Some of the less able bodied depend on being able to get out of a car that has pulled over to let them out. But able bodied cyclists need to come first?
Pierre No there weren't that many cars in the car lane and had the cyclist been in the lane I was in then I would have followed him at the 5k uphill he was doing. But I am prepared to put the buses welfare first but the cyclist was not ? And his private ...
Weka you asked another good question about what exactly the government wants on the green transport, less transport axis. So if I could wave a wand and suddenly every ICE vehicle in the country was electric and we had enough power to run them and no range ...
Who on earth is advising Labour for FFS. Shouldn't they mean "only home" for the peeps who wind up moving from Napier to Auckland sell and buy again and pay an increaed price? If you can't afford a mortgage then you are unlikely to be able to afford the ...
Lack of communication with most of the urban population too. Unless you are one of the country's 17000 urban cyclists. Not much off street parking in parts of Wellington so there is going to have to be something like a builders power box at the road edge ...
The wind farm outside Palnerston North seems to be getting more turbines.Of course operating for profit companies really don't get the right sort of signals to increase capacity. EV.s but not hybrids are being charged RUC charges ( thanks Andre) but and I ...
If the subsidies are set correctly hopefully we will get second hand imports of non plug in hybrids to help fill the gap for those who have unsought "range anxiety" Or even ex fleet vehicles of that sort which get to 120K in 18mths to 2 years
The cars do the same speed as the bus. The 5k per hour cuclist holds up traffic where there is not overtaking even in a relatively lightly traveled space.
Some of those double cabs are surprisingly cheap - don't know if that has anything to do with it.
Your are quite correct Weka and a lot of what you say applies to outer suburbs of the main cities and even south auckland. For the moment larger hybrids non plug in are about the best that the rural sector has to look at. But I do see the rural sector as ...
Dear Mickey, One thing you mentioned above worried me greatly- felt like a huge red flag-I assume that you are discussing the cycleway out west- it was this phrase. In my home turf we are also installing a cycleway as a trial. The effect is that a few ...
Aha per yesterday - looks like the current cycling bunch are in the demographic I observed. Plus I love the generalised pious hope that more pathways means the demographic changes. Frankly I can't see most of the women I know cycling to work, having a ...
And it does nobody any service when those who want a debate about effective transport spending are trolled as being motivated by "fear/hate" that's a distraction to stymie discussion.
I hope I did the numbers correctly but according to me the RUC of $76 per 1000 km equates to a car petrol tax (at 70c per litre plus Gst) for a car that uses about 94 litres of petrol per 1000 km so a usage of 9.4Litres/100km. But most of the cars around ...
There seems to be an awful lot being invested in "mode" change for speculative outcomes (no one seem willing to commit to any hard numbers here) and cycling seems to have overwhelmingly grabbed the space which also includes walking and public transport and...
Yep we need a good solution for those who buy end of life cars. I put it as the < $15k crowd and using a car with cheaper fuel would bring a big general benefit to them personally as well as the whole country. maybe subsidise the purchase of a new but ...
I'd have thought the rental car companies would be big enough to manage by themselves rather than involve the EECA(govt?). Just wave the big tax option around a little to concentrate their thoughts.
If bikes are so great why did people ever shift to cars? And last time I looked most of NZ still lived outside Auckland - but hey we should be so grateful that we want to pay for the bridge that is used by a small group of people from a very confined ...
I looked at the RUC stuff on the transport site. It wasn't very helpful I felt. Are RUC charges going on all EV's even the smaller vehicles not just those over 3.5 tonnes? And how does the RUC work for hybrid vehicles ? Or are they getting a free pass only...
Thinking more of the light fleets like rental cars.
Not sure when the policy comes in but we may see a peak in petrol buying before then?
Yeah a Roger Douglas style trickle down car policy. I'd have capped it at about $35k. But given that this country is generally fairly lightly populated, the density for major public transport is just not there in a lot of areas. If a road is not overused ...
With the whole of life economics favouring electric and hybrid over ICE vehicles - I would not have bothered subsidising the large fleet market. I'd make them pay the subsidy back, give them a short transition period and then wack them with the tax system ...
Me too as there are sub $30k models available. Maybe they will get passage by being low emission which I think is on the back end of the policy
Me too. Virtue does not have it's own reward? Sigh another illusion gone.
Well a bikelash is hardly surprising. Don't get me wrong I am not interested in building more grand road projects (the Key holiday highway being a good example) . Putting more money into public transport yes. But massive funding for a preferred leisure/...
Interesting point BW and I'm afraid I don't see farmers as the enemy. A lot of farming communities have been gutted by big biz buying up and forest planting or running industrial cow size cow farms. Yes there appear to be hybrid utes coming (but the toyota...
I was unclear what all these groups needed to "investigate" or was it a dodge to cover up prying into the personal affairs of their fellow citizens without checks nd balances. Any ideas anyone?
I have actually linked the figures in other comments. I have seen little linkage or even quoted numbers in return. Do they exist? The post is about the bridge No 3. It's expensive and caters to people in a limited area. Wedded to a pet project and blind to...
Umm so we should just spend huge amounts of money without demonstrating benefits? Cyclists are courting a huge backlash by wanting only their favoured form of transport and seeing it as the transport golden bullet. Without checking out other options and ...
The points I have made based on figures are 1. Cycling is used by only a very small part of the existing populations of the major cities. Even if this trebles it is still small. 2. There may be incidental health benefits as there are with a lot of ...
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