Over the years there have been a few great cartoons about transport, here are a few of them. Most are from the Herald.
28 April 2014 – NZ Herald – the day the first electric trains started running.
9 March 2013 – NZ Herald – In response to the Auckland’s desire for more investment in public transport.
19 December 2012 – NZ Herald – On the governments increasing of fuel tax to pay for the RoNS
18 December 2012 – NZ Herald – On the CRL after the release of the City Centre Future Access Study which found the CRL to be the best option for improving access to the city centre.
11 August 2011 – Dominion Post
9 June 2011 – The Press – After one of the Independent Māori Statutory Board members suggested there was a Taniwha in the way of the CRL.
1 December 2010 – NZ Herald – After the release of the initial CRL business case
8 May 2009 – Listener – In response to Stephen Joyce announced a new route for the Waterview tunnels
17 March 2009 – NZ Herald – Joyce’s plan for rail in Auckland
February 2008 – NZ Herald – The day after the Northern Express opened. Has thankfully been proven very wrong.
10 February 2008 – NZ Herald
I’m sure there are some other great ones out there. If you know of any link to them in the comments.
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Mostly about Christchurch and Gerry; but consistently the best: http://porcupinefarm.blogspot.co.nz/2014/04/loose-caboose.html
Great post. My personal favourite is the dear departed Auckland Star’s cartoon with its solution to the traffic problem on the Auckland Harbour Bridge https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B2zrefxeKmQIb0VQMl9JUm15QWM/edit?usp=sharing
tee hee, tee hee hee. That is brilliant!
Well this is apposite for a nation still run by people who think flyovers are good for cities;
Excellant
Great post Matt – I love the Northern Busway one. It reminds me of the editorial John Roughan wrote rubbishing the Northern Busway. He argued that people would never use it and it’d have to be highly subsidised. Five years later the Northern Express is running at 100% cost recovery and is bursting at the seams. I think he may have even called it a “white elephant”.
He also stated that within a few years it would simply be turned over as an extra car lane such would be the failure, in fact he said that that was the one saving grace, the guaranteed repurposing of it back to cars. NZ Herald on several occasions ran articles that it should be converted to a T3 as well.
Unfortunately most of the Herald and Roughan in particular can generally be relied upon to be perfectly wrong.
One more from Ian Lockwood.
I guess it’s good to poke fun at the obstinacy of a government that has obstructed what Auckland needs for so long, and is now foisting upon it what it doesn’t need. Same with Wellington. Same with rest of country. But it really is no laughing matter. It’s a monumental blunder in-the-making, by a group of ministers who are unbelievably slow-on-the-uptake and should not be in charge of the country.
I agree entirely. It’s good for a laugh, but the gross misallocation of resources into dubious transport projects (RoNS) and further sprawl is a disgrace.
Car use is in decline in most of our trading partners and peers, and when NZ catches up with that trend (there’s always a lag down here) these really will be seen for the desperate, ideologically-driven attempts to turn the tide they are.