Transport Minister Annette King is predictably trumpeting the NZ Transport Strategy 2008 as a great leap forward for the transport sector. However, closer inspection of the plan reveals little real attempt to address the problems of the vulnerability of NZ’s economy to unstable oil supplies and prices, not to mention environmental concerns arising from burning […]
Auckland Regional Council (ARC) Chairman, Mike Lee, has rounded on the Automobile Association accusing it of trying to sabotage the $1bn rail electrification project. A furious Lee claims this is the intent of a letter the AA has written to him by challenging the legality of the ARC’s preparations for a regional fuel tax to […]
National has signalled it will spend up large on transport infrastructure if it wins the treasury benches in October in order to boost economic growth but it will borrow to help pay the bill which may be in the form of infrastructure bonds. Party leader, John Key, indicated borrowing will rise two percentage points to […]
The country’s largest daily newspaper, the NZ Herald, has been extremely pro-National in most of its editorial content but this week it took aim at the party’s plans to look at public private partnerships (PPPs) to fund new transport infrastructure. Here in part is what the paper had to say in its editorial of 5 […]
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