Being an advocate for genuine transport options in this country would drive anyone mad imo, I don’t know how they do it for years on end.
The most basic infrastructure to enable public and active transport is continually challenged, subject to predatory delay and actual sabotage (tacks thrown on cycle paths, including this one).
Wellington seems particularly terrible for this, a city of nimbys and vested interests that want nothing to change, ever, because they already got theirs. But it doesn’t really work because every year things decay a little more, the traffic gets worse and so on.
Yeah it is. And bus lanes. You can at least get everywhere in a car on the existing road network, can’t say the same about other modes. There are huge gaps in coverage.
Doubling down on road infrastructure for cars without alternatives is monstrously expensive and only ends up making traffic even worse in the long run.
Just think how many problems it would solve if people heading towards Kilbirnie and Miramar could do so without interacting with the Wellington CBD. Imagine how much more pleasant the place would be.
The estimated cost of that is nearly 10 times what transmission Gully cost, and it’d be certainly more than that in practice. Ridiculous amounts of money, just shift some of the peak capacity.
Pretty sure MPs across the spectrum have these interactions. Not sure if it’s the stress, the type of person that volunteers for the job, or just that some percent of the population is like this and MPs aren’t special.
We should pick MPs like we pick a Jury. People are randomly selected, some limited ability to challenge a selected person if they would be terrible, people serve their term but never again.
I’m not serious, but the more I wrote it the more I started to convince myself…
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