Ends Up, Wayne Brown is the man who states something prior to the election and after that states something else later on.
I was a little stunned at the weekend to see Auckland’s mayor h as struck a handle Transportation Minister Michael Wood to call a truce on transportation, stopped the combating, and let each of them get their pet jobs done.
Wayne Brown’s family pet task is the Port. He wishes to move it, the Federal government’s not been as eager, however under this truce he’ll have the ability to work away at that.
And what’s Michael Wood’s family pet task? Light Rail.
Difficulty for Wayne is that this is what he stated about Light Rail on 16 September:
” That’s a job that stops working to describe what issue it’s repairing.”
” I believe the Federal government will be happy that I can eliminate it off.”
That’s unquestionable. He stated he was exterminating Light Rail and now he’s not doing that.
This isn’t an insignificant matter, Light Rail is costly. At last count, it might be headed towards $28 billion dollars. You might develop Dunedin’s brand-new health center twenty times for that quantity of cash.
And it’s a dog. It’s not completely underground like it must be, it’s not headed to West Auckland where your houses resemble it must be, it’s not even on the ideal type of tracks to hook up with our existing trains and the brand-new trains entering the loop under the city.
I’m not a moron. I understand politics has to do with tradeoffs. If you’re going to do offers, you do not desire to be the man who has to consume dirt to make the offer. And he simply did.
He broke his word and offered the Federal government successfully consent to keep squandering millions on specialists for a job we may simply abort at the next election.
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