So you want to solve Aucklands traffic woes do you?
It seems everyone else does too.
Those whom live in Wellington, or the coromandel for that matter want to solve our peak traffic problems. As a business owner with vehicles on the raod all the time, I assure you I would like the problem solved for the whole day thanks, as I am sure our customer would too as they are paying for it.
Now why would a party that claims to be green want to use trains when it is well known that it costs a lot more (in terms of resources at least) to move a passenger on a train than in a car (essentially because of weight per passenger). I guess there is some logic in there but it escapes me at the moment. Plus I can just wait to see what happens when I explain to a customer why they have a 3 hour travel charge.
So surely busses are the answer then.
For every bum in a seat there is one less car on the road. This must ease congestion right.
Well.
As I travel along Gt North road in the mornings ther are 6 busses taking turns at holding up the left lane. Not only this the back bus does not want to be held up by the one in front so plays leap frog, and as always wait patiently for a break in the traffic in the right lane before pulling out.
Yeah Right.
So now the left lane can't move and it is like someone just threw a boulder in a stream in the right.
We get to the pt Chev intersection where we have a bus lane and viola the traffic flow smoothe as silk in both lanes as the busses are not wrecking havoc.
Furhter along on manakau rd and no bus lane. The entire left lane does not get used at all by cars (on the stretch we drive on) because they all know that the busses are going to screw them up.
So where am I going with this.
Well Trains are not the answer, busses cause way more problems than they solve. So lets get busses in bus lanes so they are out of our way. Shit I pay enough for the bloody things (over $30,000,000.00) I may as well pay a bit more to get them out the way and tell the idiots in power to look after motorbikes.
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