Tagit wrote: The government (current and previous) want immigration to prop up it's financial growth. Immigration in NZ unfortunately means Auckland growing unsustainably fast because the government has done nothing to try shift the growth to areas that could use it much better. The council can't keep up with the growth and appear to have little real idea. The ratepayers get hit harder and harder for funding and in deteriorating living standards. The people of Auckland mostly hate what the growth is doing to their once very liveable city that gets worse and worse by the month now. Council needs more and more money to fight the fires and much of it is wasted because the growth is way too fast. So Aucklanders are the people suffering in every which way at the hands of a government policy designed to help increase government income, and what do we get told - it's an Auckland problem so we are going to make you pay for the fixes. If it's my problem and I have to pay for it where do I get to say turn off the bloody growth in Auckland and let's rescue what little we have left of the once much nicer Auckland.
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MightyBoosh wrote: I think that is a good summary of the situation. You can always sell up and buy somewhere really nice in another part of the country with all the millions you have made |
pjc wrote: If you get on at Bombay and travel on Motorway to North Shore or West Auckland no tolls,but if you get off between Mt Wellington and St lukes or Nelson st you then pay a toll.............. ...surely these people could use public transport?? |
brmbrm wrote:
Errr....... first, you drive more on the roads you should pay more tolls, if there are any. Not toll free becase you drive further Second, you tried the public transport? Why dont you use it? I do sometimes, sometimes not: it is basically pretty crap. How am i meant to get to the bus? Errr..... I have to drive. Useless public transport system i am afraid. Totally hopeless investment in infrastructure, especially the last decade or so of National's mismanagement. |
Muppet wrote: Auckland was always going to end up this way. I moved here twenty years ago people laughed that I did not drive, you have to get a car in Auckland I was told. So here we are cars everywhere and I am actually fine with it, get serious traffic in most cities. what I don't like is pandering to a minority like cyclists etc. They be better off saving pennies in council wherever possible and looking seriously long term at alternative bridges being built akin to ones like in Scandinavia etc. But a good start would be 4 each side lanes on the Northern and Southern motorways as the Westside has had a seriously good upgrade and continuing. The Waterview tunnel has been fantastic too. |
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