7 April 2004

Technical work underway on staging Corridor

Giving Aucklanders some certainty on the Eastern Transport Corridor is the number one priority in taking the project forward, Mayors John Banks and Sir Barry Curtis said today.

“We want the overall route locked down by mid-year,” they said following today’s meeting of the Eastern Transport Corridor Steering Group.

The two mayors also supported an immediate start on technical work around how the project can be completed in stages.

Once the overall route has been locked down, and there’s a strategy to complete the project in stages, Aucklanders will have certainty about the future, both short-term and long-term in respect of the corridor.

A report recommending a firm route alignment, staging and related issues of property, funding and consent is due to go forward from the steering group to respective councils and the Transit New Zealand Board late next month.

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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>>