To the Press immediate release. - 5th November 2016.

Immediate press release statement from Ken Crispin as the co-organiser of the Tairawhiti Rail Forum being held 7th November 2016.

The “Tairawhiti/Gisborne Rail Forum” event must consider issues for re-instatement of the rail service at this event in Gisborne.

As we prepare on Monday 7th November 2016 for the Gisborne Rail Forum, there is one single question that needs to be considered in the minds of those attending the forum and the NZ public & Politician alike.

“If after four years we have successfully got the rail services saved on the 178 kms from Napier to Wairoa, so would you want to see it re-opened the short 44kms to Gisborne to allow Gisborne to be re-connected to the national rail network?”

This has been the single focus of this continued effort to hold this “Tairawhiti Rail Forum” and must be a consideration that we collectively will send to Parliament following this most important Forum held in Gisborne 7th November 2016.

This question will be strongly put to all candidates during the next General Election in 2017 and may decide National Government hold the HB/Gisborne Seats or not.

If I was a National MP I would err on the side of caution about why Gisborne as the most isolated city of its size and commerce in Aotearoa/NZ is the only location that will be left without aa alternative land transport option of rail service for Gisborne’s safety and security and future prosperity that may suffer again as seen during the 1987 disasterous era when the Rogernomics & Ruthinasia era’s almost destroyed the Gisborne economy & farming community, as Bernard Hickey put it clearly in his Historic look back to this era; Quote Bernard Hickey

“Many broke up and even now the second and third waves of poverty that sprung from those young families of the late 1980s and early 1990s are washing through the social welfare system” http://www.interest.co.nz/opinion/69087/bernard-hickey-looks-how-generations-and-after-rogernomics-and-ruthanasia-revolutions

Does the National Government want this repeated destruction of the Gisborne economic poverty that sprung from those young families of the late 1980s and early 1990s are washing through the social welfare system?

This may decide the outcome of the next election in 2017 as National may loose the Gisborne and HB Tuki Tuki seats over this loss of rail as several Polls have demonstrated over 70% want rail services returned.

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