Larry Williams Drive

Turns out, Wayne Brown is the guy who says one thing before the election and then says something else afterwards. I was a little surprised at the weekend to see Auckland’s mayor has struck a deal with Transport Minister Michael Wood to call a truce on transport, quit the fighting, and let each of them get their pet projects done.  Wayne Brown’s pet project is the Port. He wants to move it, the Government’s not been as keen, but under this truce he’ll be able to work away at that. And what’s Michael Wood’s pet project? Light Rail. Trouble for Wayne is that this is what he said about Light Rail on 16 September: “That’s a project that fails to explain what problem it’s fixing.” “I think the Government will be delighted that I can kill it off.” That’s unequivocal.  He said he was killing off Light Rail and now he’s not doing that. This isn’t a trivial matter, Light Rail is expensive. At last count, it could be headed towards $28 billion dollars. You could build Dunedin’s new hospital twenty times for that amount