On Monday, National launched its transport policy for the upcoming election, showing that at least National have learnt how to recycle, with the policy largely recycled from their 2020 campaign, which itself was mostly recycled from 2017. While it certainly is much nicer and safer driving on a four-lane divided highway over a two lane road, that’s not the basis for a good transport policy. This is not surprising, given the large cost escalation of transport projects in recent years. Public TransportNational have included just four public transport projects in their policy – and as noted, two are already underway and the other two have large caveats. This is a transport policy that aims to set NZ back to the 1960s rather than set the country up for the future.
