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Auckland Transport (AT) has copped a serve from the climate action advocacy group Extinction Rebellion for not making better progress on reducing transport emissions.
In 2022, Auckland Council and AT endorsed the Transport Emissions Reduction Pathway (TERP) with the target of halving Auckland’s regional emissions by 2030.
At an AT board meeting on March 26, Extinction Rebellion spokesperson Caril Cowan said it was appalling how little progress had been made on the TERP initiative.
“Why aren’t people on their bikes; why aren’t they walking? Because it’s not safe,” Cowan said. “We’ve still got town planning from about the 1950s, which was all for the private car.”
Cowan urged AT to take action.
AT chair Richard Leggat said that there was not enough funding to bring effect to the TERP.
“Auckland needs a desirable public transport system. That will go a long way to reducing our emissions,” Leggat said.
Cowan responded that it was false accounting to not consider the cost of more and more disasters like last year’s storms.
