Wellington has been blocked off due to flooding at Paekakariki, again.
So, when are we getting a decent highway again?
Related Link: Wild weather closes SH1 north of Wellington ~ Dominion Post
So, when are we getting a decent highway again?
Related Link: Wild weather closes SH1 north of Wellington ~ Dominion Post
Curse this climate change.
ReplyDeleteReminds me of the time back after the end of the first ice age. The weather was crap for years.
Lucyna, how about when the users of the highway are prepared to pay the $15-$20 per trip toll needed to come close to paying for it. Or if politicians stopped interfering and let the current highway be upgraded for two-thirds the cost (which would largely resolve this issue as rarely is a dual carriageway completely closed).
ReplyDeleteWe could have had one in 1942 when the Marines offered to build one through some place called trransmission gulley but our braincell government stuck its nose in the air and told them bugger off.
ReplyDeleteLabour, nothings changed in 66 years.
LibertyScott, how many years do you use to get the $20 per trip figure? Surely the huge amount of taxes we have paid via petrol levies, excise duties, regional taxes, road user charges, rates, income tax and others over the years should have made fair inroads for this highway?
ReplyDeleteMost countries agree that one should connect up the major cities with highways, as important to infrastructure. In New Zealand, we've used the terms "highway" but it generally means "goat track".
"Surely the huge amount of taxes we have paid via petrol levies, excise duties, regional taxes, road user charges, rates, income tax and others over the years should have made fair inroads for this highway?"
ReplyDeleteSilly man--you're obviously no economist are you?
That money is for wimmin's health programs, cultural awareness courses, seminars and conferences for bureaucrats, overseas fact-finding missions for politicians, climate-change conferences in Bali, Helen's arts bribery for lefty drones etc etc.
A decent highway would be just pissing the money away on the peasants.
Never mind the infrastructure-thingy--just feel the clean, green image, ok?