Sunday, July 21, 2013

ODT- Dart Milford Tunnel Turned Down

posted to the Otago Daily Times 18 July 2013




And so Nick Smith (the current Chis Carter) turned down the Dart Hollyford Tunnel, now the heat is on to find another way through, Some think an even longer tunnel will be mooted, But I am guessing they will basically Underground the Gondola plan which is a Wider 4 km Tunnel from the Greenstone Valley Paper Road to the Foot of Mt Tolkien where the Milford Road or Highway 94 as they call it now runs between Lake Gunn and Lake Fergus. This will give Queenstown its deep water port so it can tap into the Massive Cruise Ship Market and make it easyer to bus through to Port Chalmers.. It still won’t be much fun for Te Anau or sleepy Kinloch and Glenorchy and will shorten the Greenstone track experience by a good day or so. But the swing is to Cruise Ships today is a fact and the Government will be annoyed that we are missing the boat so to speak.

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