Thread: Component shortage

Originally Posted by Cyclops

We'd all like more maintenance on our roads.

How would you like to fund that?
Increased fuel taxes and increased RUC?
Increased PAYE or increased property rates?
@striker's comments suggest that the damage is caused by heavier vehicle traffic. Should they pay higher RUC which will be passed onto consumers?

Remember EVs aren't paying RUC (at present) and don't pay fuel taxes.

We're often quick to identify the problem, slower to help fund the cure.

the heavier units do less damage, higher productivity for less trips, more axles at the same or lower weigh per axle that a 46ton general access truck weighs. and we pay thru the nose for it too.
you really need to follow the funding, and where it ends up, the current cost of RUC and fuel excise is more than enough to fund world class roads.
especially when it goes in to the national land transport fund and pays for competing rail, cycle ways at say 1mil per km, the new ferries come under too so Im told as they are considered SH1
https://www.nzta.govt.nz/planning-an...bout-the-nltp/