AT BUSWAY: WHAT AN ABYSMAL FAILURE
Auckland Transport has spent about three years disrupting our lives to build a 2.4-kilometre busway between Panmure and Pakuranga.
I walked from my home in Pakuranga to a business in Panmure, and was disgusted with the abysmal failure in the fundamentals:
■ Weed forests on both sides of the bridge.
■ Several oxygen-producing trees over 2 metres tall planted and left to die along the roadside.
■ Multiple oxygen-producing shrubs between the tree corpses also dead in the ground.
■ A concrete seat to admire the view across the Tamaki River has a thick wooden barrier at eye level.
We pay a bloody fortune in rates and Auckland’s fuel tax, which is specifically supposed to fund these projects, yet the reprobates who extort these billions can’t even be bothered to do a proper job with the oxygen factory spaces. But they’ll inflate their egos with delusions of grandeur on how wonderful their efforts are.
Is this what we pay so dearly for? Is this what we get for our money that they take from us?
Are we supposed to pay for these failures to be fixed?
The cost of caring for plants is insignificant compared to the cost of 2.4km of busway.
The use of transparent railings or a raised seat to facilitate a view costs nothing more than foresight.
The negligence and incompetence that is AT stems from sheer laziness and brazen lack of respect.
AT yet again demonstrates irrefutably that it doesn’t give a damn about us and it is obsessed only with egos and does only what it can gloat about.
How do we, the people who pay these reprobate rich listers’ salaries, hold them accountable for their failures?
Or are the people of Panmure and Pakuranga so low class that they don’t care about their neighbourhoods?
Brian Cox, Pakuranga