Road to perdition

The symbolism was unfortunate. As inflationary nightmares gathered, fit to sweep away the government’s chance of a third term, there was the Prime Minister opening a road that makes it much easier to get the heck out of Wellington.

Timing is so often the enemy of good political intentions, as the somewhat bittersweet launch of Transmission Gully shows. It has been so long in coming, so horrifically expensive and so high-handedly managed by its private-partnership contractors, much due goodwill has long since evaporated.

Jacinda Ardern may privately have preferred to be undergoing a root canal rather than officiating at a celebration of such