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Christmas has come early for some residents of Napier and Gisborne.
I notice that work towards the realignment of the Matahorua Gorge between Napier and Gisborne commenced today.
That’s nine months earlier than originally scheduled - thanks to an additional $142.5 million in funding announced in February as part of the government’s “Jobs and Growth Plan.”
An elated Transport Minister Steven Joyce says the work will come as a relief to those who travel the section of State Highway 2.
I’m sure it will and good for them. Everyone deserves a nice Christmas gift.
But how do we persuade Santa that our electric rail funding present is not nine months ahead of schedule but way long overdue?
Or have we just been too naughty this year to deserve presents?
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*Christmas at the ARC*
Mike Lee:It’s from Steve Joyce i wonder what is *unwraps gift* a big truck and a note “Here’s a big truck of which your ratepayers will pay for their damaged on Auckland’s local roads and no I’m not giving you any more money for your damn trains. Ho Ho Ho Ho Merry Slavemas ARC”
We are getting a lump of coal… Which will come in handy when Joyce announcing we are getting steam trains to replace our ageing diesels due to “cost overruns”…
(That’s cost overruns of state highway projects mind you)