Industrial Expansion of Waikato Continues Bob the Builder can he build it? Well he certainly can’t if we don’t have the concrete and steel to build with available. Nor can we get consumer products including electronics and cars. So we better set up the mines and quarries, build those steel and concrete plants, line up […]
Industry powers the city while I need 13,000 new working residents for Waikato The Drill Baby Drill MAGA and Shane Jones bravado aside, resources and subsequent industry are often the primary reason cities are founded, live, and sometimes die (if the resource is depleted or deindustrialisation went horridly wrong and urban renewal did not happen […]
Time for those Bridges, Ports, Railways and Highways Bridges, Ports, Railways, and Highways. No endless business cases, no political partisan pontification, no dithering apart from a fast growing city catching me a tad short. Just a spatial plan, a long-term-plan, and some serious construction! With Waikato hitting 60,000 (large town or small city status) it […]
Time for our first review, talking expansion, and some more chaotic driving again Our first cims and businesses have settled in, and Waikato has exploded already to nearly 50,000 cims. That puts it on large town – small city status already, and that means I have my work cut out. But let’s take a look […]
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