Dunne: Act flip-flop on Transmission Gully

Act has totally flip-flopped on Transmission Gully with its Wellington Central candidate now saying the party is opposed to it, UnitedFuture leader and Ohariu MP Peter Dunne said today.

"This now makes a vote for UnitedFuture even more vital for any Wellingtonian wanting to make sure the road goes ahead," Mr Dunne said.

"We have had communication from appalled Act members today saying they are switching parties on this issue, it is that fundamental to Wellington's long term transport viability," he said.

Act candidate Stephen Whittington today described Transmission Gully as a waste of money. As recently as September Act was in full support of the alternative access route in and out of Wellington.

"UnitedFuture says Transmission Gully is absolutely vital to Wellington, and through pushing it, and having made it a confidence and supply agreement issue with the last two governments, we now have it on the point of being delivered.

"The current Government rightly designated it a Road of National Significance and construction is now likely to begin by late 2015.

"Basically, with UnitedFuture backing a John Key-leg government, it will happen. Act are now telling us they will oppose it.

"Wellington voters now know that a vote for Act is a vote for decades of increasing commuter log-jams in the capital, and a short-sighted crippling of the Wellington region," Mr Dunne said.

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