Cars waiting to turn right onto SH1 Piarere from SH29. File photo: Mary Anne Gill.
Don Good
Just do it and do it properly.
That’s the message from the Waikato Chamber of Commerce to the incoming government about the Cambridge to Piarere Waikato Expressway extension shelved in 2017.
Discussing a list of items the chamber is lobbying for, chief executive Don Good says “it is not a Waikato project, it is a Road of National Significance and remains a sad example of the previous government’s poor decision making as it stood as a silent but deadly witness to their inability to get simple, common sense things done”.
Good also says the Southern Links road project is one “the whole of the Waikato needs to get in behind”
“The economic benefits locally, regionally and nationally are enormous and long lived,” he says.
He says it will bring the economic benefits to Te Awamutu now enjoyed by Cambridge and open the southwest of Hamilton to the industrial, commercial and residential development already seen in the north.
