Auckland light rail facing huge hurdles to get back on track
16 May, 2021 05:00 PM
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Artist impression of light rail on Ian McKinnon Drive heading towards Dominion Rd. Photo / Supplied The Labour Government s failure to deliver on light rail in Auckland last term has brought a new minister and a new plan to get the multi-billion dollar project back on track. Super City reporter Bernard Orsman explains Light Rail Mark II.
What is light rail?
Light right is the modern-day equivalent of trams, which once carried more passengers than today s combined public transport network of buses, trains and ferries. At the time, Auckland s population was 500,000 people. Today it is 1.7 million.
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Press Release – New Zealand National Party Labour is far too focused on pushing people out of cars and isnt taking into account that private vehicles will always be used by Kiwis, Nationals Transport spokesperson Michael Woodhouse says. Proposals floated to make the transport sector …
Labour is far too focused on pushing people out of cars and isn’t taking into account that private vehicles will always be used by Kiwis, National’s Transport spokesperson Michael Woodhouse says.
Proposals floated to make the transport sector net carbon zero by 2050 include reducing the number of private vehicles on the road by 57 per cent.
Friday, 14 May 2021, 3:52 pm
Labour is far too focused on pushing people out of cars
and isn’t taking into account that private vehicles will
always be used by Kiwis, National’s Transport spokesperson
Michael Woodhouse says.
Proposals floated to make the
transport sector net carbon zero by 2050 include reducing
the number of private vehicles on the road by 57 per
cent.
“National agrees with Labour on the goal of
zero emissions in our transport sector in the future, but we
don’t support Kiwis being railroaded into a lifestyle that
isn’t practical,” Mr Woodhouse says.
“We should
be encouraging public transport use in our cities,
Enbridge Line 5 oil pipeline opponents protest ‘ticking time bomb’ in Michigan Great Lakes
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The crude oil still pumps and protests are growing.
For two days since after midnight on May 12, Calgary, Canada-based Enbridge has continued to defy Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s orders to stop pumping oil through its 68-year-old Line 5 that dips through the the Great Lakes exposed on the bottomlands of the Straits of Mackinac.
Supporters, including Republican politicians, the Canadian government and other U.S. states claim the economic value supported by the transport of 540,000 barrels or 23 million gallons of oil per day is too great to lose.