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I'm with you on the philosophy, it's totally flawed to say "we have a traffic problem so let's build more roads", the Hutt is tragic on the weekends in no small part due to the fact the trains are always not running for maintainece, plus there's no good transport out to wainui etc.
Part of the issue is people are doing different things on the weekends that aren't easy to do with public transport, such as shopping, sports, visiting friends etc.
It's the same in Wellington, traffic is often worse during the weekend.
If you spend all your time building roads then people will tightly use those roads. Population of Welly isn't even that big and it's full to the brim with cars. Huge cars that are unnecessary and badly driven.
Remove cars from the roads should be the ultimate goal. Some jobs require vehicles and they should be on the roads but a vast majority commute into the town and then sit in an office all day.
We absolutely need school buses and stop parents picking up kids from schools.
Would likely be a good idea to get shuttle buses to pick up commutes too. We don't all need to drive our utes and SUVs to the city centre every single day. C'mon now.