesn’t.
2. Tamati Tautuhi 2

   2 May 2018 at 5:37 pm

   …. and National wonder why we have gridlock in Auckland when you add 100,000 people a year to the City without upgrading your Infrastructure ?
3. Draco T Bastard 3

   2 May 2018 at 9:26 pm

   You would need a typical Auckland family to have 11 members to back up Bridges’s claim.

   Doesn’t Bill English have about that many kids?

   So, maybe they think that all families are the same as Bill English’s.

   Whatever the figures are Bridges’s claim needs to be treated with complete skepticism.

   Five days ago National’s figures were hundreds of dollars a year. They are now $700 although the context looks a bit rubbery. At this rate the figure should hit $1,000 a year any time now.

   The RWNJs, as per usual, have to lie to get any traction.

   Thing is, people will believe it because they want to and they won’t do their own calculations. It’s the ignorance caused by the latter that allows National’s lies to work.
   • Tricledrown 3.1

     3 May 2018 at 1:20 am

     Nationals policy of just build more motorways will cost Aucklanders thousands per year not 100’s.
     A car stuck in gridlock iddling is going to use $20 a day going nowhere .
     Businesses charge 25%more for services to cover having to higher more staff and vehicles to provide the same level of service.
     National ostriches who ostricise the New Zealand battlers with lies and spin.
4. Graeme 4

   2 May 2018 at 9:39 pm

   So, if soimon is going to axe the Regional Fuel Tax for Auckland, who’s going to pay for Auckland’s transport infrastructure?

   Obviously someone other than Aucklanders, try running that line in South Canterbury or Southland soimon.

   Or is the plan to not have any new transport infrastructure in Auckland, then we won’t need the Regional Fuel Tax.
5. Timeforacupoftea 5

   2 May 2018 at 9:51 pm

   I do wonder what the true costs will be from this RF-TAX as when it passes onto all transporters, council trucks lawnmowers etc.
   Groceries, retailers, taxi, vets, dentist, council rates.

   I would think it quite inflationary.
   I should stop wondering, we normally get a wage increase following ciggy and alcohol tax increases, I guess it will be the same here.
   • joe90 5.1

     2 May 2018 at 10:09 pm

     Gridlock, the cost of the status quo is the problem, not your mentions of quite inflationary.
     • In Vino 5.1.1

       2 May 2018 at 11:08 pm

       Hmmm, but dumber and dumber.

       Do I understand that Auckland has 800 new cars per week (or month?) put on the roads?
       There will never be any end to gridlock while such a stupid situation exists.

       Back when we had a healthier society, cars were hard to import. Deregulation and destruction of tariffs (bringing cheap imports) have got us to the situation where cars are now far too cheap for our own good. And gridlock will inevitably persist until we fix that problem.

       Heresy?? Are we so glued to the deregulation and low-tariff thing as to blind us to the obvious solution?
   • Tricledrown 5.2

     3 May 2018 at 1:27 am

     Less people on motorways more using public transport means you save heaps on fuel and time.
     Time wasted in gridlock is holding Aucklands economy back reducing productivity by 25% and the NZ economy by 7%.
     The flow on effects of Auckland being our biggest exporting and importing port as well as major tourist hub .
     National is hostage to it’s funders fundamentally griffters.
   • Tricledrown 5.3

     3 May 2018 at 1:33 am

     Timeforacup of realitea.
     The more gridlock the more waste of fuel machinery time loss of productivity is 10 times more for gridlock.
     The narrow istmus of Auckland will only thrive with major investment in public transport 8 times cheaper to construct 18 times more efficient to run per passenger km.
6. Michelle 6

   3 May 2018 at 9:59 am

   Who cares what simon 10 bridges 10% said he will be a gone burger by then
7. tsmithfield 7

   3 May 2018 at 12:07 pm

   The problem with the regional fuel tax is that fuel companies can spread it around the country, as even Jacinda admits:

   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=peiJKDSHasQ

   So, it is scarcely regional if everyone pays for it anyway.

   Far better are toll roads. Only the users pay, and it usually makes much more sense to use the toll road compared to the free alternatives due to fuel and time savings.
   • lprent 7.1

     3 May 2018 at 12:20 pm

     And if your daft government had actually gotten off their arse and done the job they are paid for 8 years ago when they mooted it, we could do it.

     But since the lazy timid layabouts didn’t and in fact disn’t do anything else useful for Auckland except when they were dragged kicking and screaming to do some work, then you can just suck it up.

     We don’t have time for the kind of leisurely navel gazing that characterised National ‘action’.

     Since National are a useless bunch representing you, their underfunding of Auckland while stuffing more people into Auckland, we have multiple infrastructure deficits. Perhaps you should direct the criticism where it would do the most good.

     A mirror? Or the oil companies?
     • tsmithfield 7.1.1

       3 May 2018 at 12:50 pm

       Thanks for that.

       Rather than have a rant about the previous government, perhaps you could address the problem with the regional fuel tax.

       I understand the government has also announced an increase in the national fuel levy on top of the Auckland one.

       So, if the fuel companies are going to double up on people outside of Auckland by passing on the regional fuel tax as well as the increased levy, then why even bother having it? Why not just increase the National fuel levy accordingly, and dedicate some of the revenue to Auckland.
8. R.P Mcmurphy 8

   3 May 2018 at 9:30 pm

   I thought lp had been remarkably fairminded and even handed. the whole nationals party schtick has been to run everything down and then get some financiers in to suck up the profits from a shonkey PPP and then tell everybody that it is a natural law that some should own everything. Then they hide their intentions under a barrel of friedmanite malarkey. Nasty nasty people.

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