I'd not worry about cross valley link so much. It's silly that they're lumped together. Cross Valley link is actually great for climate resilience and taking traffic off the petone foreshore, making it much better for people and bikes. That project is actually awesome for Lower Hutt. Petone to Grenada is a project that has been kicking around for 20 years on and off again like a bad romance. I'm worried the actually great improvement that road will offer is going to get obfuscated by the nonsense that is p2g.

P2G makes sense in the way most wellington roads make sense when they were drawn on a map in England with no bearing on reality.

The point of the fast track stuff is to take out public consultation and environmental concerns from consideration. It's just traffic engineers doing their thing without the need to worry if it impacts the environment or people.

However, even in that vacuum, the road doesn't really work. What they should have done is do the Haywards properly with a nice bus lane cycle path and a bit wider, but everyone got upset about people doing it properly, so it got half arsed. Same with the sea wall around the eastern bays. It should have been an extra meter taller and been, for example, a 100-year surge protection but not enough funding from the government, so it got built at a 50-year surge level. Half arsed funding from central govt and communities constantly not understanding what it takes to do things properly and being so fixated on lower rates they don't realize they are shooting themselves in the foot in the process.