Letters Rail, ferries, not roads

• Published date: 21 April 2024
• Publication title: Herald on Sunday

The inter-island connection is strategically important, we need this more than any tunnel

Our roads already cannot cope with the existing weight of trucks. When Steven Joyce was Minister of Transport he was fixated on roads of significance and neglected everything else; he wanted to increase the weight of trucks on the roads as well. This came at a cost; we ended up being the only country not investing in rail to get heavy trucks off the road and increase commuter use of rail.

Current Transport Minister Simeon Brown was quoted as saying he was concerned about the state of secondary roads. He can’t blame Labour, these were caused by Joyce putting all of the money into roads of significance.

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