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Government releases 10-year transport plan for consultation (www.rnz.co.nz)

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Wellington CBD to Airport - second Mount Victoria Tunnel and upgrades to Basin Reserve/Arras Tunnel

Kinda looks like we will be getting this no matter what. About bloody time, too.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

So more roads. Fantastic. That works really well.

Build trains. Dig tunnels.

incentivise working from home if possible.

More hubs for trains and actually build fast trains. Not these crap ones we have.

Look to remove as many cars of the road as possible and especially remove bad drivers from the roads.

Build out cycle paths and pay people to use them. Pedestrize as many areas as possible.

Cars are required for some things but they aren't necessary to commute back and forth from a stationary location.

More public transport that's paid for by road users. Making walking easier and stop focusing everything on cars.

Fucking govt

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I'm with you on the philosophy, it's totally flawed to say "we have a traffic problem so let's build more roads", the Hutt is tragic on the weekends in no small part due to the fact the trains are always not running for maintainece, plus there's no good transport out to wainui etc.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

If you spend all your time building roads then people will tightly use those roads. Population of Welly isn't even that big and it's full to the brim with cars. Huge cars that are unnecessary and badly driven.

Remove cars from the roads should be the ultimate goal. Some jobs require vehicles and they should be on the roads but a vast majority commute into the town and then sit in an office all day.

We absolutely need school buses and stop parents picking up kids from schools.

Would likely be a good idea to get shuttle buses to pick up commutes too. We don't all need to drive our utes and SUVs to the city centre every single day. C'mon now.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Part of the issue is people are doing different things on the weekends that aren't easy to do with public transport, such as shopping, sports, visiting friends etc.

It's the same in Wellington, traffic is often worse during the weekend.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Cope and seethe, lol.

Although the Mt Vic tunnel will also improve public transport through to the eastern suburbs, and light rail to Island bay is still planned.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Tunnels are great. Anything to reduce the over reliance on roads. Roads just fill with more cars. Considering Auckland only has millions plus folk in it. Mist have less car users and it's a horrible driving experience. Keep pumping money into roads and find it doesn't fix any issues.

Public transportation is the way forward. Cheaper and better for the environment if it's executed correctly.

Far too much money is squander as a few get rich while we the tax layers are worse off