Mike Lee has a new blog as part of his campaign to win the Gulf & Waitemata seat on the Auckland Council. He has a great post on the cheek of Steven Joyce criticising Auckland mayoral candidates for pushing pet rail projects when he is imposing his own Holiday Highway folly on Aucklanders at a cost of a cool $2 billion. Exactly what I was thinking!
You can also find a presentation Mike gave earlier this year called Sins of the Fathers – The Decline and Rise of Rail Transit in Auckland. And a speech on Auckland’s local government history that Mike delivered as the Bruce Jesson lecture a few years back. Both essential background to the current debates on Auckland.
Mike is a champion. He has done more than almost anyone I can think of to promote the necessary revitalisation of public transport in Auckland. Along with Bruce Jesson and others he saved the Ports from being sold off in the nineties. Under his leadership the ARC has expanded its superb network of parks. His submissions to the Royal Commission and two select committees on the future of Auckland governance have been in my opinion among the smartest and soundest.
Go Mikey!
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Oh man, I’ve just been to another blog where they have a floating gold fish emoticon
Mike Lee has get more tangible results and done more for PT in Auckland than any other politician since 1955…
He MUST get onto the new council…