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Isn't the irony here that making cars sit idling instead of getting where they're going causes more pollution?
Who are these protests convincing? Do they even say what their demands are other than a completely unspecific and unhelpful "combat climate change"?
They actually are quite specific in what they want, they want a restoration of all our intercity rail services, to a level of service that existed back in the nineties. It's not about commuter rail, as many commenters here seem to think.
In other words, they want the government to spend a few hundred mill on rolling stock, and still more on other subsidies, on a service that would take nearly twice as long to go between Auckland and Wellington as a bus. They've completely lost touch with reality.
This is also ignoring the fact that diesel rail isn't that much better than road transport, and can even be worse.