to the Ministry of Transport

Mon, 06/04/2009 - 11:16am

on the discussion paper Sustainable Transport: Update of the New Zealand Transport Strategy. In summary we supported the updated Transport Strategy, but stated that we believed the Government agreed high level outcome target for 2040 (of halving per capita domestic greenhouse transport emissions) could be achieved sooner if changes were made to the way roads and rail infrastructure were constructed and maintained. We suggested further intermediate or detailed targets to be added to those already contained in the NZTS, such as:

• Travel time predictability
• Travel times for critical intra and inter regional connections to be improved
• All individuals have access to the facilities and activities they need
• Public health effects to be at acceptable international standards.
• Local environmental impacts be at acceptable international standards
• Operate at World best practice safety standards

We expanded on how we believed each of these targets could best be achieved. To read the full submission click here.