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Transport Minister Michael Wood admits Aucklanders were left out of previous consultations over light rail through the city, and announced new engagement processes.
OPINION:News last week that the Government has been looking at phasing out fuel taxes in favour of other ways of charging for road use has been welcomed, but the Government is staring down the barrel of a transport infrastructure crisis if it doesn’t start planning for new ways of funding transport now. Briefings to Transport Minister Michael Wood, released to
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, reveal that the Government’s burgeoning infrastructure portfolio and public transport commitments will mean the more than $4 billion collected from fuel taxes and other road charges won’t stretch beyond maintenance by 2030, leaving not a solitary cent for new spending on public transport or roads.
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Opinion: Three cheers for Andrew Little s health reforms
27 Apr, 2021 05:00 PM
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Health Minister Andrew Little announcing the Government s health reforms at Parliament. Photo / NZME
Northern Advocate
By: Wayne Brown
Three cheers for Andrew Little, a government minister who has actually decided to govern as if they do have a big majority. Let s hope he sparks a flurry of activity from his fellow cabinet ministers in other areas needing bold moves, and there are plenty of candidates, Transport, Housing, Electricity, MBIE and the SOEs to start with.
I ve had plenty of experience with health bureaucracies having been parachuted in to fix Northland Health, get Auckland City Hospital up and running and as a commissioner to fix Tairāwhiti DHB in Gisborne, so I ve experienced appointed boards, elected boards and no boards and I can tell you that no boards works best.
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Wellington bus drivers picket the Kilbirnie depot during their 24 hour strike on Friday.
Angry and determined bus drivers took to the picket lines Friday morning as they began their public fight for better work conditions. What was meant to be a 24-hour strike could now stretch for weeks after bus company NZ Bus served a lockout notice to union drivers. A group of about 50 drivers had gathered outside the Kilbirnie bus depot, waving signs bearing messages like “smash the lockout” and “on strike today, locked out tomorrow”. A chorus of cheers erupted every few seconds as car horns sounded from passing drivers.