Welcome relief

The recent announcement from Minister of Transport Michael Wood that the Auckland light rail project is to be fully reassessed is a welcome relief for Aucklanders.

Auckland is in dire need of fast, efficient and electrified rapid transit to provide an alternative to congested roads and to reduce carbon emissions.

The fixation with building light rail to the airport needs to dropped and instead the city needs light rail to run along arterial roads of the central city to Mt Roskill and Westgate, where it is really needed to provide more capacity than buses will be able to cope with as the city continues to rapidly grow with intensified development. T Gray, Dannemora