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Old 17th March 2009, 15:24     #46
Hory
 
You seem to conflating funding of all transport projects with this special regional tax which was meant to allow regional councils to set their own petrol taxes for special projects in their region.
By nationalising the tax this takes control of these projects away from regional government and back to central government.

Based on the history of NZ transport funding I doubt that central government in Wellington is going to have the same concern about Auckland's transport network than the regional government in Auckland.
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