P.Staite korero cont. I return to my initial point, there has to be a willing seller and a willing buyer – and - compulsory acquisition has to follow a check box ticking exercise, and even then, generally there would need to be a state of emergency (disease outbreak, biosecurity, national disaster, public security) national interest type justification to lead towards such acquisition, there is more unwillingness to utilise this provision due to the recent UN Conventions NZ signed to in regards the Recognition of Aboriginal Rights, and the general detrimental Maori Land Grabbers stigma our government has been guilty of since 1840. Only a small section of the bypassing traffic (the odd logging trust speeding to the Tauranga port to build up the huge stockpile of logs for when the next ship arrives for them) AND this will only occur while a log-rush is on, and the Taupo forests forest harvesting plan can maintain supply of those logs) alternatively the logs go by rail to the same Port of Tauranga, OR as we know, more often they are trucked to the Port of Napier for export. The forests may not last long you know. Dont be fooled. Monitor the flow of numbers of trucks for yourself. Note the long spells Te Ngae Road has no traffic on it for hundreds of metres outside of two peak hour timeframes, and that most of those peak hour vehicles wont be destined to Tauranga, as observations are that they live at the lakes residential zones to towards lake Tarawera, and all the eastern suburbs off Te Ngae Rd. These locals are the main traffic flow in congested traffic flow times. The REA route is a bypass for the odd logging freight truck at the price of millions and in the face of huge opposition – its not designed for local road users – on for certain folk who dont like trucks going past their house on Te Ngae Road. Will we profit for economic growth on the suggestion that getting logs to the port faster will make us richer, faster, when the trucks end up in a line waiting to be unloaded for a longer duration that what they gained in time travelling on the REA bypass. Then there is the huge stockpile waiting for a ship to arrive in port. We dont see log ships lined up in a panic at the Port of Tauranga waiting for the logging trucks to bring the logs through Ngapuna at the moment do we. Hello!
Posted on: Mon, 12 Aug 2013 20:08:58 +0000
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