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Date: 2002

From: Walker, Malcolm, 1950- :Digital cartoons

Reference: DCDL-0009316

Description: Shows three representives thinking about Auckland Traffic Planning. The first is representing 'Roading' and thinks of more roads. The second represents 'Urban planning' and thinks of give way signs. While the third and final representative for 'Public Transport' can not think of anything. Refers to the problem of Auckland traffic. See DCDL-0009317 for black and white version. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2014

From: Tremain, Garrick, 1941- :[Digital cartoons published in the Otago Daily Times]

Reference: DCDL-0029867

Description: Cartoon shows Prime Minister John Key directing traffic. Key holds a sign pointing people away from the main highway, and onto another path labelled, 'Flag poll'. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2013

From: Smith, Ashley W, 1948- :[Digital cartoons published in the Shipping Gazette, MG Business, or Presto]

By: New Zealand shipping gazette (Periodical)

Reference: DCDL-0025674

Description: A container ship plunges under the waves. It carries a container with the label 'Nora Hole-borer' and with a large hole in its side. A crew member comments 'Hmmm...and you're quite sure it was switched off?' In July 2013 it was announced that the the worlds 10th largest tunnelling boring machine (TBM) was being shipped to Auckland to construct the city's Waterview Connection tunnels. A naming competition was run among Auckland schools to provide a female name, in informal compliance with maritime custom. 'Nora' did not win - 'Alice' was the name chosen. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2013

From: Nisbet, Alastair, 1958- :Digital cartoons

By: Press (Christchurch, N.Z.)

Reference: DCDL-0025760

Description: Christchurch roads, especially those on lands reverted to swamp, are shown as rough, uneven and the experience of driving them akin to a rollercoaster. As one driver comments 'Woohoo! With Chch roads, who needs the Aussie theme parks!' Since the earthquakes of 2010 and 2011 roads in Christchurch on land prone to liquefaction, are still potholed and needing repair. Driving on them at any speed can resemble a rollercoaster in the Australian theme parks. Many Christchurch inhabitants have travelled there as a respite from local problems. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2013

From: Nisbet, Alastair, 1958- :Digital cartoons

By: Press (Christchurch, N.Z.)

Reference: DCDL-0026181

Description: Three cars are bouncing along a rough Christchurch road, with the drivers, and one dog, leaning out of the car windows in an effort to keep them stable. One driver says 'With Chch roads, we're always in America's Cup mode!' By 17 September 2013 television viewers of the America's Cup races in San Franciso Bay were familiar with the sight of crews leaning over the side of their yachts to avoid capsize. Christchurch drivers were still experiencing the earthquake-damaged and hurriedly repaired roads of the city three years after the earthquakes. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2013

From: Smith, Hayden James, 1976-:[Digital cartoons published in the Otago Daily Times]

By: Otago daily times (Newspaper)

Reference: DCDL-0024383

Description: Shows a car driving past a sign that says road works, and complaining that the sign is misleading because 'that road doesn't work at all!' Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2013

From: Body, Guy Keverne, 1967-: Digital cartoons published in New Zealand Herald

By: New Zealand herald (Newspaper)

Reference: DCDL-0024675

Description: Shows Minister for Transport, Gerry Brownlee, standing next to a diagram showing road congestion in Auckland which spells out the words, 'More trains'. Brownlee says that he hears Auckland's request load and clear, and that he'll make sure they get more roads. Refers to 'The Auckland Plan,' an urban planning project to help alleviate city congestion and traffic. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2013

From: Smith, Ashley W, 1948- :[Digital cartoons published in the Shipping Gazette, MG Business, or Presto]

By: New Zealand shipping gazette (Periodical)

Reference: DCDL-0025516

Description: Shows a group of elderly people trying to prevent a large bulldozer-like machine labelled Kapiti Expressway from mowing them down. Refers to protests by people from Raumati South, who are opposed to a new motorway that veers off State Highway 1 at Raumati, calling it expensive, destructive and unnecessary. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2011

From: Slane, Christopher, 1957-: Digital cartoons published in the Listener, New Zealand Herald, or New Zealand Farmers' Weekly

By: Listener (Periodical)

Reference: DCDL-0018867

Description: Minister of Transport, Stephen Joyce, leans out of the window of a car that is being driven by Minister for the Rugby World Cup across the 'buck-passing lane' that has been built above the 'Veolia RWC Express'. The train is crammed and quite overloaded with people trying to get to a rugby match. Stephen Joyce says 'Don't worry we can fix this with more money for roads'. Context: The transport and overcrowding problems during the Rugby World Cup opening in Auckland caused some considerable embarrassment. Around 2000 fans missed the opening ceremony or whole match between Tonga and New Zealand at Eden Park, after trains came to a standstill on parts of the network and ferries were cancelled into the city because of large crowds blocking the terminal at Queen's Wharf. The cartoon suggests that the government thinks it will be able to buy people's good will by building more roads. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2011

From: Walker, Malcolm, 1950- :Digital cartoons

By: Dominion post (Newspaper)

