Transport minister and officials did nothing for too longWARWICK SMITH/STUFF Transport Minister Simon Bridges visited Ashhurst and Woodville on Wednesday, and said nothing radical. OPINION: It's hard to argue with the latest utterances of the transport minister about the indefinite closure of the road through the Manawatu Gorge. SUPPLIED A new slip fell on the already-closed Manawatu Gorge road in the weekend. Now, suddenly, the transport agency and the transport minister couldn't just continue with their programme of patch-up jobs and ordering motorists over alternative routes not designed to handle significant volumes of traffic. By now the minister and officials should be talking specifics, but instead their head-in-the-sand approach persisted for too long.

Source: Stuff July 26, 2017 05:03 UTC