Simeon Brown: Transport emissions, roads, and the public service | Q+A 2023
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- National’s transport and public service spokesperson Simeon Brown talks to Jack Tame about his party’s plans for roads and the transport network, whether National’s plan takes climate change into account, and how the party would change the public service
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I have just come back from driving around Europe. As an example in Italy, if I put in a destination in my GPS it would give me two options, one via toll road or by a none toll route. The toll would be say €10 but that route would be 3.5 hours, the alternative none toll route route would take 7.5 hours, so its a no brainer to take the toll road because 4 hours more driving would cost heaps more in fuel spend.
So he wants congestion charging but no investment in the modes of transport that it will incentivise. He doesn't want spending on walking and cycling. Hes protested against bus and transit lanes that make buses actually usable and incentivises carpooling... Like really? Nationals version is just going to end up being a tax on using the only decently catered to method of getting around and do little to really aid with congestion.
Thanks jack for holding people to answering the questions you have ask not just hold to their talking points.
National should be setting governance and policy frameworks, and monitoring outcomes, not politically saying what projects are going to go ahead - many of which have not yet had business cases undertaken yet.
C Fletcher a councilor in Auckland City said we do not unlock new land to provide for houses on boundaries. Just use current land better. Which help keeping people close work and shops.
Agree, smaller communities again. They used to center around industry but now they just want computer game developers and they call that productivity
Absurd. Road tolls are simply a more targeted form of fuel excise tax.
Yes, but of course Labour will do that.
@@shagsheep8832everything we do has a cost. Tolls are just a means of charging for using a facility. There is no control at all over who uses it or when, just like every other aspect of life that costs money.
Would removing fuel tax and replacing it with congestion charges mean smaller fuel efficient vehicles will be essentially subsidising oversized polluting male fragility machines?
My male fragility machine builds houses every square inch of it. What does your empty 5seater do? Why don't you drive a scooter?
@@cameronlabone6050 I gave up my inner city studio office about 12 years ago and have worked from home, when not having to travel, ever since. I am conscious of my carbon footprint and try to do what I can to limit its impact. But good on you for the work you do, I have some very good friends who are builders and I have always respected the profession, just not sure we had or needed giant road monsters to build this country when I was a young man and worked as a chippie hand.
yes, sensible people would once again be subsidizing the vast majority of #wankpanzers and FUVs - which are also usually on the roads with only one person in them. All road user charges should relate directly to weight (damage to roads) and fuel used (emissions).
@@cameronlabone6050 - yet you could achieve more with a Hiace, probably.
@TheTraveller20081 lol how is a hiace smaller than a ute? Also do they come in 4x4... Is it harder or easier to use the roof racks?
Excellent question Jack. “Where the hell are these back office people, we sure as hell do not see them contributing to outcomes.”
Wait what - so National's response to induced demand is just congestion charging?? So if people want to avoid congestion charging at certain times/locations what are they meant to do? Simply stay home? So much for freedom aye.
It feels like there's a huge lack of justification for their transportation plans and it's super disappointing.
People will have an alternative route free of charge. But it may take longer.
How can this National MP justify why the Auckland Harbour Brigde tolls was removed?
National gets its policies written and handed to them by industry lobbyists. More roads won’t fix urban congestion but it will boost the profits of the roading and transport industries
National is happy to expand the (eggs in one basket)monopoly of privatised transport at the expense of building out a diverse, efficient and publicly fair transport system. Private vehicle ownership alone is a massive collective cost to NZ households, in excess of $20b per annum. And please, hydrogen trucks - hydrogen is expensive; very energy intensive to produce and handle. Plus, what about the ongoing maintenance of these new big roads? National is so in the pocket of big oil and holiday home voters.
Transmission gully was a bloody nightmare we will be paying for four a very long time. The road it self was needing to be done but the it has been having to be continuously repaired since it was open.
