Light rail decision coming; Twyford won't discuss cost blowout

Light rail decision coming; Twyford won't discuss cost blowout
Pattrick Smellie
Transport Minister Phil Twyford has confirmed a Cabinet decision on the Auckland light rail project will be made "shortly", countering a suggestion by New Zealand First leader Winston Peters yesterday that the ambitious project had been suspended. However, Twyford dodged questions in Parliament this afternoon from National Party transport spokesman Chris Bishop, who sought confirmation of suggestions the cost of the project was blowing out. Technically two separate projects, the light rail proposal involves a 22-kilometre track from the A...

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