#roading — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #roading, aggregated by home.social.
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@norightturnnz
Another option is to do what we did with the TV license fee, give up on the "user pays" austerity bullshit, and just pay all #roading costs out of an integrated transport infrastructure budget (that also pays local bodies to maintain local roads).We could also apply the principle David Parker laid out for water; citizens get free private usage, commercial users pay as a cost of doing business. So only businesses pay RUCs, collectively paying for the infrastructure.
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"In the end of an era for New Zealand land transport, the last stretch of metal road in the country's State Highway network has been tarsealed."
#RobinMartin, 2025
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/542867/tarsealing-of-tangarakau-gorge-marks-end-of-an-era
Reminds me of reading an article about the last 'party line' (shared copper phone line) in Aotearoa being replaced with household landlines;
25 years later they're in terminal decline;
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/media-technology/515424/time-running-out-for-nz-s-copper-phone-network
A sign of things to come?
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"In the end of an era for New Zealand land transport, the last stretch of metal road in the country's State Highway network has been tarsealed."
#RobinMartin, 2025
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/542867/tarsealing-of-tangarakau-gorge-marks-end-of-an-era
Reminds me of reading an article about the last 'party line' (shared copper phone line) in Aotearoa being replaced with household landlines;
25 years later they're in terminal decline;
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/media-technology/515424/time-running-out-for-nz-s-copper-phone-network
A sign of things to come?
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"In the end of an era for New Zealand land transport, the last stretch of metal road in the country's State Highway network has been tarsealed."
#RobinMartin, 2025
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/542867/tarsealing-of-tangarakau-gorge-marks-end-of-an-era
Reminds me of reading an article about the last 'party line' (shared copper phone line) in Aotearoa being replaced with household landlines;
25 years later they're in terminal decline;
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/media-technology/515424/time-running-out-for-nz-s-copper-phone-network
A sign of things to come?
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"In the end of an era for New Zealand land transport, the last stretch of metal road in the country's State Highway network has been tarsealed."
#RobinMartin, 2025
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/542867/tarsealing-of-tangarakau-gorge-marks-end-of-an-era
Reminds me of reading an article about the last 'party line' (shared copper phone line) in Aotearoa being replaced with household landlines;
25 years later they're in terminal decline;
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/media-technology/515424/time-running-out-for-nz-s-copper-phone-network
A sign of things to come?
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@airshipper
> we don’t have a big enough population to afford to maintain so many kms of safe state highwaysHighways that seem to need constant patching. Unlike well-built rails.
Highways made of bitumen. Which is a byproduct of oil refining. As we learned when there was that fuss about the bitumen from Marsden Point being better than the imported stuff.
So like fossil fuels, roads aren't actually sustainable. Something we need to transition away from.
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A cross section of ground from the A303 highway in England that traces the path of the ancient Roman road, the Fosse Way, which has historical significance dating back thousands of years. This route passes by Stonehenge, the famous prehistoric monument, and has been a hub of human activity since the Iron Age and possibly even earlier.
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Winston First have been spreading a story that the poor state of our roads was caused by a change to importing road bitumen, instead of producing it locally at Marsden Point. All because of the last Labour government and those bloody greenies;
https://newsroom.co.nz/2024/02/08/nz-firsts-doomed-deal-to-reopen-marsden-point-refinery/A few points on that.
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Winston First have been spreading a story that the poor state of our roads was caused by a change to importing road bitumen, instead of producing it locally at Marsden Point. All because of the last Labour government and those bloody greenies;
https://newsroom.co.nz/2024/02/08/nz-firsts-doomed-deal-to-reopen-marsden-point-refinery/A few points on that.
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Winston First have been spreading a story that the poor state of our roads was caused by a change to importing road bitumen, instead of producing it locally at Marsden Point. All because of the last Labour government and those bloody greenies;
https://newsroom.co.nz/2024/02/08/nz-firsts-doomed-deal-to-reopen-marsden-point-refinery/A few points on that.
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Winston First have been spreading a story that the poor state of our roads was caused by a change to importing road bitumen, instead of producing it locally at Marsden Point. All because of the last Labour government and those bloody greenies;
https://newsroom.co.nz/2024/02/08/nz-firsts-doomed-deal-to-reopen-marsden-point-refinery/A few points on that.
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