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[wizard of Tauranga]

Someone’s favourite journalist Anne Salmond referring to the regional council changes as under

Exposed herself well and truely as a pro left hypocrite.. The reformed are a copy of the lefts 3 waters amalgamation in principle that she championed but done in a much more democratic way.

 

[John Nick]

Someone’s favourite journalist Anne Salmond referring to the regional council changes as under

Exposed herself well and truely as a pro left hypocrite.. The reformed are a copy of the lefts 3 waters amalgamation in principle that she championed but done in a much more democratic way.

What do you think about these changes have here in Tauranga Wiz. Given that we have Mahe as our Mayor and he has plenty of critics already.

 

[Lord Gnome of Mooloolaba]

I worked on this project and can tell that that the current costs, including the cancellation costs for 3 contractors and the ship builders, is way more than the $4b the previous scheme had blown out to and it will provide inferior ferries and inferior port side facilities.

Just on this - I wrote a report in about 2021 where I said that KiwiRail had been hugely optimistic in their quantitative R&O for the port-side infrastructure costs.

You can OIA it but it got very watered down by the MoT before it got to the 2 ministers.

N.B., it would still have been a better outcome with all the blow-outs than the current government's debacle - better facilities and ships, at a lower total costs - but it doesn't excuse the incompetence of KiwiRail and the negligence of the MoT.

The MoT should take a lot of the blame for the Irex and Auckland light rail cock ups.