Transport commentators respond to Light Rail cancellation
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The government has fulfilled its election promise to cancel city's beleaguered Light Rail project.
The plan had the potential to take up to 14-thousand-500 cars off the road, but the price soared to 14-point-6 billion dollars when it was decided to partly tunnel the rail line.
Matt Lowrie is a transport commentator and editor of the Greater Auckland transport blog.
He spoke to Ben Strang.