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Get Connected - at Panmure |
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Written by Auckland Greens
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Friday, 05 October 2007 |
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In this second installment from the Get Connected campaign, Green Party candidate Maire Leadbeater highlights the need for the bus and train networks to connect at Panmure. Here we go spending billions on public transport while duplicating services and not allowing them to link up. Go figure!
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Written by Auckland Greens
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Friday, 21 September 2007 |
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The Get Connected Campaign was launched with a walk from Otahuhu's rail station to the bus station a fair way away. Watch the video and make sure you vote for the local candidates that support getting connected!
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Last Updated ( Wednesday, 26 September 2007 )
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Public transport benefits all road users |
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Written by Jeanette Fitzsimons
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Monday, 21 May 2007 |
 It is time road users realised that they are the main beneficiaries of investment in public transport, especially rail, the Green Party says.
The Road Transport Forum and Federated Farmers cannot operate in a bubble, Co-Leader Jeanette Fitzsimons said today in response to the plaintive complaints from both groups in the wake of last week’s Budget.
"It is disingenuous of them to base an argument against a regional petrol tax to support public transport on whether farmers and truckers use buses. The contribution to future transport costs cannot be based on such superficialities," Ms Fitzsimons says.
"For years, the rest of the country supported farmers through Supplementary Minimum Prices and other farm supports. Even now, farmers resist being charged the true costs of telecommunications, power and social services to rural areas. There is also much resistance within Federated Farmers to farmers fronting up to the true environmental costs of intensive dairying - and the organisation seems more than happy for taxpayers to pay the cost of New Zealand's Kyoto obligations incurred in large part by methane emissions. |
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Petrol tax should fund rail electrification, not roads |
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Written by Keith Locke
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Friday, 18 May 2007 |
 The Greens will be pushing during the fine tuning by Parliament of the new petrol tax for the revenues to be put towards rail electrification and related public transport projects – and it will be urging that none of it should be going into new roads, the Green Party Auckland Transport Spokesperson Keith Locke says.
“It’s great that the Auckland Regional Council, and the mayors of Auckland, Waitakere, Manukau and North Shore are all targeting electrification,” Mr Locke says.
“It would be ‘tolling by the backdoor’ to use any of the petrol tax for building new motorways such as the Western Ring Route. Aucklanders overwhelmingly rejected tolling for that purpose – and on the evidence of opinion polls, they would much prefer that any levies required be put towards a decent public transport system. |
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Motorists benefit when petrol tax is spent on public transport |
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Written by Jeanette Fitzsimons
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Thursday, 26 April 2007 |
Any attempt to use a regional petrol tax to fund yet more state highways would further unbalance Auckland's transport infrastructure, Green Party Co-Leader Jeannette Fitzsimons says.
"Under this Government we have seen a road building binge like never before. Even Michael Cullen claims it is the largest road spend NZ has ever seen,” Ms Fitzsimons says.
"To add to this by making Aucklanders pay a regional petrol tax for yet more roading, flies in the face of what Aucklanders say they want. |
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