Tag: Transport

The Green Party is voicing its opposition to Transit New Zealand's proposal to toll the billion dollar plus State Highway 20 project.

KEITH LOCKE (Green): The Green Party has had a tremendous reaction from around the country since we launched a petition yesterday at both the Auckland and Wellington railway stations calling on

Green MPs Keith Locke and Nandor Tanczos — based in Auckland and Hamilton respectively — have backed calls for a commuter rail link between the two cities.

The release of the Auckland Road Pricing Evaluation Study today has once again highlighted the need for a high quality public transport system in Auckland, Green Party Associate Transport Spokesperson Keith Locke says.

Green MP Keith Locke is pleased people with minor sex offences won't be totally excluded from driving buses and taxis, but is disappointed the transport and industrial relations select committee had made it more difficult for some other former o

Land Transport New Zealand should hold off enforcing the sex offender section of the new passenger license law until the needed amendments are in place in a month or so, Green Party Associate Transport Spokesperson Keith Locke says.

The cases of bus and taxi drivers losing their licenses for long-past minor sexual offences is exactly what the Green Party warned would happen when the new land transport law was being debated last year.

The Green Party welcomes the up-to-$600 million Government funding package for Auckland's rail network announced today, but is disappointed it doesn't include electrification, Auckland Transport Spokesperson Keith Locke says.

Air New Zealand and Qantas are wrong to ban men from sitting alongside unaccompanied children on their planes, Green Party Human Rights Spokesperson Keith Locke says.