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Todd Niall05:00, Apr 30 2021
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Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, flanked by Deputy Prime Minister Winston Peters and Finance Minister Grant Robertson, announces a $12 billion infrastructure package (Video first published January 2020).
Billions of dollars of government-promoted transport projects in Auckland are legally untouchable, despite public submissions currently being sought on the city’s ten-year transport plan. The Auckland Transport-led Regional Transport Committee has been given legal advice that its ability to make changes to the proposed blueprint of spending, stops short of purely government-funded projects. These included the controversial Mill Road highway south of the city, and the Penlink connection onto the Whangaparaoa Peninsula, funded by the government’s New Zealand Upgrade Programme.
Wednesday, 28 April 2021, 3:22 pm
Labour walking back its commitment to transport projects
across the country is further proof it will say anything to
get elected, but won’t actually deliver it, National’s
Transport spokesperson Michael Woodhouse says.
Labour
announced a number of transport projects as part of the New
Zealand Upgrade Programme, many of these were roading
projects progressed by the previous National Government but
canned by Labour who then recommitted to them last
year.
“First it was, KiwiBuild, then it was Light
Rail, then it was a commitment to reduce Child Poverty,
followed by a point blank refusal to extend the bright-line