Hawkin’s Council hangover continues with another $146,000,000+ extra debt this year, much of it funding ‘Shaping Dunedin Future Transport’, which I see as shagging Dunedin Future Transport, driving cars out of our city, slowing traffic and making parking even more difficult.

I have often been alone in voting against $100,000,000 of recent planet-saving transport changes including: $28 million used to slow George st traffic to a one-way crawl, the $16 million being spent to send One-Way system traffic [also to be slowed] to the far side of our Railway Station, the $9 million proposed to fund ‘way-finding apps and signage’ to direct people to increasingly scarce parking rather than provide parking, the budgeted $10 million ‘park and ride’ carparks at Mosgiel and Burnside where motorists will be ‘encouraged’ to park and then bus into the City Centre, another $30 million on more cycleways that remain grossly underused, and $20 million for ‘surface treatments’ down Princes street where carparks will be lost to a ‘priority bus lane’… 

The ODT reported some of the debate, but missed the real $100,000,000 borrowed and wasted transport spend issue:

May 20 2023, Otago Daily Times

My debate speech video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxjnQ12Kw9g&t=4550s