Website raises Auckland roading issues

A website aimed at making Auckland public transport and roading networks an election issue was launched yesterday.

The website - set up by the Employers and Manufacturers Association - outlines the issues and how political parties plan to deal with them. It also allows people to vent their anger on its road blog at issues such as traffic woes.

"We just want to make sure all political parties know ignoring this massive issue isn't an option," said EMA chief executive Alasdair Thompson.

He said the situation needed vast improvements or Auckland would grind to a halt.

"Money isn't the problem. The constraints are the Resource Management Act, the Land Transport Management Act, the capacity of the likes of Transit NZ to meet its plans ... they're struggling."

He said the site had had more than 500 petition signatures over the first day and EMA members had yet to be notified.

The campaign will be bolstered by billboards and radio advertising from August 1, he said.