NZ In Tranzit

A doctor doesn't begin to help cure a patient until he or she identifies the specific illness.   There is little hope we can deal with the huge threat to life and health, prosperity and human rights, posed by our rapidly intensifying climatic disturbances - worldwide - if we keep talking politely of "climate change".  It is quite clear now that the correct over-all term is "climate disaster".  The foremost factor in the disaster is climatic events are intensifying, occurring in multiple ways (many of these unforeseen)  and moving too fast for economies and people to easily adjust to. This will, at minimum, significantly divert spending and/or impoverish areas and individuals, depress economies - and at maximum will lead to mass starvation, societal breakdowns and conflicts, and disease spread on levels beyond anything in previous human history.   On a local scale ; how many major weather bombs need to hit South Westland before land...

In an appalling dump on South Island voters, Labour is to spend $159 million on Canterbury transport projects of a total spend of $6.8 billion. The rest of the South Island gets even less As the South Island represents about 23% of New Zealand's population and presumably the equivalent amount in fuel and general taxes, this is a huge milking of the South Island. Labour appears to be even more aggressive than National in this respect  Nor does this massive spend-up do anything to build a public transport alternative to cars in the South.  Christchurch in the post-earthquake rebuild has opted to create a few on-street bus lanes and no form of  dedicated rapid transit   corridors  capable of attracting and carrying large numbers of passengers, ignoring the success of these corridors in other similar cities and countries. (see  footnote) The latest farce appears to be the planned dumping thousands of extra cars and buses onto Bea...