Roger Childs: An appropriate name for the Transmission Gully Motorway?

The obsession with giving government departments, new buildings and now highways te reo names continues.

The latest to have a name “gifted” to it, is the long awaited but recently opened Transmission Gully motorway linking the Kapiti Coast with the Tawa Valley. But is anyone actually going to call it by the new Maori name?

Which way are you driving to Wellington?

I’ll save time if I go via Te Ara Nui o Te Rangihaeata.

What’s that?

Mike Hosking: A sobering week of reminders of how far we've fallen behind

Have a look at the new bridge in Turkey that opened this week. It's the world's longest suspension bridge and it's spectacular.

They claim it will generate twice what it cost in economic returns. It produced 118,000 jobs.

What stands out about it for me is not just the fact it's spectacular, but the fact that Turkey did it. They're not really one of the planet's great economic powerhouses.

And this week here, that dreadful report that reminds us yet again that when it comes to things like infrastructure, we are hopeless.