Kate Hawkesby: $880 million is too much money to not account for landslides

No one is more beside themselves about the Puhoi Motorway schemozzle than me.

Well, to be fair there are probably people more upset than me, but I’m pretty upset.

I mean, finally, finally after so long, such an interminable wait, finally we got our glorious smooth new road North. The gateway to the winterless North, bypassing all the windy roads and single lane hills and crappy old tar seal.

Kate Hawkesby: We need to build more roads

I’ve decided we need to build more roads.

I don’t know why we don’t just build roads everywhere all the time. The most transformational thing this government –who said they’d be transformational– could have done was build more roads. I don’t know why they hate them so much and cancelled so many of them.

Mike Hosking: We love roads, so let's get on with building them

I know if you are south of Auckland, you might not care.

But yet again Friday and over the weekend we were reminded of the value of roads, new roads, good roads, and roads that add to the value of the country and economy.

The Puhoi motorway extension was opened, ironically by the Prime Minister, who had the good grace to admit calling it the holiday highway had been a mistake.