Dunne: Why are we (still) waiting?
Ohariu-Belmont MP and United Future leader, Peter Dunne, says the weekend’s weather disaster on the Kapiti coast has
exposed the faulty thinking behind the continued delays in getting the Transmission Gully route out of Wellington
started.
“While the Government continues to play footsie with bicycle-riding, walking Greens over details of land transport
legislation, the nation suffers through the economic disruption caused by the closure of the only major route out of the
capital,” he says.
“Thousands of people had their lives and businesses severely disrupted because some bean-counter somewhere has decided
that Transmission Gully does not meet some abstract cost-benefit analysis.
“Where is the benefit to New Zealand, and what are the costs, of having the capital city isolated through natural and
foreseeable events?” he demanded.
“Transmission Gully is a project that must be fast-tracked immediately – the nation needs it,” says Mr Dunne.