Monday, August 16, 2010

Hennebry Team's anti-public transport rave against rail


The Hennebry Council Team have shown their true colours with their latest attack on the Hamilton-Auckland passenger rail service.

In an empty-headed rant to the Waikato Times editor, the Tania version of the Fighting Hennebrys has tried to drag central Government politics into the local body election campaign by falsely claiming the Hamilton-Auckland passenger train is a Labour Party gimmick.

Many members of the National Party, including Hamilton West MP Tim MacIndoe, have publicly supported the rail service, questioning only its timing – they say it’s a “not if, but when” situation.

The Labour Party had nothing to do with establishing the campaign for the rail service, but they are welcome to support it, and some of its members do.

So also do many thousands of other Hamiltonians, not the least of whom are members of the business community who are forced to waste hours each day in Auckland Motorway traffic jams, not to mention paying a fortune for Auckland parking.

Contrary to Hennebry’s claims, all reports on the potential service to date show that the service would be easily affordable if it received just the normal subsidy buses do at the moment, or rail services do in Auckland and Wellington.

Perhaps Hennebry hasn’t read them, or perhaps she doesn’t believe Hamilton deserves the same public transport support as other major cities?

The Hennebry Team have never supported Hamilton's fast-growing public transport network, trying at various times to:



•cancel Sunday bus services

•cut middle-of-the-day buses

•prevent new bus routes starting

•cut kerbside facilties for bus passengers

•demand large bus fare increases

The Hennebrys that have been elected have NEVER made a positive comment about Hamilton's public transport, so why would anyone expect them to change their spots over a passenger rail service that might help bring the city into the modern age?

Of course, their attitude is hardly surprising when you consider that the "leader" (there's a misnomer if ever there was one) Roger owns seven cars - he's far too busy deciding which one to drive each day without worrying about a good transport system for anyone else!
Written by Dave McPherson and supported by me.

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