Responding
to New Zealand First’s transport policy
announcement, of diverting $300 million from regional
road projects to support Auckland’s City Rail Link and the
troubled Napier-Gisborne rail line, Taxpayers’ Union
Executive Director Jordan Williams says:
“Taxpayers have
paid enough for rail already. Since 2008 it has cost every
New Zealander the equivalent of a return airfare to London.
If ideas like Mr Peters’ took hold we may well soon be
paying the equivalent of sending Kiwis to the
moon.”
“Winston Peters says that his party is
interested in investing in the regions and regional
development, yet his policy would divert funding from
several regional road projects towards his pork barrel
promises.”
“Rail has been a huge drain the
taxpayers’ since it was renationalised in 2008, but here
is yet another politician eager to throw even more money
after
bad.”
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