It seems that the suggestion for a private enterprise shortline in our earlier post on this subject has been taken up for serious discussion by Hawke’s Bay Chamber of Commerce CEO Murray Douglas.
According to the Gisborne Herald website:
Mr
Douglas, who was head of Dunedin City Holdings which had a half-share in
the Taieri Gorge Railway, said the numbers to keep the Napier-Gisborne
line open worked well, The Hawke’s Bay Today reported.
“We know
we have an extraordinarily efficient port in Napier and we know we have
huge production coming out of the hills. So if KiwiRail won’t do it,
then why don’t we buy it? It requires courage, it requires vision, it
requires focus but we can do it.
“Fixing the slips is the easy
part of the decision. The hard part is the capital requirements of the
total line for the next 10 years — given that some of the sleepers are a
bit old and some of the bridges might need strengthening.
“It is
inconceivable to have a massively productive part of New Zealand, as it
is in the Hawke’s Bay, without rail. To not have that option is
short-sighted.”
1 comment:
Well done Mr Douglas.Your really showing up the short sightedness and lack of integrity Mr JOYCE AND CO have and whom continually get more cudos from an equally happy go lucky 'I'm all right Jack' PM
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