In a great voting winning strategy Len Brown has decided to tax the crap out of private transport, meaning only the wealthy will be able to afford to drive. he has many nefarious schemes to do this including congestion charges, taxes on private transport, regional fuel taxes and perhaps most nefarious of all he will stop funding roads.
The Auckland Council’s spatial plan proposes funding public transport improvements with congestion charges, network access charges, a regional fuel tax and levies on private parking spaces.
Sure, this will win him a lot of votes in the chardonnay socialist parts of central auckland but will cost him a lot in his power base of South Auckland.
