Quote Originally Posted by Waltzingironmansinlgescul View Post

Anyone who has lived in the bike friendly towns and cities in some parts of europe will understand that street planning is critical. NZ towns were run by farmers in the 50's and they dont ride bikes. Today many towns are going to face a problem and many have even recently failed to create the environment for lower targets, Greta even took a swipe at this place this week.

You can see it in town planning and street development. NZ has a problem in that its dispersion means the EV is the only solution which means a complete fleet replacement.
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.