Council decides future for eastern transport corridor

Auckland City’s council agreed the future direction of the eastern transport corridor at its meeting tonight.

The council has agreed a new brief for the transport corridor including: removing the roading component between the CBD and Glen Innes and developing the passenger transport components protecting the existing designations to retain the land for long term interests of the city investigating local road improvements in the south-eastern suburbs of the city (including Glen Innes, Panmure and Mt Wellington) to improve connections with State Highway 1 and the North Island Main Trunk Line confirming funding requirements and sources involving the Auckland Regional Transport Authority (ARTA) to lead passenger transport initiatives developing a new memorandum of understanding between Transit New Zealand, Manukau city and Auckland city councils and ARTA.

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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>>