When you live that far apart, you love your cars. New Zealanders are some of the biggest buyers of cars and owners of cars in the world, and, yet, political leaders from Benito Mussolini to Julie Anne Genter—they love trains. They want trains to be everywhere. So the Government in its various forms has done everything—gone out of its way—to prop up various kinds of rail network in New Zealand, under all sorts of different ownership vehicles, and the only thing that's stayed the same is that it's not viable.