Govt scraps road projects, pledges rail, cycling, walking plans - a podcast by RNZ

The government has pulled a u-turn on transport projects it promised more than a year ago, saying it wants to cut carbon emissions and potential price hikes too.
Six of the 32 multi-billion-dollar projects will not go ahead as planned - after an estimated cost increase of $6 billion across all of them.
Among the downgrades to the promised upgrades are the 22km four-lane expansion of state highway 1 in Northland and South Auckland's controversial Mill Rd.
Instead NorthPort gets a new rail link and South Auckland gets rail upgrades, and walking and cycleways.
But as our political reporter Anneke Smith reports - it is a move neither end of the political spectrum is completely happy with.

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