Reference: DCDL-0018565

Description: The cartoon shows Steven Joyce, Minister of Transport, wearing dark glasses with the centrelines of a road reflected in them. He is reading a magazine called 'Freeways, Flyovers & Foot to the Floor' and says 'The only way to get the traffic off our roads is to build new ones..' Context: Mr Joyce told the New Zealand Contractors' Federation/Association of Consulting Engineers NZ joint conference in Rotorua today (4th Aug) that, in the future, the ongoing investment in infrastructure in the face of economic difficulties would be seen as one of the major achievements of this Government.: Mr Joyce said that investment in roading was vital, with $35bn earmarked for land transport - both state highways and local roads - over the next 10 years. (Scoop - 4 Aug 2011) Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2012

From: Smith, Ashley W, 1948- :[Digital cartoons published in the Shipping Gazette, MG Business, or Presto]

By: New Zealand shipping gazette (Periodical)

Reference: DCDL-0021560

Description: The Rimutaka Hill Road is represented as a winding track running over the caricatured features of Robert Muldoon. Muldoon's Corner is sign-posted. A construction worker remarks 'Once that's done there's a wide, slippery bit we could look at...' Below him is another sign-post labelled 'Key's Mile'. The cartoon is titled 'News: State Highway 2 over the Rimutakas is being made safer'. Muldoon's Corner, not named after Sir Robert Muldoon, is one of the dangerous bends. 'Key's Mile', an invented name, refers to John Key's reputation for slipperiness, as well as to his habitual grin. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2012

From: Hubbard, James, 1949-: Digital caricatures and cartoons

By: Setford News Photo Agency

Reference: DCDL-0022424

Description: Shows a rich man in his fancy car driving along a road for which the taxpayer has paid. Text reads 'Roading consultants paid '$200m for work on 5 of 7 roads of "National significance"...news.' Context: About $200 million has been paid to transport consultants for work on five of the seven roads of national significance since 2009. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2012

From: Fletcher, David, 1952- :Digital cartoons

By: Dominion post (Newspaper)

Reference: DCDL-0022555

Description: 'The Politician' cartoon strip. A man brings a phone to a colleague and tells him that the minister wants him to release more funds for road maintenance. The other man asks where the minister is calling from, and the response is 'the bottom of a pothole.' Context: The Transport Agency issued an operating budget with a 2.3%, below-inflation increase in maintenance funding for roads for the next three years. (New Zealand Herald, 5 June 2012) Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2012

From: Fletcher, David, 1952- :Digital cartoons

By: Dominion post (Newspaper)

Reference: DCDL-0022754

Description: 'The Politician' cartoon strip. When a reporter asks the politician whether he still intends to go ahead with the new holiday highway the politician denies that it is a holiday highway and says that it will go to his bach. Context: An Auckland economist says scrapping the unnecessary Puhoi to Wellsford holiday highway and using the interest alone on the $8 billion price tag to help poor New Zealand communities could pluck 100,000 children out of poverty forever. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2012

From: Smith, Hayden James, 1976-:[Digital cartoons published in the Otago Daily Times]

By: Otago daily times (Newspaper)

Reference: DCDL-0022938

Description: Shows motorist stopping to ask road workers about filling in potholes on John Wilson Ocean Drive. Worker replies they thought they couldnt' afford to fill in potholes until they remembered they had the truck and crane. Context: John Wilson Ocean Drive in Dunedin is to be reopened to cars at certain times of the day and resealed by the end of 2012 (Otago Daily Times 10 Sept 2012). Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2012

From: Clark, Laurence, 1949- :Digital cartoons

By: Northern advocate (Newspaper)

Reference: DCDL-0021045

Description: The cartoon shows a bulldozer labelled NZTA attacking a tree stump in Mander Park, Whangarei. A chainsaw sits on the stump. The New Zealand Transport Authority was having 11 heritage trees in Maunder Park removed to make way for road widening and intersection upgrades. Protesters attemped to prevent it happening. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2014

From: Hubbard, James, 1949-: Digital caricatures and cartoons

Reference: DCDL-0028644

Description: Shows John Key and Gerry Brownlee on a flying pig (Regional Roading Spendup). Key says "Honestly, it's all essential spending, not pork barrel politics!". Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2014

From: Evans, Malcolm Paul, 1945- :Digital cartoons

Reference: DCDL-0028619

Description: Shows a New Zealand family on their verandah reading a newspaper about the 2014 Election. The father says "If we vote for the Nats they promise to build lots of new roads!". The mother says "Great! - We'll use them to drive past the state assets they sold to pay for them!". Their son adds "When we get a car!". Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2014

From: Nisbet, Alastair, 1958- :Digital cartoons

Reference: DCDL-0028657

Description: Shows a mule (Chch residents) carrying on its back a large amount of baggage - Petrol Hike, Sthern Response, Roads, Insurance hassles, Stress, Interest rates, Rebuilds, Repairs, Floods - on which 'Rates rise' has been added. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2014

From: Fletcher, David, 1952- :Digital cartoons

Reference: DCDL-0028724

Description: Jim informs the MP for Upper Creek that people on the East Coast are asking him to build a new highway to their part of the country, and want him to come attend one of their meetings. The MP replies, "ARE THEY CRAZY?!! It would take me forever to drive out there!" Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).