Bay of Plenty holiday roading works set to ease summer travel pressures
“Queues might be a little longer when the passing lanes are closed, but there will be minimal impact…
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https://www.newsbeep.com/322543/
New road user charge calculator: How much could you pay?
Road user charges are a fundamentally different charging model: a per-kilometre charge. This is the system the Government…
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https://www.newsbeep.com/52079/
@norightturnnz
Another option is to do what we did with the TV license fee, give up on the "user pays" austerity bullshit, and just pay all #roading costs out of an integrated transport infrastructure budget (that also pays local bodies to maintain local roads).
We could also apply the principle David Parker laid out for water; citizens get free private usage, commercial users pay as a cost of doing business. So only businesses pay RUCs, collectively paying for the infrastructure.
Prime Minister Christopher Luxon says $6 billion of Government-funded infrastructure projects to start before end of year
NZ Herald 19 Jul, 2025 10:30 PM2 mins to read Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articl…
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https://www.newsbeep.com/7582/
_The Evening Post_, 12 March 1925:
RATEPAYERS PROTEST
A SHORTER ROUTE
THE WAY TO KARORI
The chief subject under discussion at a meeting of members of the #Karori Progressive Association last evening was… the urgent need of a shorter route to Karori and the western #suburbs generally.… Councillor J. Aston said that the council was really no further forward in the matter of providing a shorter route to Karori than it was months ago…
Mr. R. B. Sim maintained that the time for politely-worded resolutions had gone past… he had not been very long in the district, but he had been disgusted with the lack of decent facilities for communication with the city.
… Councillor B. G. H. Burn answered in spirited fashion that [the Mayor] Mr. Wright was most certainly not marking time in the matter…. [and] not a foot of [tram] track could be laid anywhere without the approval of the Government.
…
It was finally decided… by unanimous vote, that a deputation… should wait first upon the Mayor and later upon the Prime Minister, or Acting-Prime Minister, to lay before them the necessity of a shorter route via Bowen street, and to press for a definite statement as to what was intended.…
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/EP19250312.2.153
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"In the end of an era for New Zealand land transport, the last stretch of metal road in the country's State Highway network has been tarsealed."
#RobinMartin, 2025
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/542867/tarsealing-of-tangarakau-gorge-marks-end-of-an-era
Reminds me of reading an article about the last 'party line' (shared copper phone line) in Aotearoa being replaced with household landlines;
25 years later they're in terminal decline;
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/media-technology/515424/time-running-out-for-nz-s-copper-phone-network
A sign of things to come?
@airshipper
> we don’t have a big enough population to afford to maintain so many kms of safe state highways
Highways that seem to need constant patching. Unlike well-built rails.
Highways made of bitumen. Which is a byproduct of oil refining. As we learned when there was that fuss about the bitumen from Marsden Point being better than the imported stuff.
So like fossil fuels, roads aren't actually sustainable. Something we need to transition away from.
_The Evening Post_, 22 February 1924:
WINTER TRAFFIC OUTLET
GISBORNE–NAPIER HIGHWAY
(BY TELEGRAPH.—PRESS ASSOCIATION.)
GISBORNE, This Day.
The Gisborne–Napier highway, upon which the Public Works Department has been concentrating its energies for the past three years, is now approaching completion, metal having been deposited along its full length. #Gisborne is thus assured of an outlet during the winter season, which it has not hitherto poss[ess]ed. The Department’h [sic] intention is to lay a bitumen surface on the road. The Chamber of Commerce is sending a message to the Hon. J. G. Coates, congratulating him on the completion of the road, and the removal of the isolation of the district.
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/EP19240222.2.42
#OnThisDay #OTD #PapersPast #Roading #Highways #Construction #NewZealand
_The Evening Post_, 28 November 1924:
WIDER STREETS
A HUNDRED FEET BETWEEN
BUILDINGS.
The Works Committee of the City Council last evening recommended that steps should be taken to have subsection 189 of the Municipal Corporations Act, 1920, authorising the making of #bylaws fixing the building line of narrow streets amended to give the council power to provide:—
That no building be erected within 50 feet [ca. 15m], or such less distance as the council shall prescribe, from the middle line of any street.
That no building shall be erected on one side of the street within 100 feet or such less distance as the council shall prescribe, from the other side of the street.
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/EP19241128.2.120
#OnThisDay #OTD #PapersPast #CityPlanning #Roading #Legislation #Wellington #NewZealand
_The Evening Post_, 22 November 1924:
TAIHAPE TO NAPIER
Good progress is being made by the contractors for the erection of the bridge over the #Rangitikei River at #Springvale, on the #Taihape to #Napier road. It is expected that the bridge will be completed in February, and will enable motorists to make the through trip from Napier to Taihape with little difficulty. A start is shortly to be made with the bridge across the Rangitikei River at the #Mangawhero crossing, and when this is completed motorists will be fortunate in having the choice of two routes between Taihape and Napier, which will then be brought within a four hours’ journey to the Main Trunk railway. Preparations are already being made to establish a through motor service on the first route to be opened up.
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/EP19241122.2.163
#OnThisDay #OTD #PapersPast #Bridges #Roading #Construction #NewZealand
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