So the big ferry announcement has no firm pricing divulged, passes the terminal infrastructure costs onto the ports authorities (a la 3 Waters), they won't be in service until 2029 (iRex would have been running within the next year or so) and Winston is now quoting the iRex cost as "worst case scenario" $4 billion (to give No Boats Nicola maximum wiggle room to be 'cheaper than iRex'). We can fully expect no rail RORO capability so the redundancy of rail transport will result in increased heavy road transportation of freight so also add the increased roading infrastructure costs onto Nicola's scheme.
This coalition government have burnt far too much political capital for the electorate to believe this smoke and mirrors, hit and hope, attempt at solving the fiasco they've landed us in following the abrupt cancellation of iRex. Once again they're nudging the scheduling of their policies towards the end of this decade when it's looking ever more likely that they will be on the opposition benches.
This coalition government have burnt far too much political capital for the electorate to believe this smoke and mirrors, hit and hope, attempt at solving the fiasco they've landed us in following the abrupt cancellation of iRex. Once again they're nudging the scheduling of their policies towards the end of this decade when it's looking ever more likely that they will be on the opposition benches.