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Those who voted for Labour (and the Green party) have no one to blame but themselves. Poor roading infrastructure is becoming a symptom of a larger problem.
The public are getting extremely impatient in and around Tauranga. New overpasses are taking years to complete. Cars are backed up on busy roads and, because of road work disruptions, journeys take much longer. The roads cannot cope with a growing population and are dreadful at peak hours, with the limitations of two-lane highways, potholes, breakdown of substandard bitumen and busy T-intersections.
We experience the same issues in other areas of New Zealand.
This Labour Government won the 2020 election with a landslide. ‘Jacinda is nice’, was the sentiment. Many Kiwi voters left the National Party and instead gave their vote to Labour.
You may recall that January last year, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announced a big breaking news item of a “Big New Zealand Upgrade“.
We’ve announced a $12 billion Kiwi infrastructure programme: The Big New Zealand Upgrade. This is the largest investment in New Zealand’s infrastructure by a government in a generation. It will help to future-proof our country for generations to come by delivering new and upgraded roads, rail, schools, and hospitals across the country. Safer roads, faster journeys.
We’ll be building new rail and roads and upgrading old ones to speed up travel times, ease congestion and make our roads safer. We’re also investing in our rail transport network so it can carry more freight and take trucks off the road, meaning safer travel for everyone.
As we are all aware, the Labour Government had COVID-19 to deal with last year. However, New Zealanders know, or ought to know by now, that better roads are not a priority for Labour.
- The $12 billion pronouncement will not go far as it is to be spread between roads, rail, schools, and hospitals
- Labour fails in policy delivery
- The Government have run out money anyway
- Labour prefers kiwis to use bicycles, rail, and buses.
Kiwi drivers will see little of this financial pledge in upgraded roads. While they are ecstatic that Ardern has been re-elected, they also get her ideological left-wing policies.
Truck drivers last year wanted Kiwis to send in photos of bad roads as part of a safety campaign.
Kiwi truckies are asking the public to send them photos of potholed and cracked highways so they can show the Government how poor local roads are. The National Road Carriers Association put the call out on its Facebook page last Friday with people already posting photos of a number of dodgy road surfaces across the country. The association launched the campaign after an industry survey showed truckies were worried about safety due to poor roads and rash driving by other motorists.
The industry is telling us the road conditions are getting worse and they are not being maintained as well as they used to be, association chief executive David Aitken said.
NZ Herald 26 June 2019
Further roading infrastructure deterioration could be one of the game changers for voters. Breakdown of roads and transport difficulties are highly visible and experienced by most kiwis. Those who voted Labour can only blame themselves.
Antony Mueller, German Professor of Economics at the Federal University in Brazil, does not claim to be a prophet but sees the following implications of COVID-19.
Most people have not noticed yet because at the moment governments can afford to give them subsidies and welfare payments. But the question is: ‘For how long?’ We know this money is coming to an end and that it will soon be over. Next you will see massive unemployment all over Europe as one country pulls down another country.”
The coming economic crisis will be worse than any the world has seen before because all the countries in the Western world will become impoverished simultaneously and be unable to help one another.
“We are seeing the destruction of the economy in all Western countries — from the U.S. and Canada to New Zealand and Western Europe. 2020 has been a big catastrophe in the making. It’s just not here yet but it will be worse — much, much worse — than Weimar.”
It was the decline of Germany’s Weimar Republic — a period of high unemployment, deprivation, and hyperinflation — which led to the rise of Hitler. But however bad it might have been, the coming depression is going to be much worse because society is more atomised and less family-oriented and religious.
This has nothing to do with the virus says Professor Mueller, and everything to do with government policy: The real pandemic will be the effect of the lockdown policy.
James Delingpole, Breitbart 26 December 2020
Frustrated Labour drivers may soon want to #WalkAway from the Labour Party every time they are in a traffic jam, observe frustrated overtaking on a narrow highway or are running late for an appointment.
Kiwis can mutter their road rage to themselves for voting for Labour.
“Safer roads, faster journeys?” Yeah Right.
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