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27 February 2004

Work on SH1 from Longswamp to Rangiriri in the Waikato approved

Transfund New Zealand has approved funding for work to reduce fatalities and improve travel on State Highway 1 between Longswamp and Rangiriri in the Waikato.

Transfund agreed yesterday to fund the project at a cost of nearly $6 million. The project comprises building a wire rope median barrier, road widening and adding passing lanes.

Board chair Jan Wright says the project will reduce fatal crashes along this section of highway.

Transfund and the Waikato local authorities support this interim safety measure until the road can be upgraded to four lanes as part of the Waikato expressway, 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>>