Queenstown is set to get a $90 million slice of the Government's $12 billion infrastructure package which was unveiled today. $6.8b has been earmarked for transport infrastructure in the six main growth regions - Auckland, Waikato, Bay of Plenty, Wellington, Canterbury and Queenstown. Grant Robertson called it the biggest boost to infrastructure spending in New Zealand in more than a generation. Careful management of government accounts had allowed the infrastructure spending being announced, he said. Deputy Prime Minister Winston Peters said the programme was the largest infrastructure investment in decades.

Source: Otago Daily Times January 28, 2020 23:26 UTC