Under the last Government, they were spending, every year, 40 percent of the transport budget—about $4 billion a year; 40 percent of that—on a handful of hand-picked motorway projects, and the upshot of that was that every other part of the transport system, like road maintenance, was neglected. That's why we've inherited so many potholes on the roads. The councils didn't have enough central government subsidy for local road improvements. Public transport stood still—and, in fact, it went backwards in many areas—under that Government, and, in KiwiRail's words, they were left in a state of "managed decline". The rest of the transport sector was allowed to wither on the vine. 