PPP's are absurd. Either PPPs receive monopoly profits or they fail and taxpayers bail them out. Or NZTA pays the cost anyway (e.g. transmission gully). PPPs are simply a way of bringing forward infrastructure that we cant already afford or should be funded through fuel excise tax/ RUCs - these need to be raised to help assist reduce carbon emissions.
take a shot every time he says ultimately. take 2 if it's to deflect to a non answer from a direct question.
A small vehicle travelling 20Km uses less petrol than a large vehicle travelling 20Km. Kilometers don't produce CO2...burning litres of petrol does. So it's silly to charge by Km traveled vs litres of petrol. If the purpose is to meet emission targets, then what he's suggesting doesn't really make sense, does it?
Jack should wear a red hat while doing his interviews
Is that because National love MAGA?
Can this National MP justify why National never built the rail track ftom Avondale to Onehunga [ land was put aside in 1946].
Can this National MP explain why the railway from Manukau City to Howick is not in their plans?
I thought National was to reduce the cost of living not increasing it. Simeon is out of touch in regards to public transport and roading. A 220 seat 4 carriage inter-regional passenger rail train travelling on its own right-way is equivalent to four 50 seat single deck buses or three 65 seat double deck buses link together. Passenger rail is more user friendly for people with disabilities, etc. The current national rail network connecting 13 of the 16 regions with a potential passenger catchment of two thirds of urban/semi rural populations. Roads are financial black holes when the indirect costs of environmental pollution, emissions, heath and social costs are factored in.
You're absolutely right. It would have been at least somewhat believable that National values those being hurt by the cost of living if they had paid any thought to improving and implementing passenger rail.
Absurd. "Getting people off the road" - our carbon targets are absolute not per capita, so there is a need to get people out of cars. We aslo need a population strategy that seeks to maximise wellbeing per capita which balances economic social and environmentla outcomes. The return to high immigration is just making absolute carbon targets harder to achieve.
I think the road at Puhoi and transmission gully were finished. They have increased rd maintenance funding. Recall 2009 to 2017 National froze maintenance rd funding and someone suggested this was used to pay for tax cuts between 2009 to 2016.
How much work and cost would actually be involved in introducing twice a day return rail passenger teains between Wellington and Napier and Chrisrchurch and Dunedin initially 8.00 to 14.000 and 15.00 to 21.00 but expecting to reducs to 5hr trip time. There would be little disruption to freight services as their is only one freight train a day between Napier and Palmerston Northandpassing loops fora passenger train wouldbe only 600 metres longat say Ormondville and Danniverke. Obviously it is intended to open Dunedin Christchurch and Napier as 24/7 tourist towns for Europeans, as Napier was redesigned in 1931 folliwing the eartquake as a small version of Los Angeles
A Congestion charge won’t work if you don’t give people other options.
He said users should fund what they use. If this was their view . Why did they stop Auckland Harbour Bridge toll? And we don't hear National say it will reintroduce the toll either!
Thanks
the build-cost of the bridge is long paid-for, and that's what the tolls were for. Every road and thousands of bridges cost $$ to build, and have a continuous maintenance cost, so if you want one to be tolled, you must agree that every road and bridge should be tolled.
He suggests private business wants to build roads. If it was true they would have built a second harbour bridge. It has not happened. Why?
Complexity? Some situations are easier than others. I wonder how they will force people off their lands in the name of a private company to build a road...
The last Nationsl government under Finance Minister Bill English financed tax cuts by cutting rural road and rail maintenance to the limit from 2014, Bill English argued the sealed secondary roads around his Southland estates were uneccesarily well maintained. But the lack of proper regular maintenance on the roads and provincial railways combined with layoffs of rural council staff is why with wear and tear and predictable flash floods the Northland rail system and rural roads collapsed. Whether the very roundabout Northland rail system or the never justifiable and regularly washed out Gisborne line should be reopened can ve debated My own view is the Gisborne abd Rotorua libes should he lifted, the Northland line, reopened only to Wellsford and priority should be given to reopening the Stratford Te Kuti line as a backup and eventual replacement route for the current NIMT
People forget this stuff. The current government highlight this when potholes was topic.
