In a Herald article last Friday, Transport Minister Steven Joyce came out with the following straw man argument: “I don’t think anyone would buy the suggestion that that very, very expensive project should just be paid for by road users,” he said. In response, Transport Minister Steven Joyce is right, but no-one is […]
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The Government has done a press release on its review of the CBD rail tunnel: The review of the Business Case for the CBD Rail Link finds that the case for funding and building the rail link has not yet been made, and that the mix of options for meeting […]
Bob Scott has done a brilliant article summarising the folly of the Holiday Highway: A headline like “80 New Zealanders Sentenced to Death” would bring an outraged reaction if resulting from the actions of a Third World despot. But the reality is, that’s not the case. Rather it’s what could […]
A Beehive media release has announced: Transport Minister Steven Joyce has asked officials from the Ministry of Transport, the Treasury and the NZ Transport Agency to work with Auckland Transport, Auckland Council and other agencies to review the business case for a CBD rail link ahead of any further discussions […]
Steven Joyce responded to my article in the Sunday Star Times last week, as well as Rod Oram’s: Rod Oram’s second opinion piece on Auckland transport issues contains a further significant factual error, which results in him again overstating his case. It is simply incorrect to say that the proposed […]
Last week’s opinion piece by Transport Minister Steven Joyce started out well enough. “Having the right transport infrastructure in place is an important part of the export job,” he stated. “We need to get our goods to market more effectively and efficiently, we need to cater for more tourists (who […]
Last week SST columnist Rod Oram wrote an excellent piece on the economic folly of the Government’s Roads of National Significance. It was well researched and argued, and supported by a number of statistics. Today, Minister of Transport Steven Joyce has responded. In contrast this opinion piece is completely devoid […]
The Weekend Herald’s letter of the week is from Frank Hoffmann, and it sums up the current situation on transport funding: Transport Minister Steven Joyce should remember his Government has usurped Auckland’s planned method of funding transport. A surcharge on motor fuel was designed to make the road-user contribute a […]