Tag: Gerry Brownlee

Government Misleads on Public Transport Spending In Auckland

Cameron Pitches | March 28, 2013 | Politics & Governance
A Herald article last month highlighted strong support for more Government spending on public transport improvements in Auckland. It included the following quote: But a spokesman for Transport Minister Gerry Brownlee said that with $890 million budgeted for public transport in Auckland over three years “it would be grossly unfair to suggest the Government hasn’t given this mode of transport the priority it deserves”.…
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CRL in Parliament again

Matt L | March 22, 2013 | Rapid Transit & Rail
The CRL has been raised once again in Parliament with Green spokesperson Julie-Anne Genter questioning Gerry Brownlee on the CCFAS. A full transcript of it is here. Gerry has clearly taken the first question very literally and his response was at least a little bit funny.…
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City Rail Link – not if but when?

Mr Anderson | February 21, 2013 | Rapid Transit & Rail
An interesting article in the NZ Herald on Tuesday, noting some comments made by Transport Minister Gerry Brownlee and Auckland Council head planner Roger Blakeley, in relation to the City Rail Link project. Starting with Brownlee: Transport Minister Gerry Brownlee told a transport summit in Wellington yesterday that the case for the $2.86 billion rail link would be stronger in 2030 than the council’s target.…
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Petrol taxes hiked by 9c a litre over three years

Peter M | December 18, 2012 | Streets & Roads
The NZ Herald reports: The Government will increase petrol tax by three cents a litre each July 1 for the next three years. Transport Minister Gerry Brownlee said road user charges would also be increased by an equivalent amount. He said the increases were required to deliver the “Roads of National Significance” programme and other roading projects to the timeline set out in the Government’s land transport funding policy.…
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Political response to the CCFAS Ctd.

Matt L | December 14, 2012 | Rapid Transit & Rail
Following on from my post yesterday, Radio NZ had a number of discussion about the CCFAS yesterday including a chat with Gerry Brownlee and Len Brown about the response. Here is Brownlee: Or listen to it here. Most telling is at 1:25 when after being questioned if his officials don’t agree with the report responds with “Well they certainly agree with the position I’ve taken today”.…
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Gerry Brownlee on the CRL

Matt L | November 30, 2012 | Rapid Transit & Rail
Phil Tywford asked transport minister Gerry Brownlee in parliament yesterday about the CRL Transscript is here. Perhaps it is just me dreaming but Gerry did at least seem less negative about it than he had in the past. Based on his answers it suggests he waiting for the final version of the CCFAS to come across his desk before he can properly comment.…
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What really happened with Snapper/HOP – Part 2

Peter M | November 7, 2012 | Policy & Technology
Following on from my post yesterday on the Snapper/HOP mess, I felt that a lot of further questions remained unanswered. Phil Twyford attempted to get some answers out of the Minister of Transport in parliament: While questions around why Auckland Transport decided to allow Snapper to become involved in the HOP scheme remain frustratingly unanswered (perhaps until I read a bit further into the mountain of information I have), a question that I want to look at in this post relates a bit more closely to the title of this post – why did things go wrong?…
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