Dr Benno Blaschke: When infrastructure becomes an excuse

Auckland is deciding where the next generation of homes will go. Plan Change 120 is a proposal to rewrite the city’s planning rules. It would concentrate new housing near train stations and town centres. Further submissions open later this month.

The outcome will shape whether the next generation can afford to live in the city where they grew up.

Bryce Edwards: Ferries, infrastructure, and the year in politics

Political commentators and journalists are dismayed by what has happened to the Kiwirail Interislander ferry upgrade project. Ever since the bombshell dropped on Wednesday that the new Government was essentially cancelling the funding of the “mega ferries”, there has been some hard-hitting analysis and blame published.