A few weeks ago when the project was announced again by the finance and infrastructure Minister Robertson, he said it would be another six to eight years and only $15 billion to deliver this project. I'm going to make a prediction about Auckland light rail: this project's going to get an award for the most announced. I'm going to make another prediction: it's never ever going to be delivered. It's going to stall at the planning stage. It's going to stall under the terrible Resource Management Act consenting process. It's going to stall when they try to work out how to relocate hundreds of kilometres of services along the route. It will fail at a cost of billions of dollars to taxpayers. And that is terrible, because we need efficient transport networks. We need good quality public transport to serve our fast-growing cities, to serve growing regions, and in order to support healthy communities and healthy business. 