Election 2020 - Party Policies - Transport - Roads
25th Jul 20, 5:56am
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- Remove infrastructure decision-making powers from ministers and vest them in an independent New Zealand Infrastructure Corporation.
- Cooperate with private infrastructure funders to significantly increase the capacity of New Zealand's road and rail networks.
- Decide where to build new road and rail lines not based on votes at stake, but on congestion levels and safety considerations.
- Be judged based on transparent performance indicators, like the average speed reached on major arterial routes.
- Follow international best practice and replace ineffective and unfair fuel taxes with road pricing, like that used in Singapore. The demand for road space outstrips supply. Instead of rationing road space by queuing, road pricing would encourage commuters to find other travel times, routes and transport modes. At the busiest times, those who take public transport would save the most.
- Read more here.
- Increase the quality and safety of existing roads through increased road maintenance and safety promotion.
- Review whether compulsory purchase powers under the Public Works Act are still appropriate for ports, airports and roading authorities.
- Ensure local authorities better coordinate utility work programmes on public roads.
- Review the road user charges system and investigate whether it should be replaced by fuel tax or extended to other vehicles over time.
- Require all road controlling authorities (e.g. Councils, NZTA) to have in place plans to support active modes, and specific contact points for walking and cycling issues, within three years, as a condition of funding.
- Make rail and road access costs fair and equitable.
- Read more here and here.
- Building $6.8 billion dollars’ worth of transport projects across the country as part of the NZ Upgrade Programme. This includes major roads, road safety improvements, and rail. It’s expected to create 800-1000 new jobs in our civil construction industry as the first five projects get underway in the next 12 months, and 7,000 to 9,000 direct opportunities for our wider supply chain.
- Read more here.
- A road and rail tunnel under the Waitemata Harbour, likely to be from Esmonde Road on the North Shore to Wynyard Quarter in the CBD.
- East West Link will provide a new transport connection on the northern side of the Mangere Inlet between Onehunga. It will connect SH20 in Onehunga and SH1 at Mt Wellington.
- Build the Christchurch to Ashburton expressway, delivering approximately 60km of expressway between the Christchurch Southern Motorway and Ashburton.
- Build the Cambridge to Piarere expressway, delivering a 16km four-lane expressway between the completed Cambridge section of the Waikato expressway and the State Highway 1 / State Highway 29 intersection.
- Build the Belfast to Pegasus Motorway, including the Woodend Bypass.
- Read more here.
- Not allow our roads to be privatised or corporatized
- Further support policies that ensure our whole road network is properly funded so that regional New Zealand does not lose out in favour of our main centres
- Read more here.
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1 Comments
No use building new roads when the existing ones are in a deplorable state. The section of state highway in front of my place was rebuilt from the foundations up 6 months ago now its rutted from truck subsidence and full of pot holes. 6 months should not be acceptable life for a state highway. The money needs to be spent once and the road built to last at least 25 years. Now I'm back to single lane with road cones for god knows how long. The only benefit is I dont get earthquakes from trucks hitting potholes at 100kph .
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