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Download AudioTransport Minister Michael Wood is hailing a Manukau Urban Māori Authority’s Waka Aronui scheme to get low income whanau into low emission vehicles.
MUMA has teamed up with the Akina Foundation and Toyota to offer Toyota hybrids on a three-year lease for $95 a week.
That figure also covers maintenance and tyres.
Launching Waka Aronui at Ngā Whare Waatea Marae in Mangere this morning, Mr Wood says it’s the sort of model the Government is keen to encourage.
“The reason we’ve set up the social leasing scheme through the Climate Emergency Response Fund as a pilot is we want to be innovative about this, we want to work with community organisations, we want to look at different models. For example, this model is largely a one- family, one vehicle model. It has been proposed by some people that there might be models whereby a small pool of vehicles might be attached to a community and it might be more of a shared access model. So we will work through all those options to provide solutions that will work for different communities,” he says.
Minister Wood says Māngere and other parts of South Auckland are effectively cut off from mass transit systems, individual vehicle ownership is the only viable option for many families.
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