Lee DeniseDENISE LEE (National—Maungakiekie): Thank you Madam Deputy Speaker. I sat in a room with the likes of the Employers and Manufacturers Association the Chamber of Commerce National Road Carriers and Penrose Business Association and we wanted to hear from Minister Twyford and we did about the East-West Link. If you don't know what that is it's a major road that links up State Highway 1 and State Highway 20 because there are frozen freight—that's the current circumstances right now. We sat in that room in March and we were told that by May we would have four options that we'd all be looking at. That was May a year ago and what has happened since then? Absolutely nothing. We have had nothing. Now if you think that this is just another road—no think again. This area is New Zealand's second-largest contributor to GDP. It is a major engine room of this economy. If you had trucks delayed on Neilson Street alone for 15 minutes every day that's about conservatively $35 million a year of lost productivity. It has taken years to get to this point and a $50 million process to go through the Environmental Protection Authority and get it signed off. So what's happening and what's the plan? Nothing. We've got silence.Meanwhile Minister Twyford and the New Zealand Transport Agency (NZTA) head off in another direction to a small footbridge in the area and that footbridge—they're about to spend $25 million breaking construction ground for that and that was signed off four years ago by the public; consulted four years ago. Now what's wrong with that? I'll tell you what's wrong with that. Since then we've got a $1.8 billion east-west project and a $6 billion light rail project and that footbridge takes neither of those into account. Why are they forging ahead with a footbridge in the same area that does not line up does not match up with billion-dollar projects? What's the plan here? I wouldn't know because I was shut out of a meeting by NZTA to find out what the plan is.This is the so-called year of delivery but more than halfway through this Government's term Phil Twyford has no plan whatsoever for his delivery. Traffic and congestion is lining up and building up in Onehunga and there is no plan. We haven't heard a single thing about their alternative for the East-West Link. Meanwhile 6000 trucks a day are sitting in congestion in this area. They're forced to drive through the suburban streets of Onehunga. We haven't even seen the business case for the $6 billion light rail route. They've realised how difficult and costly it really is. But the one thing that they're doing is pushing ahead with the old Māngere footbridge. They're pushing ahead even though as I said it was designed and consented all the way back in 2016. NZTA have admitted that they haven't taken into account the East-West Link and light rail when pushing ahead with the footbridge. All three projects intersect in the same place—my patch Onehunga right next to the harbour—and there is no alignment between these projects. Phil Twyford's too blinded by his dream for light rail and he's taking a make it up as you go" approach to Onehunga. Well Onehunga deserves better and so does New Zealand because this is a major contributor to the GDP in this country.Finally all politics is local is it not? Countless local intersections in Onehunga that used to be quiet suburban intersections are now experiencing high-risk rat-running seriously unsafe conditions. Here's how I know: I started a petition to fix one of them up. Now I'm pleased to say that Auckland Transport listened to me. Unfortunately Phil Twyford's not listening in a bigger way but Auckland Transport did and that intersection is being fixed up. But it's caused by the congestion of inaction and no plan by Minister Twyford as the Minister of Transport. That intersection is in the top worst intersections of all of Auckland. I've done something about it. What is Phil Twyford doing for the rest of the transport projects? There's a lack of action there's a lack of plan by Minister Twyford. He's outside catching the sun rays while meanwhile a major engine room of New Zealand's economy is grinding to a halt."