Comments on: Another Nail in the Public Transport Coffin

By: Auckland Turist

Auckland Turist — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 12:28:37 +0000

As a well travelled tourist, I find Auckland’s public transport system simply *shocking*! I haven’t seen anything as bad in developed world except for some US cities. Europe, Asia and even Australia and Wellington kicks Auckland in the nuts!

By: tc

tc — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 22:23:49 +0000

This really is depressing stuff. I think we can safely say that none of this stuff is really Joyce’s idea, he is just peddling and signing off on what the National party line is and has been for a long time. I knew National and their car addicted policy makers would be bad for Auckland but I never realised they would so quickly act to repeal so many of these laws that will have long term positive benefits. One fear I have is that the establishment of the new Auckland Super council gives them a free hand in re-establishing ARTA along the lines that they want, and this almost certainly won’t be along the lines of an organisation that will benefit PT in Auckland.

By: john

john — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 10:18:13 +0000

maybe we could sue for misrepresentation… :p) Joyce is clearly the Minister of Roads, not the Minister of Transport…

By: jarbury

jarbury — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 03:02:32 +0000

Well effectively he’s proposing the repeal of something that hasn’t really taken much effect yet – the good old “take it away before they knew how good it would be” approach that National seems keen on. I can’t see any justification for this though, other than “Infratil want us to do this”. Seem like Steven Joyce is little more than a figurehead for both Infratil and the Road Transport Forum.

This Act is essential for integrated ticketing, and for the improvement of our public transport system into an effective and logical system. Without ARTA having some control over the commercial routes we will never get anywhere.

By: George Darroch

George Darroch — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 02:53:59 +0000

This is disgusting. What a complete and utter ideologue.

Does the fool not realise that operators will simply serve point to point in rush hours, overcrowding these buses, which is where the profit is, and cut out the roads and suburbs and hours that do not suit them. As a result, public transport becomes a nightmare, and completely unreliable as a form of transport.

Auckland is in for a transport nightmare.

By: Tom Semmens

Tom Semmens — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 21:40:57 +0000

He is the Road Transport Forum’s wet dream. In fact, he is so closely aligned with them that one wonders about the dreaded ‘corruption” word.