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Dave Macpherson's avatar

Excellent comments Darren, particularly those about KiwiRail (a conflicted organisation, if ever I saw one) and the failure to consider Te Wai Pounamu. Perhaps it should have been called The North Island Inter-regional Rail Inquiry?

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Andrew Riddell's avatar

Yeah, only one paragraph that I could find on rail in the South Island. And that was about needing to look at passenger rail potential there. I am sure that the Select Committee got plenty about South Island passenger rail potential from the submissions.

National and ACT did not put up a robust case against passenger rail - just some misrepresentation of Te Huia and 'subsidies' (ignoring the massive subsidies for road transport and that fare recovery on Te Huia is almost double what was expected), and an "oh look, buses".

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