Support for Mayors 10 year budget - Generation Zero

Thursday, 30 April 2015, 1:09 pm
Press Release: Generation Zero

Support for Mayors 10 year budget - Generation Zero

Youth organisation, Generation Zero, is supportive of the 10 year Long Term Plan that Auckland Mayor Len Brown released today, specifically endorsing the Mayor’s focus on essential cycling, walking and public transport projects.

The Mayor today released Auckland Council’s 10 year budget after analysing feedback from the community on the draft Long Term Plan. The Mayor’s budget is supportive of the Auckland Plan Transport Network and acknowledges the need to prioritise projects that offer transport choices over the next 3 years. This follows public feedback on the Long Term Plan which demonstrated that Aucklanders urgently wanted more invested in public transport and cycling.

Spokesperson Dr Sudhvir Singh explains; “The Mayor’s budget is another step in the right direction for Auckland. This budget is an opportunity to prioritise the essential public transport, walking and cycling projects that Aucklanders have called for.”

The Mayor’s budget is proposing to fund immediate new investment in transport of $500 million over the next 3 years with an interim fixed levy of $2 per week on Aucklanders.

“We’re pleased to see the Mayor has taken on the recommendations we made in our report Fix Our City, that proposed essential walking, cycling and public transport projects should be prioritised” explains Dr Singh. Over 3000 Aucklanders submitted in favour of the essential transport budget proposed in Fix Our City, which called for $80 million of additional annual funding to the basic plan proposal to fund high value public transport, walking and cycling projects.

“This is generally a balanced budget from the Mayor, looking at the information that is currently available, however we need to see more detail of the specific projects funded in the next 3 years.”

ENDS.

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