Rail double tracking plans halt cycleway pushCOLIN WILLIAMS/STUFF Upper Hutt mayor Wayne Guppy in 2014 when the now delayed rail corridor project was announced. Any start to the $3 million corridor cycleway from Silverstream to Upper Hutt could now be four years away, a decision that has angered Upper Hutt mayor Wayne Guppy. That included the long planned double tracking to solve service and efficiency problems on a line which also served the Wairarapa. Any decision to do the double tracking in the future has always been a part of it so it is not an excuse." "From an Upper Hutt standpoint we want both things but we desperately need the double tracking," the city's only representative on the regional council said.

Source: Stuff November 30, 2017 20:03 UTC