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Matthew Birchall: We need a user-pays model to fund transport infrastructure
OPINION: Distance-based charging for vehicles should be considered as one funding option.
Simon Wilson: Politicians must agree to agree if we're going to get things built
OPINION: The big challenge for long-term planning: politicians must agree to agree.
Millions needed for fix: Marlborough town at great risk if stopbanks fail
Risk to human life means $9 million repairs are necessary, says councillor.
'World's most predictable problem': SH1 Brynderwyns closure angers truckies
A group representing NZ trucking firms is calling for long-term transport planning.
Govt defends new consenting bill, after Labour slams it as ‘Muldoonist’
Bill would create a process that allows ministers to approve projects.
Billions short each year: NZTA Waka Kotahi warns it will spend twice its funding
Agency concedes many of its projects will be deferred or delayed.
Questions around commercial viability could jeopardise future of Napier-Wairoa rail line
The line was damaged in Cyclone Gabrielle, so is it worth rebuilding?
‘A disease’: NZ’s broken infrastructure likely to trudge into the future
There has been an abject lack of long-term planning for decades.
Passenger hits out at Govt's decision to can Cook Strait ferries
"What is the Government waiting for? An actual disaster where people lose their lives?"
Luxon says Cyclone Gabrielle-hit zones 'not forgotten', SH2 'in really bad shape'
The PM is in Cyclone Gabrielle-hit Wairoa in a change from his duties this week.
'Cheap politics': Labour fires back at Nicola Willis over ferry budget blowout
Labour finance spokesman Grant Robertson sheds more light on KiwiRail's ferry conundrum.
'Nigh-on impossible': Housing development for 15000 people stalls
Delay may cost ratepayers millions with $300m needed for roads, pipes.
Wellington landmark at risk of demolition due to rising costs, climate change
But locals would like popular quake-damaged wharf kept for heritage value.
Wellington Water under fire for 'abysmal' job replacing pipes
The organisation was aiming to replace 100km of pipes in a year, but had managed only 18
Infrastructure crunch: Local knowledge crucial, new report says
The travails of Muldoon need not cause us contemporary gloom, a think-tank says.
Rob Campbell: Nation building that lacks this base is fatally flawed
OPINION: Politicians agree we need 'infrastructure' but what of sustainability?
Infrastructure Report: A billion-dollar plan to build resilience
Damage from the cyclone and floods has been estimated to cost up to $14.5b.
Brett O’Riley: Time to set new infrastructure priorities
We have to be pragmatic and realistic, and open our doors to overseas funding.
Politics stymieing key transport projects, says new infrastructure boss
Infrastructure boss believes politicking is getting in the road of important development.
Opinion: The long arm and tail-sting of Cyclone Gabrielle
OPINION: Most of us take comfort knowing that it is someone else’s responsibility to fix.
Infrastructure Report: Communications restored but not back to normal
Restoring stable networks will be an expensive and radical undertaking.
Opinion: Filling NZ’s $210b infrastructure deficit black hole
The Government doesn’t have deep-enough pockets to fill the infrastructure black hole.
OPINION: The climate challenge is an opportunity
OPINION: We can’t look to last century’s plans.
Auckland Light Rail shifts up a gear
ALR will help underpin growth, greater productivity and economic prosperity.
Infrastructure Report: Chris Hipkins on Govt's plan to rebuild key infrastructure
Opinion: NZ needs to commit to a longer pipeline of major infrastructure projects.
Infrastructure Report: Future-proofing Auckland Airport
The airport is developing with an eye to the longer-term.
Adrienne Miller: Housing trick is in the mix
OPINION: Building up and building out should both be possible.