Media release

Auckland Councillor Cameron Brewer

Thursday 20 June 2013

Council vote suggests Labour should rethink its “holiday highway” bashing

Auckland Councillor Cameron Brewer says Labour and the Greens are increasingly out of step when it comes to their on-going opposition to the proposed Puhoi to Wellsford roading project, and today’s council vote was more proof that opposition parties are on the wrong side of the public debate.

“The fact that 16 members of the council’s Regional Development & Operations Committee today voted to support the proposed Puhoi to Warkworth component of the project being confirmed as a Road Of National Significance and that it be referred to a Board of Inquiry shows that opposition parties need to rethink their position of scrapping the billion-dollar plus roading project.

“Labour and the Greens keep bashing this project despite all the extra economic opportunity it will create for the likes of Northland. Given an overwhelming majority of left and right Auckland councillors today got in behind advancing the project as a Road Of National Significance and to waste no time doing so, I call on the opposition parties in Wellington to revise their position on this key piece of infrastructure ahead of next year’s general election,” says Mr Brewer.

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