Of all the ways to lose your business

Sunday column

The ribbon is cut at last on Transmission Gully.

Hello swift exit to Paekakariki, farewell Mana and Plimmerton and Pukerua Bay. When shall we meet again? 

Every time a streamline is given to State Highway One, something is set to one side. It may be a little hamlet, it may be a lot of Hamilton.

What a varied great main artery it is: sclerotic in Auckland,…