In other interesting news, Auckland has now almost completed its rail loop, so we can now get round the larger metropolitan area south of the Harbour Bridge by train and north of the Harbour Bridge by dedicated bus lanes beside the motorway.
Now, ATEED is being run a fellow familiar with V8 Supercars by the name of Michael Redman - the very man who pushed to get the V8 Supercars to Hamilton.
A recent urgent meeting secured ATEED a peculiarly odd sum of millions to invest in securing events for the region. I wonder if Shane Howard has paid him a visit prior to or post wet-fishing the Hamilton City Council. Oh to have seen the look on Mayor
Julie Hardaker's face. Now she has to justify a huge asset write-down to people of Hamilton if the race is relocated to Auckland or Wellington.
Auckland and Wellington both have the corporate support and the accommodation space to house everyone....and Auckland NEEDS something after the RWC sails out of town. Wellington has a Green Party mayor, so the very best of luck to them.....chances are mininal in the capital!