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No new funding for cycling & walking
Mōrena. Long stories short; here’s my top six things to note in Aotearoa’s political economy around housing, climate and poverty:
* Simeon Brown is cutting planned investment on cycling and walking over the next three years to $460 million from the $1 billion planned from 2021-24, but there is actually no new funding for 2024-27 as the $460 million is coming from money not spent over the last three years.
* Waka Kotahi-NZTA has disclosed that Brown’s shift to spending more on motorways will increase climate emissions, although it says it has been told not to worry about emissions in the short…
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