A few weeks ago I did a post on how traffic volumes were continuing to fall across the state highway network.
As a bit of a follow up, I have compiled the following monthly comparisons since the start of 2008:
Jan 2008 v Jan 2007: -0.6%
Feb 2008 v Feb 2007: -2.0%
Mar 2008 v Mar 2007: +0.4%
Apr 2008 v Apr 2007: -4.0%
May 2008 v May 2007: -0.3%
Jun 2008 v Jun 2007: -7.9%
Jul 2008 v Jul 2007: -8.0%
Aug 2008 v Aug 2007: -7.5%
Sep 2008 v Sep 2007: -5.5%
Oct 2008 v Oct 2007: -1.6%
Nov 2008 v Nov 2007: -5.6%
Dec 2008 v Dec 2007: -0.6%
Jan 2009 v Jan 2008: -0.8%
Feb 2009 v Feb 2008: -2.4%
Mar 2009 v Mar 2008: -3.7%
Apr 2009 v Apr 2008: +2.4%
May 2009 v May 2008: -1.6%
Remember, the government is taking money away from all other parts of the transport budget so that it can significantly boost funding for new state highways. The very same state highways along with we are seeing the above FALLS in traffic volumes.
It’s like Steven Joyce is taking money away from expanding the capacity for a product whose sales are growing (public transport) and putting it into expanding production capacity for a product with declining sales (state highways). This doesn’t make much sense to me.
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