Carrying banners reading "Rail Against The Expressway", "Riding Rough Shot Over Kapiti'' and "We can smell the diesel on your breath from here", about 300 protesters brought a colourful and vocal message to Parliament on Wednesday - they do not want the Government's planned Kapiti Expressway. Opposition parliamentarians addressed the crowd but no-one in the Government.
Waikanae and Paraparaumu are already split literally by State Highway One and the North Island Main Trunk (in both towns running side by side); Steven Joyce's motorway will physically split them again. Forty-three homes will be demolished under the proposal and a further 33 affected under the planned route for the McKays to Peka Peka expressway.
How an intended bypass road for locals between Paraparaumu and Waikanae - the Western Link Road - was turned into one of Mr Joyce's Reichsautobahnen is an involved story, but the constraints of Government finances at present mean that it probably will be a reasonable time into the future before anything happens. (Stuff photo)
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