Kerre Woodham: Are people really gagging for $350 million into public transport?

I hope you had a great weekend if you were at Billy Joel, wasn't it fabulous?! What a showman. What an amazing performer. I mean, Eden Park is not ideal acoustically, I guess for somebody like Billy, but he made it work. The crowd made it work. It was a wonderful, wonderful experience.  So if you were lucky enough to go as I was, then I hope you had a great night. We looked at getting a bus. My daughter and I attended the concert and we looked at getting a bus from the North Shore because we thought that would be easy.  But then when Kate looked up the timetable, it was going to be an hour and a half to get there. Which you know, it's a long time to be spending on a bus. Long time to be spent on any form of transportation when it's only a few kilometres away, so we got an Uber and were there in 20.   When Michael Wood is trumpeting the $350 million transport choices package, which he claims people are just gagging for, desperate to see 397 new or upgraded bus stops.  Clamouring for 242 kilometres of cycleways to encourage the uptake of cycling. Begging for more walkable neighbourhoods. I'm like: are they? Are they really Michael?  So 46 councils across New Zealand, from large cities to small provincial towns, will receive funding so that the communities have more transport options. He said the Government is upgrading NZ transport infrastructure system to make it safer, greener and more efficient for now, and future generations to come. And you know, good to be able to future-proof. Cities and towns. But it's got to be efficient. It's got to be efficient.  This whole alternate universe that's out there where you've got New Zealanders screaming for public transport -  I just don't see it. But maybe that's just me. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.