Luxon Christopher; Wood MichaelCHRISTOPHER LUXON (National—Botany): Thank you Mr Speaker. And thank you Minister for being here with us this evening. I really appreciate you fronting like this.Can you confirm that the actual cycling and walking bridge is actually dead buried and finished and not going to come back at us? And can you give an account of just how and why it actually broke down and what happened in the 120 days from It's all go" to "It's all been stopped."? And if you did it all again what would you do differently? This is I guess one cluster of thinking.The second is that I'm very conscious there's been $14 million spent on four houses to support that project which is now no longer going ahead. And I can imagine it's pretty disruptive for those families and stressful for those people involved. What actually happens now for those folk and for those people is sort of the first bit of questioning.Hon MICHAEL WOOD (Minister of Transport): As the member will be aware earlier this year when the Government made decisions around rebalancing the New Zealand upgrade programme we did make indicative decisions around how we wanted to improve walking and cycling access across the Waitematā. We said at that point that we would receive further business case work and advice from officials and we received that. That information led us to the conclusion in combination with the fact that it was not a project that received wide support that it was better to invest the majority of that funding into other projects. Projects like the Eastern Busway which the member is familiar with the Glen Innes to Panmure cycling way and an excellent project to give a rail freight hub to the community of Ashburton that'll take a large number of roads off that very congested part of the State highway network. So we made a balanced decision there but we're going to continue working to make sure that we give Aucklanders better access as they want to walk and cycle around the city.CHRISTOPHER LUXON (National—Botany): I'm sort of thinking about a more comprehensive second harbour crossing. I know when we spoke last time you were saying there was—you know working through a range of options as to what the alternatives actually are. What progress on a second harbour crossing has been made since those comments were made? Am I correct in that there's sort of $60 million I think put aside for business case and property acquisition? And I guess the question is given the importance of the project to sort of enable growth and development and housing and other transport in North and South Auckland when I think about the speed of development—say like on the Öresund Bridge between Denmark and Sweden and how fast that went from idea to execution to completion—what can we do to make it a bigger priority and how much faster could we go and how could we accelerate the development of that project?Hon MICHAEL WOOD (Minister of Transport): It is an important strategic project for Auckland. We've already taken steps to bring it forward and the previous iteration of the Auckland Transport Alignment Project (ATAP)—but I think Minister Simon Bridges was responsible for it—was tagged as a project for the 2040s. We've indicated that needs to be brought forward to the 2030s and in this version of ATAP as the member has identified we've invested $60 million into that business case work and initial property acquisition. We've got further work going on at the moment to understand what the options are and it's something I am keen to see that we proceed with as soon as we reasonably can recognising that it's a complex project that needs to tie in to other important parts of the network.One of the areas that the Auckland Light Rail Establishment Unit has explored is the importance of making sure that we develop a linked-up mass rapid transit network for Auckland which involves a bit of planning as to how the city centre to Māngere line a North Shore line and a north-western line could potentially intersect to create a really great network for people. So we'll be bringing that work together in the next phase of work around Auckland light rail and the business case work around the addition of a Waitematā Harbour crossing will continue into next year."