Day of National Significance

6th of July 2011 - the Save Kapiti group along with other groups with similar concerned staged a March on Parliament against the motorway of 'National' significance that is being bulldozed through their 'Community of National Significance'. See what's actually planned for the day here.

And here's a page with links to media reports on the event.

There are several other communities of 'National Significance' around New Zealand who are directly affected by the so called Roads of 'National' Significance projects and the closure of our regional railways AND there are a great many more of us People of National Significance out here who are concerned about the 'road' the National Government is taking us down. Please consider getting together with others in your area to discuss these issues and get photos of yourselves ( with placards etc) to send with messages to your MPs to let them know that you want to see an approach to the provision of transport infrastructure that will be more sensitive to the communities and environments that they are supposed to serve and more appropriate to the post peak oil age that we are already heading into.

Save Our Rail Northland met in Whangarei on Thursday the 16th of June 2011 to come up with ideas for actions that we can take part in wherever we happen to be on the day. They will be creating a human railway at Mander Park in Whangarei ( to highlight both the selling of that park for road widening and the proposed dismantling of the North Auckland and Dargaville railway lines ) . See what's actually planned for the day in Whangarei here and an article in the Northern Advocate on Saturday the 25 th of June 2011

"Plankers rallying for rail line"

Other groups such as the Rail and Marine Transport Union will be sending photos of groups of themselves with placards to MPs.

These are just a couple of examples of ideas activities that we can carry out wherever we happen to be at mid-day on the 6th of July 2011.

We'll keep posting other ideas we hear of for the Day of National Significance page on this web-page.

What could you do in your area on the day ?

Let us know @ thewayforward2011@gmail.com