Ryan Bridge: Don't hold your breath for a new Harbour crossing, Auckland

We've been waiting for decades for somebody to build a new bridge, or a tunnel, or anything across Auckland's harbour.

The consultant bill is now $100 million across the current National and former Labour Governments.

Ryan Bridge: Would you pay $9 to cross the harbour bridge?

The answer depends on whether you can afford it. Congestion charging is coming and that'll add to the cost if you need to drive for work.

This is only a proposal-based on the original toll, inflation-adjusted, almost 70 years ago.

Simon O'Connor: Bridging inconsistency

It seems some in society are happy to accept inconsistency based on political preference. Got a far left or progressive cause - then all is well. Have a centre or right wing view, to bad for you.

Consistency. Not the most exciting word in the English dictionary, but an attribute I place a high value on. As some of you may know, philosophy is one of my great loves and I think the merit or otherwise of ideas can often be tested by consistency.

Matua Kahurangi: Mass immigration, double standards, and the Auckland Harbour Bridge excuse

I find it strange that NZ Transport Agency has rejected the anti mass immigration march organised by Brian Tamaki for 31 January, claiming that a march across the Auckland Harbour Bridge could cause serious structural damage. It is a flimsy excuse. More than 200,000 vehicles cross that bridge every day. We have also seen large numbers of people cross it during the Toitū Te Tiriti protests without the sky falling in.

Matua Kahurangi: One rule for hikoi, another for Brian Tamaki

You know what I find genuinely strange in this country? When the hikoi stormed across the Harbour Bridge to protest David Seymour’s Treaty Principles Bill, there didn’t seem to be any consultation, any endless list of hoops to jump through, any talk of “strict criteria”. The organisers basically said, we’re marching across the bridge, the rest of you can get whūkd if you don’t like it. Just like magic, it happened. No bond demanded at the eleventh hour. No threats. No “very high threshold” rhetoric. No police spokesperson clutching their balls about public safety and risk to infrastructure. Just straight on, off you go, kia kaha, block SH1 if you must!

Matua Kahurangi: One rule for some protesters, another for the rest

Authorities shut down the March for New Zealand protest

It seems in New Zealand these days, it’s perfectly fine to protest, so long as your cause is one that officials and the media approve of. If you’re waving a Palestinian flag, blocking streets, or storming through university campuses, you’ll likely be praised for your passion and your right to be heard. But if your protest happens to be about mass immigration, government overreach, or anything that challenges the political narrative, suddenly it’s a problem.

Perspective with Heather du Plessis-Allan: The police did the right thing by agreeing to the bridge march

Weather aside, I actually think police did do the right thing saying yes to that march taking place across the harbour Bridge, which will now not take place tomorrow but at a later date.

My biggest problem with it would be that it would set a precedent, but it's actually not setting a precedent because the precedent was probably already set last year by the anti-Treaty principles Hikoi, which happened in November.

Perspective with Heather du Plessis-Allan: Disrupting people won't make us sympathetic to your cause

I've actually been surprised at the level of anger I've heard expressed today at that Treaty Principles Bill hīkoi crossing over the Harbour Bridge - and I don't think it's a good thing for this particular cause.

Yesterday, completely out of the blue, I got an email from a mum I know complaining about the impact it will l have on kids trying to get to their NCEA exams on time.