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the new national transport plan steers NZ back to a car-dependent past

  • Written by Timothy Welch, Senior Lecturer in Urban Planning, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau
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The government’s new National Land Transport Programme (NLTP) could easily have been renamed the “highway funding project”, given its intense focus on road building.

Released yesterday, the plan outlines funding priorities for the next three years. If it comes to fruition, much of the spending will be driven into major...

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