The Daily Blog Open Mic – Friday 24th March 2017
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And so it comes to pass – yet more short termism
Auckland to get light rail! And Auckland will wonder why Tauranga becomes the preferred port, why trucks will pave the roadways for the next twenty years, and why living will remain expensive.
Nothing’s really changed in many ways since Sir Dove Meyer Robinson advocated viable public transport options.
Auckland’s powers that be (including the trendy Transport Blog) seem to have forgotten that AKL airport isn’t just Auckland’s, but the region’s – and even adjacent regions.
And it’s not as though it’d be that hard to push through from either/or both of two points.
Well, let ’em go the light rail option, and then in a few years wonder why they’ve become irrelevant in terms of a productive NuZull