People walking and cycling between Featherston and Greytown, or along Wellington’s Eastern Bays will soon have a safe shared path, as part of a $220 million shovel-ready cycleways package announced by Associate Transport Minister Julie Anne Genter.

Aotearoa has a once-in-a-generation opportunity to help solve climate change while creating more vibrant, attractive places to live that are accessible for everyone. Successive governments have spent too much on expensive motorways and underinvested in low-carbon transport infrastructure. This approach caused congestion, environmental harm, and has made it expensive and hard for people to get around. The Green Party is the only political party that will stop building unnecessary motorways that create urban sprawl and confine people to polluting cars....

The Government will invest $35 million to significantly extend the Te Whau coastal pathway in Auckland as part of a $220 million cycleway package, Associate Transport Minister Julie Anne announced today.

The Green Party welcomes the decision to not proceed with Public Public Investment (PPI) delivery of Auckland’s light rail project and to instead run the process through the public service.

The Greens are highlighting fast intercity rail improvements as the type of climate-friendly, job-creating project that should be prioritised for post-COVID-19 economic stimulus investment.

Transport has a major role to play in ensuring a zero-carbon, equitable Aotearoa New Zealand. In this policy, the traditional prioritising of road development and private motoring over all other modes of transport is reversed. For many people, car dependency is an unwanted financial and personal burden. Investment in rail, active transport, electric vehicles and public transport is prioritised so that our towns, cities and rural areas become less car-dependent and the use of fossil fuels for transport is eliminated. ...

The Government will boost investment in road safety upgrades and road policing tools as part of its new Road to Zero strategy and initial action plan launched today by Associate Minister of Transport Julie Anne Genter.

Police will be given new powers to conduct random roadside oral fluid drug testing to deter, detect and prosecute drugged drivers in order to save lives, Associate Transport Minister Julie Anne Genter announced today.  

Discounted electric bikes will be offered up to public sector staff across the country as part of the Government’s work to reduce transport emissions and support healthier transport options.

New Zealand will sign up to new international maritime regulations to reduce ship emissions and lift air quality around ports and harbours, Associate Transport Minister Julie Anne Genter announced today.