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| Thread ID: 66587 | 2006-02-28 09:54:00 | Road Tolling, Auckland.. whats your opinion? | Myth (110) | PC World Chat |
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| 434565 | 2006-02-28 20:34:00 | I'm an Aucklander and as much as people may not like, it I think tolls are inevitable. I would however, like to see petrol tax reduced if tolls are introduced. In all likelihood however, we'll probably end up with both. :yuck: | Mackin_NZ (6958) | ||
| 434566 | 2006-02-28 20:36:00 | Raising the petrol price would affect everyone. And it wouldn't work. Auckland is a skinny long city. And its too big. Public transport is useless, which is why most people drive to work. More to the point - why not some bigger businesses move out and go to other cities in NZ? Thats the other reason so many people keep moving to Auckland - jobs. Messing with the roads and motorways will never help - they'll never catch up. And the trend is to jam more housing, if you can call it that, in to fit more people. So Auckland will just keep getting busier and longer. Glad I'm escaping the nightmare. |
pctek (84) | ||
| 434567 | 2006-02-28 20:42:00 | Get rid of the smoking age, and allow advertising everywhere again. Smokers are one of the largest cash crops the government has, and when they die they can milk there lungs for tar. Then everyone will be able to enjoy the best roads in the world. :2cents: |
Rob99 (151) | ||
| 434568 | 2006-02-28 20:55:00 | The problem with petrol tax is that people will use less and therefore less revenue. The best tax is based on the kms you travel. However, tampering with odometers should warrant a large fine to avoid tax dodgers. You simply pay the tax at registration. That would not be hard to implement. And the best thing is those that use the roads pay for the roads in proportion to the kms travelled. The money is then dispensed to the regional authorities, in proportion to the number of cars in there area. National Highways are paid for by a proportion of these as well. e.g. 40% for National Highways and 60% for Regional works. | KiwiTT_NZ (233) | ||
| 434569 | 2006-03-01 05:57:00 | Yes happy with Tolling. I also think that private companies should be able to build roads and totally control those roads. In other words they set the speed limits (or no speed limits :-) my 2 cents |
wmoore (6009) | ||
| 434570 | 2006-03-01 06:26:00 | Yes happy with Tolling. I also think that private companies should be able to build roads and totally control those roads. In other words they set the speed limits (or no speed limits :-) my 2 cents they probably can, if they manage to buy the land. how much say does the government have about the private roads in the gated communities that the too rich people live in in Queenstown? |
Greven (91) | ||
| 434571 | 2006-03-01 07:37:00 | Take the Auckland Province as a whole. Return all taxes of any discription back to Auckland, for Aucklanders, by Aucklanders. It would be interesting to see how well the rest of NZ would manage financially. Would the rest of NZ be better off, or worse?? PJ | Poppa John (284) | ||
| 434572 | 2006-03-01 07:54:00 | With our backbone of farms, and the other centres that would rise to the occasion, I think we would do just fine without Auckland.... Though, Where is Telecom head office?, If its in Welliington then I would put foward a motion to relocate it and The beehive to jafa land before we detonate the explosives. |
Metla (12) | ||
| 434573 | 2006-03-01 08:08:00 | What with tearing the lungs out of smokers and blowing up good keen k1W1's,this getting violent. | Cicero (40) | ||
| 434574 | 2006-03-01 08:17:00 | for those who dont live in auckland, you really have no idea about traffic. so dont comment. | Tux (606) | ||
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