Let's Get Wellington Moving is dead: long live the second Mt Vic Tunnel

Let's Get Wellington Moving is dead: long live the second Mt Vic Tunnel
Using Wellington's harbour quays for bus lanes remains part of the new agreed plan (Image: LGWM)
Pattrick Smellie
Wellington will get a second Mt Victoria tunnel, fully government-funded, as part of the cancellation of the troubled Let’s Get Wellington Moving transport initiative.Agreement to “dissolve” the $7.4 billion urban transport initiative known as LGWM started by the previous government was announced in a joint statement from infrastructure and housing and transport ministers Chris Bishop and Simeon Brown, Wellington mayor Tory Whanau, and Greater Wellington regional council chair Daran Ponter.The announcement is the second multi-...

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