The New Zealand government is proposing to lift restrictions on heavy vehicle weights and road access to address the fuel crisis, but critics warn of increased road damage, noise, and maintenance costs amid existing climate-related infrastructure stress.
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You're right. So the way fuel tax works is it goes straight into the Land Transport Fund. The Land Transport Fund is used for a number of things. It's used for funding public transport subsidies. It's used for rebuilding roads after disaster. It's used for fixing potholes on the road. It's used for building new bridges and roads. So if you reduce the amount of money going into that fund by having less petrol tax, then you reduce the money for transport initiatives and policies. That would be the trade-off. As you've heard me say on the show before, there is no free lunch, but we recognise that New Zealanders are really hurting with the fuel price and that matters a great deal to us.
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