John MacDonald: Road user charges for everyone not the answer

For an outfit that doesn’t like red tape, the National Party seems to be having some sort of brain explosion.

Because it doesn't just want EV owners to pay road user charges - which I don’t think anyone would disagree with - it also wants to go the whole hog and get rid of fuel taxes completely and make everyone pay road user charges.

Mike Hosking: Michael Wood was dragged kicking and screaming back to reality

There it was.

At 7 o'clock yesterday morning Michael Wood, the lover of trains and cycleways, was on this programme waxing lyrical about the new spending priorities for our transport system.

I asked him whether it was more important to get a cycleway up or give Coromandel Highway 25A back. He said they were doing both, which of course isn't remotely true.

We were told just this time yesterday that climate change was top of the pile in terms of priorities when it came to handing out money for transport.