Labour ‘happy to sacrifice lives’

‘Cheap political gamesmanship' from W Murray (The Weekend Sun, October 5) comments on the cancelling of the SH2 project north of Tauranga, saying Simon Bridges and the National Party were alerted to the impending issue over nine years ago yet chose to do nothing about it and 'to now use their failure for such cheap political gamesmanship is inept.”

For W Murray's benefit, the National government and NZTA had already designated the route, purchased land and started the tender process for the Tauranga Northern Link project before the new Labour government instructed the transport agency to halt the project.

Contractors had already started the tendering process when it was pulled, resulting in a significant waste of time, effort and cost, and no action in working towards doing something to stop the constant loss of life on this road.

This is more likely a case of this Labour government playing political games because it was a project championed by National and Simon Bridges, and to support their misguided desire to replace road projects with light rail projects, which are of little value to the country. They seem happy to sacrifice lives for the sake of their own cheap political shots.

B Robertson, Papamoa (Abridged).

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