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Podcast: Canterbury Mornings with John MacDonald
Episode: John MacDonald: Tarras airport pipedream makes no sense for Christchurch
Description: It just doesn’t make sense in any way, shape or form for Christchurch City Council’s airport company to keep up this pipedream of building another airport in Central Otago. Tarras is the location. And you’ll remember how a few years back the airport company bought a fair bit of land down there - 750 hectares. But it wasn’t until media got a whiff of it that it announced - or was forced to announce - its plan to set-up another airport to service Queenstown and Wanaka. It wants a slice of the a...