Matisyahu's Blog

Back home from work and I decided that tonight I’ll have a night off because I had some exercise this morning and kept to my meal plan for today. The train ride back from work was good – I’m not too sure whether it is just me but I’ve noticed that the speed of the train appears to be a lot better in particularly when it comes to the stopping and acceleration between stations. These sorts of upgrades are long term projects that require sustained investments over the term so if there is one saving grace it has been the fact that both National and Labour have continued investing in rail even though I think National should be investing a lot more particularly when it comes to getting freight trucks off the road in favour of rail.

I’ve been watching the news about the potential impact of oil shortages and although it is fashionable to beat up on the government of the day there is very little that can be done other than tweaking with the exercise taxes etc. What ideally needs to be done when it comes to insulating New Zealand from these oil shocks is to invest into public transport and alternative modes of transport such as investing into cycle paths particularly in parts of New Zealand where the population density isn’t sufficient enough to justify investing into a bus service but alternative forms of transportation could be build.