Good News For The Gorge?

The new cabinet has been announced and Gerry Brownlee is the Minister of Transport.

This gives me some hope that a solution to the Manawatu Gorge problem may get greater priority than it did under Steven Joyce.

Although Gerry is still an ‘urban’ MP, he’s not from Auckland and that’s a good start. Further, Gerry’s experience as the Minister for the Canterbury Earthquake Recovery should have shown him the value of working across levels of governance and across party lines to get positive outcomes.

I have heard mixed reviews about Gerry’s performance after the earthquakes but I have heard enough that is positive to believe there might a chance he will work collaboratively to get the result our region needs.