WRITTEN ON May 17th, 2009 BY kiwivera AND STORED IN bucklame, kiwiland

Tags: auckland, new zealand, politics, subway, transportation

it’s something that i took for granted for 23 years until i moved to auckland and had to realise that, no matter how advanced a city wants to be, if there aren’t enough tax payers and there’s a large area to cover, the public transport system is going to be crappy.’crappy’ is, indeed, a euphemism for the public transport system in bucklame. but like i said just a few words ago, it is understandable, considering that there aren’t enough tax payers to cover such a large area.  i know nothing about the subject, like 99.9% of people that have an opinion on something, but my guess is that it would be fairly easy to make some little improvements (more buses & better routes, please!). however, i do realise that a subway system is extremely expensive to build and auckland can’t afford do have one.

or can it? the discussion now seems to have been added to an official agenda to be discussed by authorities this week, according to stuff.co.nz. will auckland residents and visitors have access to underground transport in a near(-ish) future? my feeling is that nothing will be done about it because they’ll quickly realise that it is an unbearable expense at the moment. still, if auckland really wants to be a super city, it better live up to the title.