Hon MICHAEL WOOD: Wellington was let down for too many years, including by a former Prime Minister who wrote it off as "a dying city". Our Government disagrees with that assessment and is finally making the investments in a transport system fit for a first world, thriving capital city. Anyone who actually knows anything about how major transport programmes work, including how one might go about establishing a mass rapid transit system, will understand that before construction can occur, there needs to be investment in design, planning, and consenting, and that is what we are getting on with. 