Graham Sinclair is quite correct when he says that the Councils and Kiwirail need to team up and trail a passenger service between Auckland and Mt Maunganui and some stops in between. These organisations need to think outside the square - e.g. combine a passenger carriage with the freight service. Trial a couple of times a week service instead of a seven day service; trial connecting up at Frankton with a train from Hamilton.
Kiwirail is in the financial ‘dodo' because management/government/councils are not listening to the market/shareholders/taxpayers. Kiwirail adopts the wrong ‘do'. A paradigm shift is what is needed - change from ‘kan't do' to ‘Kiwirail kan do'.

Jenny & Michael Grose, Te Puna.