to walking, cycling and ignoring motorcycles or tacking them on as an afterthought/p.c. decision Donna Diabolical. I don't have to travel peak times thank goodness, but it is still very frustrating getting around. You can never tell if your journey that should take 30 mins (10 mins in Christchurch) will take an hour or more. With 1 mil people, Auckland should receive 1/4 of the roading allocation to correct this nightmare. Warren In 1950 Aucklanders used 100 million trips on public transport compared to about 60 million trips in 2006.(Aucklands population has nearly doubled during that period) The price of public transport in Auckland is arguably too high. Auckland's Public transport system has the worse patronage in Australasia. This is a reinforcing or cyclic problem where the lack of passengers leads to inadequate and expensive services which discourage people from using it in the first place. There are more cars per capita in Auckland than any other city in the world. Auckland regional council spent $66 million in subsidising bus fares last year(Thats our money). the public spent $99 on top of that subsidy to pay for buses. while the bus company that got $63 million of the $66 million dollars in subsidies made a profit of over $33 million dollars- over half of the government subsidy. Do you see something wrong here? Samuel We need to ban cars with less than two people in during peak times. Shaun Very, Very bad. I live in Pukekohe and would like to