petition
Save the Northland to Auckland Rail Line Petition
5th of April 2011
The petition has been extended from the 30th of March 2011 out to the 31st of August 2011.
You will need to get a copy of this updated ( and double sided ) version ( with the new cutoff date inserted) , which being in .pdf format , cannot easily be provided herein
but send an e-mail to us @
savenorthlandrail@gmail.com or thewayforward2011@gmail.com
and we'll forward it through to you with all speed !
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Sent: Monday, January 24, 2011 10:05 AM
Subject: petition to protect and enhance Northland rail
Hello all, I am just sending a petition which some of you maybe interested in spreading around and getting a few signatures.
Here are 3 key points about the issue, but if you want more information I can send you more reading material.
Kiwirail who operate and run NZs rail system are proposing to close the rail line between Auckland and Whangarei.
In effect this will kill northlands rail.
With the projected number of logging trucks to double over coming years, as a method of extracting the mature pine forests in Northland, our roads are soon to be even busier with trucks. In our eyes it makes economic and environmental sense to use the existing train line.
One train carrys the equivalent of 280 Trucks or more and the Ministry of Transports 2005 study (currently being updated) concludes that trucks only meet 56% of their costs for roads, while motorists pay 64% of their costs, buses 63% and rail 77%. [1].
Sure the rail needs investment to bring it back up to speed, but we must have this discussion because if we loose the rail now, we will have lost it for ever.
Thanks for your interest. Regards James
[1] www.transport.govt.nz/research/understandingtransportcostsandchargesuttc/
Sent by the Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand.
To print the petition, click this link to the .pdf file