22 Dec 2014

The Panel with Nevil Gibson and Bernard Hickey. (Part 1)

From The Panel, 4:07 pm on 22 December 2014

It may be Steven Joyce's very last option, "U know we haven't even thought about that yet", but some public funding of the new SkyCity National Convention Centre looks likely according to AUT tourism Professor Simon Milne. SkyCity's Nigel Morrison says construction costs have risen and the Government will need to help plug the funding gap. The new drink-drive limits are catching dozens of drivers, but how fair is it when they've caught a taxi or got a lift home the night before, but are nabbed on their way to work the next day? The Chicago Tribune newspaper has released the results of a study it commissioned whether red light cameras reduce injuries on the road. They do reduce the risk of your being broadsided, but rear-end crashes resulting in injuries went up 22 percent.