Originally Posted by
ratkin
EV has to be high priority. NZ will never ditch the car, and Govts time and again fail to provide alternatives. After the chch earthquakes, council spent millions consulting with top European planners from the Netherlands etc, then promptly ignored everything they said. A great opportunity to restructure the city was wasted.
We need to see massive subsidies, to encourage EV use and gas guzzling 4x4s need to be hit hard with extra taxes. Because if the govt will not bring in trams etc, then that is the only alternative.