Election 2020 - Party Policies - Transport
11th Sep 20, 9:39am
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- Ensure National Environmental Standard includes clear and strict mechanisms able to be applied to vehicles, transport infrastructure and transport policy
- Regularly review and update vehicle exhaust emission standards for all vehicles entering the country to ensure that Aotearoa New Zealand imports vehicles built to the highest available standards.
- Introduce in-service vehicle emission requirements, and develop a comprehensive vehicle screening and assessment programme to ensure compliance.
- Support the transition to cleaner fuels for both private vehicles and those in the public fleet, and ensure there is an appropriate refuelling network in place for these alternative fuels.
- 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.
- Investing over $700 million for shovel ready transport projects such as cycleways, walkways, ports and roads, to help kick-start the post-COVID rebuild. In total the shovel ready projects will create more than 20,000 jobs up and down New Zealand.
- Fast-tracking critical job-rich infrastructure projects through changes to the Resource Management Act so projects can get started and stimulate our economy.
- Read more here.
- Create a new Crown Financial Institution, named the National Infrastructure Bank to provide finance and advice to central and local Government infrastructure projects.
- The Bank will have a role in ensuring that the Crown receives value for money from its infrastructure finance structures. It will provide an avenue for institutional investors such as the ACC, NZSuper Fund, iwi, Kiwisaver providers and Australian pension funds to take on investment risk in New Zealand infrastructure assets.
- Invest in New Zealand’s largest ever infrastructure programme, including $31 billion to upgrade our transport networks and de-clog our cities, $4.8 billion to fix our schools, and further investment to upgrade healthcare infrastructure.
- Read more here.
- Utilise New Zealand’s coastal shipping capabilities through championing initiatives such as “Blue Highways” and expanding our Merchant Fleet
- Build an inshore fishing vessel industry further capitalising on New Zealand as a maritime nation with emphasis on establishing these industries in our regions (Whanganui, Taranaki)
- Continue to develop infrastructure and projects that help incentivise the use of electric vehicles in New Zealand
- Create incentives that encourage businesses to electrify their vehicle fleets as well as depreciation measures to support a second-hand electric vehicle market in New Zealand
- 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
- Ensure access to quality, affordable public transport for people in all major population centres, and in regional areas where there is a need
- Continue to support regional rail initiatives and complete geotech research on re-opening the Wairoa to Gisborne rail line
- Secure funding to build a rail spur from Puhinui station to Auckland airport
- Build and complete the Marsden spur linking Northport to the Northland rail-line
- Full rebuild and improvements to the Christchurch-Picton rail corridor
- Read more here.
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