$28b for Auckland's transport future - analysis

The government's $28 billion transport plan for Auckland is being described as transformational, lacking in ambition, and a copy of the previous government's plans. The ten-year Auckland Transport Alignment Project will build light rail, roads and cycle lanes, and upgrade heavy rail and buses. And Auckland people will have to pay for some of it. A new road linking the Whangaparaoa Peninsula and the Northern Motorway will be a toll road, and the government expects to raise $1.5 billion over the next ten years from a regional fuel tax. Matt Lowrie is the editor of the transport blog Greater Auckland, and Steven Selwood is the chief executive of Infrastructure New Zealand. They discuss the policy with Guyon Espiner.