ARE YOU HAPPY WITH PUBLIC TRANSPORT?
ATTENTION!
WE ALL HAVE A PROBLEM:
FACT:
TOO MANY CARS – MORE EVERY DAY,
CLOGGING WELLINGTON ROADS.
FACT:IT COSTS AN ALARMING AMOUNT TO PARK IN WELLINGTON CBD.
FACT: WELLINGTON’S ROADS CANNOT SUSTAIN GREATER NUMBERS OF CARS.
‘BY-PASS’-ING THE PROBLEM
DOES NOT WORK!
THE ANSWER?
BETTER, MORE AFFORDABLE PUBLIC TRANSPORT
BETTER PLANNING FOR OUR FUTURE!
VOTE
BRYAN PEPPERELL FOR MAYOR
TOGETHER, WE CAN DO IT!
TOO MANY CARS – MORE EVERY DAY,
CLOGGING WELLINGTON ROADS.
FACT:IT COSTS AN ALARMING AMOUNT TO PARK IN WELLINGTON CBD.
FACT: WELLINGTON’S ROADS CANNOT SUSTAIN GREATER NUMBERS OF CARS.
‘BY-PASS’-ING THE PROBLEM
DOES NOT WORK!
THE ANSWER?
BETTER, MORE AFFORDABLE PUBLIC TRANSPORT
BETTER PLANNING FOR OUR FUTURE!
VOTE
BRYAN PEPPERELL FOR MAYOR
TOGETHER, WE CAN DO IT!
posted by pepptalk at 12:33 AM
3 Comments:
Well said Pepp!
It's about time someone addressed this huge problem.
I note the present Mayor and her Councillors (hopefully not much longer) have only just gleaned the idea - in an election year - and propose a preposterous scheme of 'moveable Bus lanes'.
Rather than addressing the problem & applying a long term solution, she would rather apply an easy-fix Band Aid and tell the Community "There, there, it's all right to keep adding more & more cars to Wellington roads".
Well, it's NOT!
London has a law in place which serves as a dis-incentive to motorists in the CBD.
We are rapidly coming to the stage where Wellington cannot sustain more private commuter traffic in the CBD.
IT'S THAT SIMPLE!!
I can only hope someone in the next Council Administration displays the Testicular Ability to meet this problem head - on and apply some long term planning to a very long term problem.
From: Jack Ruben
Sent: Thursday, 26 April 2007 12:41 p.m.
To: Andy Foster ;Bryan Pepperell;Kerry Prendergast WCC; GRP: Councillors
Cc:Subject: RE: Motorcycle parking & WCC
Andy,
You and your fellow-travellers (no pun meant!) of the 'anti-car lobby' (ACL) under rate the intelligence of the general population. We are well able to decide issues on their merits, without being continually and forcibly bombarded by fatuous arguments by your lot.
I have decided to take a more patient attitude in your own case, because like other ACL members, you have never had line-management experience or in fact any worthwhile commercial experience, and are now a "professional councillor". I believe the only job you held prior to being elected to council, was as an analyst - or similar - to the National Party. If I am wrong, please correct me.
The anti-car measures you propose are just that, but you do it by devious means. Selling cbd council carparking buildings (which I seem to remember were immediately onsold for a vast profit) proposing no on-street parking on certain roads, increasing council parking fees, and making transferability of valid parking coupons for the same area an (expensive!) offence, you personally owning a larger car than is available on the market, turning up to meetings - including yesterday in Khandallah -by car, when you could have caught a bus, or cycled, or even walked (you had time it was a public holiday) adds little credibility to your pro public transport, or in fact any other credibility!
You accuse me of "undermining public transport'. Give me examples. I was a member of the 'Keep the Johnsonville Line' group ( for instance) when you were unusually quiet on the subject. Your accusation is unsubstantiated baseless crap!
You have the impertinence to question my environmental attitude. I was an active environmentalist long before you knew the word existed.
And as long as you continue vote for and try and justify the privatisation of privatise public space, by supporting the MEC - a certain failure - on pristine coast, the Hilton Hotel on the most iconic site in Wellington, permanently blocking out views of the harbour by allowing buildings which could have been anywhere else, a Wine Bar on scarce cbd park, your support for a District Plan which allows for people's environment to be destroyed by in-fill housing, etc, etc, then claiming to care for the environment is just more nauseating hypocritical crap.
What is wrong in advocating for people to have the free choice of where they live - even up the Kapiti Coast - when Wellington house prices are now beyond the pockets of so many people? And the ongoing rates and other ever increasing charges?
Do you intend erecting a Berlin-Wall type structure to prevent individuals having a free choice where they live - most especially if it is so much cheaper there? Your obvious support for Communes, Gulags and Pol Pot type institutions is just a wee bit out of date!
I presume noone told you where to live, so, other than an inflated ego, what gives you the right to tell others where they may and may not live?
I said I wouldn't debate these issues with you, and now end this correspondence. The truth of the matter is that the public have sussed you and your ACL, - as proven by the response to a council paper going out for consultation - and you thought you get away with it. Hard luck!!
Jack.
Hello Bryan, I sent a "blog" re derelict vehicles but don't know if I pushed right buttons for your receipt of same. Pl.confirm.
Re Traffic Congestion. You know I've rattled on and on about this subject before until I"m tired of reading and hearing about it. Indulge me once more. Because of the WCC's besotted focus on pandering to commercial development whether it be for private or Council financed projects, the fundamental issues of vehicular traffic flows, parking and futuristic forward planning to take our wonderful City into the next millenium are berift of any innovative thinking or resolutions. Facts are that over the last two decades, there is a 250 per cent increase in New Zealand's vehicular fleet. For the years of 2003/2004/2005 the market averaged slightly under 13,000/month of USED IMPORTS ALONE (other countries throwaways) but a steadying over the 2006/2007 period averaging around 9129 used import arrivals monthly. Thus with easy finance and access to a huge range of vehicle type, city and urban inhabitants simply use their vehicles for driving to work, delivering/collecting children for school purposes etc.etc. plus any fifteen year old can go and buy one too - invariably to hoon around town, in an uninsured powerful vehicle to terrorise all and sundry and waste vast quantities of fuel in their childish and irresponsible endeavours. (Check ongoing statistics if you don't believe me) Therefore instead of our narrow and geographically constrained roadways being used to permit both foot and vehicle movements in a reasonably safe manner, what we have now is footpaths, streets and roadways becoming vast vehicle parking lots forever squeezing even suburban streets down to barely one and a half lanes !! Check it out.
Therefore more fuel is wasted.
Have any Wn.City Councils had the vision to see what was going to happen when socialist NZ governments open the flood gates to used vehicle imports and the potential and now very real impact on the change to New Zealander's lifestyle and love affair with the automobile ? I think not.
Has Council; ever looked at allowing vehicles to park outside the "berm" (a WCC anachroisnm if there was ever one !) instead of on roadways in suburban and appropriate areas ? I think not.
Has Council, insisted that all apartments, apartment developments, commercial developments cater for accomodating vehicles for at least 50 per cent of the occupants and look at stackable garaging systems? I think not. But more importantly and key issue is the question of a thoroughly modern "light rail system" to serve the whole City and Region. To rid our fine City of the need to clog our roadways with dozens of buses per hour (but servicing non-light rail areas only) congesting the inner city thus creating (let the records remind us) pedestrian unfriendly environment a priority of the current WCC ? I think not.The issue of PUBLIC TRANSPORT INFRASTRUCTURE DEVELOPMENT will not go away, despite the arguably blinkered mindset of the WCC and it's councillors. Here endeth the ongoing chapter.. VRYN EVANS
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