Key pledges $50 million to cycleway project

what a total waste of taxpayer money, maybe it will serve a few tourists ,possibly a few more than use the deserted auckland city cycle lanes.These empty city cycle lanes seem to be getting more and more common,while the traffic is squeezed into more and more congestion,lunatic roading management.

The cuts to ACC John, SAVED JOBS this week!

Or if you not so negative 500 labour's a year's work plus materials.

So $50 million is being spent to create a few temporary labouring jobs, but hundreds of others are being dropped? This Govt has singlehandedly fired more people than saved jobs.

Will Nats supporters consider those building the track bureaucrats, since they're working for the Govt?

To StateoftheNation and Alien.

Rubbish!!! Who is going to pay for the upkeep of these cycle tracks? How many cyclists will you need to cover the cost and the maintenance? This will just be another drain on the taxpayer that cyclists for one will not be willing to contribute to just as they are opposed to paying anything toward the existing roads. I'm sure neither of you are in favour of increased taxes and probably voted National in order to get the promised and not to be delivered tax cuts. Better buy a bike because that's the only way you'll see any of your tax money back.

John. Auckland.

To Kein & John:

This was an initiative bought up in the job summit, this has nothing to do with Dorkland getting its bloody motorway, and certainly is not being built for 'a few enthusiasts', it's an employment initiative with lead on for tourism.

Progress has to happen, like it or not. If some people are put out for the benefit of the rest, then that is unfortunately what needs to happen.

This cycle was is a brilliant idea. As a tourism marketer, it is a dream come true. Tourists also need to know that our country isn't just that horrible concrete jungle between the Waitemata and Manukau harbours, that it is a beautiful place to come, and spend money.

The people in Auckland will be compensated for their homes, if they have any sense they will move to somewhere else in the country, and life will go on.

The cycle lane will be built, bringing employment to a lot of people, who care more about feeding their children than a motorway. It will bring in extra income to other areas of the country once completed.

And as for the ACC comment, well thats just a big thank you to everyone who kept Uncle Helen in for the past 9 years.

To Kevin and John:

Maybe this is because NZ is not JUST

I take it John you don't realise just how much money these tracks can bring in? Kevin, you might actually want to look at the south island bike rides, how booked in advance they, and how much money they actually bring into the local economy as well as jobs, and how many tourists come and ride them. I don't think aucklanders really have any idea how popular these sorts of things are, how much money they rake in, and how many people actually are coming from overseas to ride them.

So the Government doesn't mind bulldozing almost 400 homes to save $1.3 billion because it saves money, but they have no problem with spending $50 million on a bloody pathway so people can bike down it. The number of people using this pathway will be minimal compared to the number using the western ring route, but the government has no problem cutting back the route development plan so they can spend almost 40% of the alleged savings on something to help a few bike enthusiasts. Where the hell are your priorities Key?

Surely with the huge cuts to ACC etc. and the dire state of the NZ economy he's either joking or he's an idiot.

John. Auckland.