Simeon Brown: Transport Minister on the Government's new National Land Transport Plan
Heather du Plessis-Allan Drive · Newstalk ZB
Audio is streamed directly from the publisher (pdst.fm) as published in their RSS feed. Play Podcasts does not host this file. Rights-holders can request removal through the copyright & takedown page.
Show Notes
The Transport Minister says today's National Land Transport Plan shouldn't surprise councils.
Simeon Brown's unveiled the new $32.9 billion scheme, which includes $5.5 billion for pothole prevention, and $7 billion for state highway improvements.
Brown says this is the end of funding for speed-bumps, a change councils were already told about in the Government Policy Statement published in July.
He says Kiwis are sick of councils slowing drivers down.
"Councils are the road-controlling authorities, they can still go and do other things on their roads - they just won't be receiving a subsidy from the Government for that."
LISTEN ABOVE
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.