The closure of the Totara River Rail Bridge has cut off the West Coast Wilderness Cycle Trail from Ross, disrupting tourism and local economies, while sparking a campaign to preserve the original bridge as a heritage site.
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Well, you know, they've put up a song and dance uh months ago about what how wonderful this uh future fund is going to be and how it's going to, you know, reinject uh confidence into the business community and what have you. And yet uh they were asked questions this week about so um how is it going to be made up? Where's the money coming from? They said we'll announce the details and the cost to the crown after the election. Well, normally you use the budget uh when the books are open, and you should be in a position to say then uh when things uh going to happen in the future. But this government says not give it trust us at the election. This is Labour Party, of course. Trust us at the election, and uh we'll do what we said we were going to do after the election. It's the most roundabout policy I can recall, a significant policy being made by a political party that really wants to control the Treasury Bench.
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