Can this MP say were road funding was cut last term in goverment prior to 2017? Did this fund income tax cuts 2009 to 2017?
About public service! He still talking generally. Act is identifying targets for Guy Fawkes.
Road users require safe cycling and walking infrastructure to be put in place as vehicle kill them. Road users rightly should be paying for cycling and walking infrastructure.
During Erica S. National MP indicates in an interview on a different channel that National will cancel some Auckland public transportation plans.
Paying minimum wage to bus drivers.
No pension scheme.
Km traveled would mean big cars get taxed less that small cars...
Why was the carbon modelling not done by government? Jack you do struggle with understanding how government works. You and I know that you do understand that. So the question is why are you taking this approach?
You will do better if you stop trying to walk your quests into a trap.
luckly he has guest and not quest
20 gotchya questions pre investigated to give the guest a hard time. That's ok, but you need to also give them a minute to talk about what they feel is important
The clean car discount is very successful and worlds best practise. Absurd to remove it. Also MoT is already looking at Euro 6/VI etc for new/imported vehicles. National is adding nothing new.
He could not say how much they think the congestion charge could be. It seems it must going to be high, given that he will not indicate an amount.
Hi there. There may be a typo in your comment. Did you mean "...given that he will *_not_* indicate an amount."?
This MP has complimented Labour and its coalistion partners by highlighting how the regional fuel tax has been accumulated. Funds put aside money. If National had not removed the Auckland Harbour Bridge toll think how much would be in the bank.
Wow national did that eh. Lost the keys to the safe by doing that...how did they offset that loss of revenue? They would of added it elsewhere right?
When have National ever wanted to pay for anything! Always cutting everything then Labour get in and spend like crazy! 🤣 We can never win!
@@shagsheep8832 Tax cuts for the rich is not the answer, tax cuts for under 50 grand I would support!
Unfortunately, the Emissions Reduction Plan is only a policy document, a guideline.
Big words, big turds ... No National.. sorry not sorry
Having driven down from the centre of the north island the pot holes are at about 150 metres apart , the fuel tax and ru where has the money gone, jack needs to stop over talking
Simeon and why does jack keep bringing up labour transport policy, as we know labour has spent so much money on crap
It is trucks especially the heavy MAX50 double trailer B Train trucks are causing the pot holes. It was National that approved the used the MAX B Train trucks without upgrading the State Highway network to cater for them.
@@chrismckellar9350 The Key led National govt also froze any new investment into road maintenance, tax cuts don't pay for themselves. The current govt has been struggling to restore infrastructure particularly with the effects of climate change.
I have a friend who has trucks in his business fuel used is $500,000
Ru $700,000 where has the money gone
He’s paying to use the roads the labour government is pissing up to wall
6 years of not doing anything has come home @@chrismckellar9350
@@diyguru9677 - It seems that National has forgotten again that tax cuts don't pay for every thing. The issue with the national road networks, nobody wants to pay for ongoing road infrastructure maintenance and upgrades yet they will moan about the state of the roads. By the way, a 220 seat 4 carriage passenger train is equivalent to 4 50 seat single deck buses or three 65 seat double deck buses and a 30 wagon freight train is equivalent to 30 MAX50 double trailer B Train trucks (depending on truck configuration) which can travel on the the national 'steel' highway being more sustainable, environmentally friendly than road will ever be.
@@chrismckellar9350 The failure of Nact to even acknowledge the incredible urgency in addressing emissions will destroy this country in a very short time. The devastating cost to infrastructure and farmers by recent climate events are only going to increase over the next decade. The selfish ignorance by these pricks will cost everyone in the long run. Vote Green if you still have a hope of saving everything you love. Vote NACT for death and destruction.
They never ask for emissions coming from animal agriculture, plus deforestation, etc. such pathetic lobbiest liars
Listening to the Q&A , Simeon answered well though he was badgered during the Q&A.
STOP CO-GOVERNANCE
New Zealand is definitely lacking in progress the last years