GREENS TRANSPORT POLICY JUST DROPPED ✅ 💸 free bus and train fares for kids, students, total mobility users, community service cardholders and under 25s 💸 no more than $2 per trip for everyone else 🚃 overnight passenger train service between Auckland and Wellington ‼️ 🚃 $900m for Wellington’s regional rail critical upgrades to improve reliability of passenger services 🚃 regional rail to Tauranga; between Christchurch and Dunedin; and 150 new regional bus services so you can see your beautiful country without having to fork out for a flight 🚌 mass rapid transit in Wellington and Christchurch (yes, we are jealous of the CRL) 🚌 $75m to electrify our busses ♿️ $290m for walking and biking upgrades (accessibility!! Widening footpaths, curb cutting and taking bikes and scooters off the footpaths) 🏙️ revitalise town centres like Courtenay Place Thank you to Wellington Regional Council homie Yadana Saw for helping break it down. Regional council is in charge of the trains and buses so good to have Yadana’s expertise up in there, especially around how badly we need to fund the continually deferred maintenance of our beloved Wellington regional rail network. Everyone always looks for new and shiny, but we can’t forget looking after what we already have!!! 💚💚