Point of Order: Buzz from the Beehive - 7/8/23

We know where to go for bridging finance, but what about tunnelling finance when you are digging for up to $45 billion?

You can learn from the government’s official website today how ministers intend spending- or misspending – our money.

They are talking about spending it on building two new three-lane road tunnels under the Waitemata Harbour.

Mike Butler: A new look at old roads, bridges, swamps

The biggest story of 19th century New Zealand is not missionaries, muskets, and the sovereignty wars, according to historian John McLean, it was the physical building of the country.

Sweat and toil – the building of New Zealand, tells the story of the building of New Zealand’s roads, bridges, railways, tunnels, viaducts, wharves, docks, lighthouses, tramways, telegraph, as well as massive reclamations as well as the draining of swamps.

Mclean did his Master’s thesis in history on the building of the Otira tunnel through the Southern Alps.