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27 February 2004

Funding approved for Mackays Crossing overbridge on SH1

Delays and traffic crashes on State Highway 1 north of Wellington will be reduced with the go-ahead by Transfund New Zealand to build a four-lane overbridge at Mackays Crossing.

The Transfund board agreed yesterday to fund the project at a total cost of $17 million. The project comprises construction of a four-lane bridge over the railway line, improved road alignment and improved access to Queen Elizabeth Park.

Board chair Jan Wright says the Transit project, which separates traffic on the state highway from the main trunk railway, makes both networks safer and more efficient.

It also will ensure SH1 is compatible with potential development of Transmission Gully and has minimal impact on the nearby wetland areas, Dr Wright says.

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Gordon Campbell: On the Sony cyber attack

Given the layers of meta-irony involved, the saga of the Sony cyber attack seemed at the outset more like a snarky European art film than a popcorn entry at the multiplex.

Yet now with (a) President Barack Obama weighing in on the side of artistic freedom and calling for the US to make a ‘proportionate response’quickly followed by (b) North Korea’s entire Internet service going down, and with both these events being followed by (c) Sony deciding to backtrack and release The Interview film that had made it a target for the dastardly North Koreans in the first place, then ay caramba…the whole world will now be watching how this affair pans out. More>>