Modern rail system needed instead of Transmission Gully

Modern rail system needed in preference to
facilitating further motorway madness!
Option 3 is the way to go

Recently I said at a Council meeting that it was predictable to see that the Wellington City Council has learnt nothing from the recent petrol price rises. We are in a culture of denial, starting with our political leaders. At a time when the world is being warned that the age of cheap energy is over we should be looking for the most efficient way to move people. While climate change was now on the radar of most people, oil companies continued to send mixed messages. The public can't really be blamed for clinging to the transport of last century but there was no excuse for the educators and leaders who had been given the facts.

No responsible government should, or in reality could, allow the wasteful use of a scarce resource (oil ). With many people continuing to commute one person per car, some hard medicine is required. That could take the form of positive discouragement, as is the case in most enlightened countries. Neither Transmission Gully nor the Costal Option should be a consideration in this new century. Fuel price is now dictating Option 3 as the way to the security of our future. The most attractive cities in the world are now ones with fewer cars and carless centres, they are good cities to live and work in.

Bryan Pepperell
Wellington City Council