Dr Julie BlommaertThe National party is just a landlord and a couple of roads in a trench coat
Honestly though can you think of a more boring, uninspired, and useless policy than MORE ROADS
“Build it and they will come” wasn’t just a movie quote, it’s infrastructure advice
Build more roads? Get more car traffic
Build more light rail? Get more light rail passengers (fewer personal vehicles)
Build more safe cycling infrastructure? Get more cyclists (fewer personal vehicles)
Make other public transport more convenient, cheaper and accessible? Get more people using it!
It’s not fucking brain surgery
Pablo Martini@drjulie_b in the UK we had a brilliant rail system! It carried the mass of people, carried large & medium sized packages to local stations here it was delivered that day!
We use them as walks now!
The right wing government bought a Canadian doctor to rationalise it he butchered it!
It saved tax money the tax money NOT paid by the rich!
We use them as walks now!
The right wing government bought a Canadian doctor to rationalise it he butchered it!
It saved tax money the tax money NOT paid by the rich!
@PabloMartini I hate the rich and the right wingers 😡 they’re why we can’t have nice things
Cassandra is only carbon now@drjulie_b Roads efficiently deliver cars to chokepoints, creating more traffic. I have no idea why that seems to be so counter intuitive to people, but I hate it.
@xgranade I don’t understand why it’s difficult to grasp that more roads = more traffic though. Is it really that counterintuitive to most?
Odradek@drjulie_b but if we subsidise big cars we make our voter AND our sponsors happy while these antidemocratic laws of nature don't even compromise!
Dr. Eric J. Fielding, PhD@drjulie_b Even Los Angeles, California had an extended light rail or trolley system back in the 1930’s. As I understand it, the LA rail company was bought by General Motors after WWII and dismantled so they could sell more cars. Some of the former rail lines have been converted back to light rail in the 21st century, but it is too late to fully reverse the extreme amount of urban and suburban development built around cars in the last 80 years.
Ali@drjulie_b Taranaki, absolutely prime for a railcar between Ngāmotu and Hāwera, but what's on offer: SH45 "improvements" - the long way round the mountain (when SH3 is absolutely f**ked from logging trucks taking export logs to the port)..... I just want to be able to get on a train to go to a big city, and save my driving footprint for going kayaking and tramping.
@River yeah, I think there’s good reason to suggest light rail between Nelson, Wakefield and Motueka, but no, instead Nats wanna give us another bypass
@drjulie_b 100% Its not like anyone is asking for a tunnel to Marahau or anything, the solution to Nelsons congestion isn't another road
@drjulie_b Wearing suspiciously clean red bands...
@River and trying to hide that bible behind their backs
@drjulie_b That is the bit that worries me the most.
@River same. Though the climate and economy/housing things are also pretty up there for me in terms of human rights and the whole future of our species thing
@drjulie_b I have suspected for quite some time that climate extinction is the tool the christofash have chosen to bring about their rapture, like poverty is a moral failing of the unrighteous. Greed drags a lot of folks along for the ride, but unholy American "Christianity" is so interwoven with conservative politics now as to be indivisible.
I'm all about a green new deal, & in this country that has to be centred round decolonisation. Equitable, sustainable & just outcomes for everyone.
I'm all about a green new deal, & in this country that has to be centred round decolonisation. Equitable, sustainable & just outcomes for everyone.
@River I’d ask if you’ve ever considered a career in politics but I expect your answer is similar to mine (yes but seems too dangerous?)
@River anyway, I’d vote for you
@drjulie_b 😊😊 Thank you!
@drjulie_b My endocrinologist said the same thing... I don't think that would make me a better person, and yeah, definitely too dangerous at the moment so Ill just stick to writing letters and submitting on bills.
Mark@drjulie_b
With Alfred E Neumann's head.
With Alfred E Neumann's head.