Photo: Getty ImagesCity councillors say Canterbury has received a “slap in the face” over the Government’s $12 billion nationwide infrastructure package. Canterbury will get $159 million and Queenstown, the only other South Island area to receive any funding, will get $90 million. City councillor Aaron Keown also described it as a slap in the face. Photo: SuppliedChristchurch Central Labour MP Duncan Webb thought it was “churlish” to label the infrastructure injection as a slap in the face. Photo: Supplied“The New Zealand Transport Agency are funding our business cases for transport projects but they shelved it, that is not on us [city council],” she said.

Source: Otago Daily Times January 29, 2020 21:33 UTC