What do we do?

[Zurdo]

In the mid 70s I used to work on the railways, passenger trains up and down the country, freight trains galore, not a lot of heavy trucks on the roads causing havoc and chewing up the roads creating potholes etc. Not saying its all the trucks fault but when I started with rail there were at least 40,000 people working and when I left there were just over 4000 so the balance of freight had to go somewhere and that somewhere is on our roads.

Talking to an uncle at his 80th last weekend - he said when he was young, he had a choice of 5 trains to take him to Auckland, probably from Hamilton where his parents lived. Now he has one, and before Te Huia, none. I remember going to the train station to pick up relatives.