CEAC - Gov't fund NZ rail freight/passenger services
“CEAC - Gov't fund NZ rail freight/passenger
services.”
Citizens Environmental
Advocacy Centre Incorporated (CEAC)
Press release 1st December
2019.
Letter to -
Labour party MPs at Labour party
conference.
IMPORTANT
Today 1st
December 2019, at the Labour Party conference, the press has
reported that infrastructure funding boost will be made here
today and we await the funding boost to Gisborne/HB rail
freight/passenger services be made as these regions have
been without rail services for 7 long years since
2012.
No more road
subsidies without similar subsidies for rail services
please.
This press
release below was sent out 11th September 2019 criticising
lack of ‘rail focus.’ during ‘Infrastructure NZ
’plea to Government for more funding.
CEAC supports $6 Billion for
infrastructure
Wednesday, 11 September 2019, 7:44
am
Press Release: Citizens Environmental Advocacy
Centre
CEAC supports ‘Infrastructure NZ’ (INZ) CEO
Paul Blair to seek an increase in more ‘transformation
rather than incremental’ change to promote ‘national’
community wellbeing so that is a positive step forward if
increased use of rail is signalled here.
The result of
the 2019 ‘Building Nations’ Symposium from 21-23 August
forum polling was to seek ‘transformation rather than
incremental’ change with a $6 billion dollar boost to
regional infrastructure funding by industry leaders.
QUOTE; “Our proposal, which almost three-quarters of
respondents supported, would double the current $3 billion
Provincial Growth Fund into a $6 billion Regional Growth
Fund and use it as a tool to align central and local
government investment.
That sounds good but sadly
there was no mention of rail once again so we fear they are
lobbying only for roading.
*Government must fund publicly owned
rail properly as Kiwi Rail lacks adequate funding for staff,
locomotives and rolling stock to service all regions to
upgrade our export regions by rail freight services such as
our Gisborne/HB regions.
QUOTE; Paul Blair;
“Respondents overwhelmingly supported more tools for
local and regional governments in order to unlock the full
potential of our regions; - Three-quarters of the
infrastructure sector have called for transformation, rather
than incremental change, of the culture and incentives
between central and local government to work together to
promote national well-being,” says Infrastructure NZ CEO
Paul Blair.”
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO1909/S00130/infrastructure-sector-calls-for-transformational-reform.htm
CEAC would be delighted to hear from (INZ) that rail was
also part of that $6 Billion Dollar also, so we shall
see.
IMPORANT
Today 1st
December 2019, at the Labour Party conference, the press has
reported that infrastructure funding boost will be made here
today and we await the funding boost to Gisborne/HB rail
freight/passenger services be made as these regions have
been without rail services for 7 long years since
2012.
*Government
must fund publicly owned rail properly as Kiwirail lacks
adequate funding for staff, locomotives and rolling stock to
service all regions to upgrade our export regions by rail
freight services such as our Gisborne/HB
regions.
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
The Labour party must take this into
consideration here, as the health of all citizens are at
stake if even more truck se instead of rail is
used.
Subject; -
CEAC public health notice - Study; - Quote; “Living
near a busy road can stunt children's lung growth, a UK
report has shown.
Children's
health was found to be affected by staying within 50 metres
of the road.”
Read the press release today below.
https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/world/2019/11/living-near-a-busy-road-may-stunt-children-s-lung-growth-study.html
26 November 2019
HEALTH
Living near a busy road may
stunt children's lung growth - study
Sae Strang
The study also revealed one-third of Londoners are thought to live near a busy road.
Living near a busy road can stunt children's lung growth, a UK report has shown.
Children's health was found to be affected by staying within 50 metres of the road.
The study recorded the effect of roadside pollution across 13 cities in the UK and Poland.
It found 14 percent of kids in Oxford
had stunted lung growth, while in London 13 per cent were
affected and 8 percent in Birmingham.
Related News
The study also revealed one-third of Londoners, an estimated 3 million people, are thought to live near a busy road.
According to the research, written by King's College London and released by a coalition of 15 health and environment non-governmental organizations (NGO) said, living near a road with heavy traffic may increase your risk of developing lung cancer by up to ten percent.
The new study also showed an increased risk of cardiac arrest, heart disease, stroke, lung cancer, bronchitis as well as reduced lung function in children who live near a traffic-ridden road.
Amongst the report, the coalition of NGOs has been calling on politicians to commit to taking steps to in order to reduce the drastic state of illegal air pollution across the UK to meet World Health Organisation (WHO) guidelines.
"Air pollution makes us, and especially our children, sick from cradle to grave, but is often invisible. This impressive research makes this public health crisis - which affects people all across the UK - visible, and shows the urgency with which all political parties must prioritise cleaning up our air," said Dr Rob Hughes, Senior Fellow at the Clean Air Fund in the King's College London press release.
This is the first time
a wide range of health conditions and cities have been
analysed in one report.
End
Please keep this
evidence as a record of residential health concerns to be
mitigated.
CEAC encourage to see a
Government who is caring, considerate inclusive and
responsive to citizens’ concerns.
Ken
Crispin
Secretary.
CEAC
In’c, 2001.
Director - CER Lt’d.
2002.