ELECTION 2020: National rolls out plan for $31b superhighway

ELECTION 2020: National rolls out plan for $31b superhighway
Brent Melville
A National-led government will spend $31 billion over the next decade on a four-lane expressway connecting the upper North Island, complete Auckland's rapid transit, fast-track construction of a tunnel across the Waitemata Harbour and expand the city's ferry network, says leader Judith Collins. Unveiling the ambitious three-part transport plan in Auckland this morning, Collins said her party plans to repeal and replace the Resource Management Act with an environment standards law, to set environmental "bottom lines," and an urban planning an...

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