Introduction

National's new $24 billion roading election proposal promises four-lane highways between Todong and Fungare, a $5 billion public transport plan in Auckland. It wants to dump Let's Get Wellington Moving and fast-track the capital's second Mount Vic Tunnel. Leader Christopher Luxon went all the way back to the 1960s for inspiration when he was questioned on the timetable. But even before that policy was unveiled, TV and Z's political editor Jessica Mutch MacKay was telling viewers these cost estimates are too low.