7. Question No. 7—TransportHon PAUL GOLDSMITH (National) to the Minister of TransportQuestion No. 7—Transport7. Hon PAUL GOLDSMITH (National) to the Minister of Transport: Does he stand by all his statements policies and actions on transport?Hon PHIL TWYFORD (Minister of Transport): Yes in the context they were given and done.Hon Paul Goldsmith: How can he say as he did yesterday that the Government is taking a balanced approach to transport" when his Associate Minister refers to car fascists and he has said his core objective is to get people out of single-occupant vehicles and into public transport walking and cycling rather than simply to reduce congestion for motorists?Hon PHIL TWYFORD: Well I reject the premise of the member's question. The Associate Minister did not describe motorists as car fascists at all. [Interruption] She most certainly did not.Hon Paul Goldsmith: I raise a point of order Mr Speaker. I never referred to saying motorists were car fascists; I just said she referred to car fascists. What's he saying?Hon PHIL TWYFORD: Well as I said yesterday the Associate Minister said that her words had perhaps been not as well chosen as they might have been but the point she was making and the point I'll make to the member is that we do have a balanced transport policy because our Government understands that cities of any scale must have alongside their roads and motorways decent public transport and walking and cycling. Without that if we only build more motorways which is what that Government did for nine years we end up with chronic congestion in our biggest cities and a ballooning toll of deaths and serious injuries.Hon Simon Bridges: Can the Minister name one genuinely new road his Government is starting?Hon PHIL TWYFORD: I can name a number but we've started work on—Mount Messenger has happened the Manawatū Gorge replacement the State Highway 1 loop road the Matakana link road the Awakino Gorge tunnel bypass the Gills Road upgrade and the Horsham Downs link road.Hon Simon Bridges: Didn't Minister Bridges start all of those?Hon PHIL TWYFORD: Minister Bridges also promised six bridges in Northland and didn't deliver a single one.Hon Simon Bridges: Isn't the true answer in fact it was 10?Rt Hon Winston Peters: Supplementary?SPEAKER: Sorry no. It's not a matter yet. The Minister has to answer.Hon PHIL TWYFORD: Well the Minister might have promised 10 bridges but he delivered none.Rt Hon Winston Peters: Did that Minister inherit a list of promises such as the 10 bridges when one of them was not even a bridge?Hon PHIL TWYFORD: The member is correct and I remember well the election announcement on the side of the road with a pig standing next to the members as they made their pork-barrel campaign announcements.Hon Paul Goldsmith: Is it true that the first two priorities of Let's Get Wellington Moving are (1) to reduce speed limits and widen footpaths and (2) to build more cycleways?Hon PHIL TWYFORD: Well both those things are part of the Let's Get Wellington Moving package but it also includes an additional Mount Victoria Tunnel. It includes fixing the Basin Reserve flyover without a hideous elevated concrete flyover that was the sole commitment or promise that the last National Government made to the Wellington region. But it also includes investment in a rapid transit network better train and bus services more walking and cycling—it is a truly integrated transport package that will unleash the potential of this beautiful city.Hon Paul Goldsmith: Is the reason that he cancelled the planned Tauranga Northern Link because he expects people not to want to use their cars but instead to walk cycle or catch the bus from Ōmokoroa?Hon PHIL TWYFORD: No. The reason that the New Zealand Transport Agency re-evaluated State Highway 2 is that our Government doesn't believe that every single transport problem can be solved by a four-lane dual-carriage expressway. We believe in an integrated transport system in contrast to the former Government that spent 40 percent of the transport budget on five motorway projects that carry 4 percent of vehicle journeys."