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
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?