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Christopher Luxon

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
316 total appearances

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The Mike Hosking Breakfast
Christopher Luxon: Prime Minister discusses the infrastructure costs and the City Rail Link, citizenship test

I actually think I did read that one because essentially, you know, you can go to, I went to Denmark and you look at Copenhagen to Malmo, they've built what's called the Orason Bridge there.

The Mike Hosking Breakfast
Christopher Luxon: Prime Minister discusses the infrastructure costs and the City Rail Link, citizenship test

That went from idea to finish within four or five years.

The Mike Hosking Breakfast
Christopher Luxon: Prime Minister discusses the infrastructure costs and the City Rail Link, citizenship test

If you look at, there's a metro in Quebec that started about the same time as our light rail project.

The Mike Hosking Breakfast
Christopher Luxon: Prime Minister discusses the infrastructure costs and the City Rail Link, citizenship test

Within five years, people are actually on a light rail using it every day.

The Mike Hosking Breakfast
Christopher Luxon: Prime Minister discusses the infrastructure costs and the City Rail Link, citizenship test

We spend money on infrastructure, but we get a very poor return on it.

The Mike Hosking Breakfast
Christopher Luxon: Prime Minister discusses the infrastructure costs and the City Rail Link, citizenship test

And only if you bring it into even government, how does KO build houses that are 15% more expensive in the market?

The Mike Hosking Breakfast
Christopher Luxon: Prime Minister discusses the infrastructure costs and the City Rail Link, citizenship test

How do we have $1.2 million classrooms that actually when you standardise them, you get the cost down half and you can do twice as many classrooms?

The Mike Hosking Breakfast
Christopher Luxon: Prime Minister discusses the infrastructure costs and the City Rail Link, citizenship test

So I think part of the RMA reforms is all about that.

The Mike Hosking Breakfast
Christopher Luxon: Prime Minister discusses the infrastructure costs and the City Rail Link, citizenship test

Getting rid of regional councils is all part of that.

The Mike Hosking Breakfast
Christopher Luxon: Prime Minister discusses the infrastructure costs and the City Rail Link, citizenship test

We have to get much better and more strategic about our infrastructure planning.

The Mike Hosking Breakfast
Christopher Luxon: Prime Minister discusses the infrastructure costs and the City Rail Link, citizenship test

Well, you've got to say it because if we just leave things as the way they are and keep doing things the way we've always done them, we'll keep getting the same results.

The Mike Hosking Breakfast
Christopher Luxon: Prime Minister discusses the infrastructure costs and the City Rail Link, citizenship test

And so, yeah, part of the reason I've come to politics is because you do believe this country can be innately better.

The Mike Hosking Breakfast
Christopher Luxon: Prime Minister discusses the infrastructure costs and the City Rail Link, citizenship test

There are aspects of the way that Singapore approach infrastructure planning.

The Mike Hosking Breakfast
Christopher Luxon: Prime Minister discusses the infrastructure costs and the City Rail Link, citizenship test

You've seen us try that here with housing in Auckland with a 30-year vision and a plan of where that growth should go to.

The Mike Hosking Breakfast
Christopher Luxon: Prime Minister discusses the infrastructure costs and the City Rail Link, citizenship test

And I get it's a difficult conversation because it's one we haven't had before, but we've got to have them.

The Mike Hosking Breakfast
Christopher Luxon: Prime Minister discusses the infrastructure costs and the City Rail Link, citizenship test

So I think you've got to keep pushing and making the case for it.

The Mike Hosking Breakfast
Christopher Luxon: Prime Minister discusses the infrastructure costs and the City Rail Link, citizenship test

But on the fuel stuff, I'd push back on that.

The Mike Hosking Breakfast
Christopher Luxon: Prime Minister discusses the infrastructure costs and the City Rail Link, citizenship test

I mean, we got organized early.

The Mike Hosking Breakfast
Christopher Luxon: Prime Minister discusses the infrastructure costs and the City Rail Link, citizenship test

We are actually working well with industry.

The Mike Hosking Breakfast
Christopher Luxon: Prime Minister discusses the infrastructure costs and the City Rail Link, citizenship test

I don't know if you saw the poll.