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Every year, in the lead-up to March, the traffic grinds to halt as motorways in Auckland back up with bumper-to-bumper cars.
The media has dubbed this annual occurrence March Madness to reflect the frustration of every commuter trying to get to work.
After two years of Covid-19 disruptions, this problem is well and truly back – and it hasn’t been helped by massive disruptions across our public transport network.
So why does the traffic get progressively worse around this period? What can be done to alleviate this problem? And is public transport really the answer when commuters don’t trust it to get them to work on time?
Today, Martin Glynn, the policy director of motoring affairs at the AA, tells Damien why getting from A to B remains so time-consuming in Auckland.
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Host: Damien Venuto
Producers: Shaun D Wilson and Paddy Fox
Executive Producer: Ethan Sills
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