Traffic taxing

An interesting report that proposes, in the main, more taxes on road users while forgetting that everyone is a road user.

If Mr Jones the butcher does not transport both himself and his meat to his place of work Mrs Smith the mother will not be able to feed her children the nutritious and healthy food they need to grow big and strong even if Mrs Smith doesn't drive.

https://nzinitiative.org.nz/reports-and-media/reports/the-price-is-right-the-road-to-a-better-transport-system/

They actually mean more tax on vehicle owners, a far different thing.

I note however that no report on transport I've read addresses the main need in NZ cities to reduce fuel consumption and therefore the amount of rubbish vehicles pump into the air.

That need, of course, is to get that motorised traffic flowing freely and efficiently and no constantly stopping and starting at badly thought out city traffic control systems.

Instead the reverse is true with cities traffic flows being designed to impede the motorists by slowing and stopping vehicle progress - usually to enable roadlice to be free and easy, always at someone else's expense.

The cities then, as Christchurch is doing right now, realise people who prefer to drive vehicles are avoiding those cities and are going elsewhere.

Noticeably those cities never, ever, admit their stupidity and the situation continues to deteriorate while the traffic mis-management carry on designing new impediments.

The solution is rather simple and will both improve traffic flow in the long term and bring people back into the city.

That solution: We should turn off all traffic lights and string up and flog every traffic engineer and city councillor along the main road of each city, daily.

It won't improve congestion but drivers will be so excited at the prospect of going around again to view, from the start, the line of being dealt to no-hopers they will drive both carefully and promptly.

Thereafter traffic flow in our cities will improve dramatically.