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Scoop Coverage: Waterview Motorway Announcement
Gordon Campbell: The Public Face Of The
National Party
Last night, Lee’s stigmatizing of south Auckland as a criminal zone was bad enough. The thought that the fabulously expensive Waterview Connection roading project might be able to prevent the dark hordes from Otara descending on the decent tree-lined streets of Mt Albert was even worse, and an interesting example though, of a certain style of politics in action. More >>
Roads: Waterview - Couldn't Escape If It
Wanted To
The Government’s decision to complete
the Waterview Connection apparently with a surface motorway
and only minor levels of undergrounding shows a staggering
level of contempt for residents in the community, says
Labour transport spokesperson Darren Hughes. More
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ALSO:
- NZ Transport Agency - NZTA 's preferred option for Western Ring Route
- NZ Transport Agency - Waterview option presentation [PDF]
- NZ Govt - Waterview decision well-considered, balanced
- Labour - Aucklanders face skyrocketing water rates
- Labour - Waterview Decision Shows Contempt For People Of Mt Albert
- Labour - Dumping Waterview tunnel huge blow for community
- NZ Council for Infrastructure Development - Waterview - Good for locals as well as the country
- EMA - Waterview surface option balanced, reasonable
- Auckland Business Forum - SH20: Waterview Connection By 2015 – On Track!
- Roading NZ - New Waterview Option Better for Contractors
- TV3 Video - Debate held over Government's Waterview Motorway plans
- TV3 Video - Motorway decision upsets Waterview and Mt Albert residents
- TV3 Video - Residents' lives in limbo following motorway announcement
Scoop Audio: PMs Press Conference - The
Waterview Preference
Audio on Demand of NZ Prime
Minister John Key's regular post-cabinet press conference.
The PM wouldn’t be drawn on whether his Government
preferred an above, or below ground option for Auckland's
Waterview Motorway. More
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ALSO:
- Business.Scoop - Waterview tunnel too expensive, says Joyce
- NZ Govt - Affordable options available for Waterview
- Labour - Lee happy about six-lane motorway in Mt Albert
- Labour - National: Second-best good enough for Mt Albert
- Labour - Nats confirm preference for above ground motorway
- Greens - National’s bulldozers at the gate of Mt Albert
- Greens - Ramming motorway through Mt Albert unacceptable
- ACT - Mt Albert A Two Horse Race
- Automobile Association - Toll-free Western Ring Route Good For Motorists
- Scoop Audio - 95bFM: Kim Choe – The Fight For Mt Albert
- TV3 Video - Mt Albert houses to go to make way for motorway
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