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Ford Ranger Man drives over Michael Wood
TLDR: This is how politics works in the real world: outrage erupts over the prospect of fuel taxes being used to build cycle paths, so that plan is dumped within 12 hours, and ‘Ford Ranger Man’ wins again.
New PM Chris Hipkins jumped in yesterday to overturn a Ministry of Transport strategy to prioritise transport spending around climate emissions reduction over the next three years, rather than road repairs and building new roads.
That came after the NZ Herald led yesterday with the detail of the inevitable prioritisation in the proposed strategy of spending fuel tax and road user charge…
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